reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
I think it's misleading to as the best form of control ultimately is a free internet that everyone voluntarily attaches them selves grid like
too.
perhaps many of you don't know what net neutrality really is?
It doesn't seek to take away any individuals freedom of speech...it's telling companies like Comcast and Verizon that they're not allowed to
discriminate certain users
here's a snippet:
Network neutrality (also net neutrality, Internet neutrality) is a principle proposed for residential broadband networks and potentially for all
networks. A neutral broadband network is one that is free of restrictions on content, sites, or platforms, on the kinds of equipment that may be
attached, and on the modes of communication allowed, as well as one where communication is not unreasonably degraded by other communication
streams.[1][2][3]
The principle states that if a given user pays for a certain level of internet access, and another user pays for a given level of access, that the two
users should be able to connect to each other at that given rate of access.
source
personally - i think it's a good thing.
Why?
Because i don't want AT&T restricting my iphone access to a microsoft website.
I don't want my Comcast cable internet forbidding me to visit a competitors website.
As the law stands right now - they can do all of that - and have done it before.
This is another classic example that goes to show you that Republicans hate Obama more than they love America. By trying to block this bill -
Republicans are saying that it's okay for private business to restrict your internet access to another user. They tried this a while back with P2P
connections and
bittorrent
This bill aims to give you and I more anonymity on the internet...and John McCain wants to prevent that.
Maybe comcast will finally let me have that full bandwidth i've been paying for all these years.
from Skeptic Overlord:
Because at the time, it had not yet been politicized by blatant lies from the conservative madmen hell-bent on resisting anything and
everything that appears to come from this administration -- even though the Network Neutrality proposals began as far back as 2005.
Exactly.
[edit on 24-10-2009 by Snarf]
Originally posted by Fromabove
Freedom is in jeopardy. But if they can block free speech they can then do as they please. They don't call them czars for nothing. And yes, every
single time.
*sigh*
[edit on 24-10-2009 by Snarf]
I agree 100% with the FCC
draft proposal, I did not agree with what had been put out as "riders" which could have in the end been more damaging, but again, if all the FCC is
doing is sticking to the draft proposal to keep monopolies from forming and restricting bandwith etc, then I am all for it and will back down. 
