Great... one step closer to george orwells 1984

 

kik

 

lol

 

Because the cable companies have already started to try to:

• tier Internet service
• meter Internet access

They currently also:

• Do not provide the advertised speed
• Have throttled traffic

Not that I expect the geriatrics to understand any of this :roll:

 

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damnnnnnnnnn !!!!!!!!!

 

I would turn that around on you, Ace. You just can't come to grips with the idea that something the federal government does might actually be good. So the moment someone utters the word "regulation", you have this Pavlovian reaction.

 

File sharing is not an example of what I mean by internet neutrality. I don't think people have the right to reproduce and distribute copyrighted material freely.

 

And this does have something to do with neutrality.

If I read the anti's correctly, they are concerned that the regulation will squelch development of innovative and competitive systems. Most of the concerns for the regulations seem to be grounded in the 90's.

Which is exactly what the federally regulated telephone industry did. Not that the youth of the US would remember any of that.

 

Ten years ago a gigabye was huge; a value nobody ever had access to.


Now we probably use more than a gigabyte of data watching HD youtube videos for a few hours.

If the ISPs had the same methods that they want to introduce in the 90's, it's unlikely they would increase the cap (as evidenced by the 3G/4G networks) and we wouldn't have sites like hulu, netflix, or youtube.

Every time I see someone say "everything's fine right now!!!!!!! gov'ment ruining errything!!!!11," it really just shows how little that person knows about the topic. Not surprisingly, this is always followed my "reglations stiffle comptition," which is, of course.. another talking point.


ISPs have a history of ripping us off. There is very little competition. There is very little reinvestment. You never get what you pay for, and they're always trying to force you to pay more for less.


Business is not God, tenguy.

 

Because all file sharing is illegal

 

No shit?

Business is not God? Wow such a huge revelation for a puppy.

In the mean time, tell me how the average user is going to access the internet, if it were not for the ISPs. Tell me about the wired and wireless connections that are not ultimately served by one.

Innovation in the internet did not come about because of government surveillance.

 

This seems like a goofy panty-bunching exercise since the actual text of the regulation is impossible to find I'll withhold opinion until I can see with my own two eyes what it says, and doesn't say - so far all I have found is highly biased opinion pieces on either a) the death of the internet or b) the death of liberty or c) the triumph of capitalism. What silliness.

 

Likewise, it is curious why the regulations have not been posted. The rise in speculation is growing by the minute.

 

The courts cut this down, congress cut this down also and what does the community organizer do. He takes over yet another part of the economy.
Everything this government gets involved with screws it up. Look at the postal service, or motor vehicles??

He has taken over health care (just wait until you need a transplant or a lot of care, you might as well put a gun to your head. If we can still have them)

Then the car industry, lets see how that worked out, 500 million to the Korea's to make batteries (no American jobs there) then to try and get people to but the clown car 7,500 incentive on a 40,000 care. Now it turns out that the government (You and me) bought 25,000 of these pieces of crap. And GM has yet to pay back all they borrowed.

Then this TARP more then half that money went over seas. And they still did not fix the start of this. Fannie and Freddie.

So yea lets give ole ears more power. He wants to be a dictator.

If you love the government, just look overseas and see what will come here if they have their way.

As I said before by the time ears is done we will be raising our right hands and saying heil obama.

 

mindless rant is mindless

any excuse to vent, eh? :lol: I'll bet you have absolutely no idea what this regulation is about, what it will or wont do, when it takes effect, how it might effect individuals or commerce . . .

 

Well it seems you have difficulty in understanding it...

Um, you're the one worshipping business. I'm not quite sure if you understood what I was saying and made a piss-poor attempt to manipulate it, or if you're just an idiot.

Relevance...?

Innovation in the Internet came about because of government research, subsidies, etc. The fact that you don't know this futher demonstrates that you have no clue what you're talking about.


Seriously, tenguy, just give up.

 

Franken says internet as we know it is still at risk

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-franken/the-internet-as-we-know-i_b_800159.html