Comments on: America unites against Obama on Net Neutrality

By: justpassingby

justpassingby — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:52:27 +0000

I understand quite well how a government is supposed to work. Corporations practically own most of the people in congress. You mean to imply to me that corporations don’t spend millions of dollars toward politicians to not have legislation that falls in favor of them? Corporations DO have the force of law via lobbyists and “contributions”. You can’t expect me to believe that corporations have no clout on the hill.

I do suppose my thinking on that was a bit flawed due to the fact that a company can charge and make changes to the service it provides you, you can choose not to use it. Sadly though there are areas of the country where there is only one provider of internet, so that case your pretty much locked in.

By: Finrod

Finrod — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:23:22 +0000

I read the EFF statement; they’re concerned about both conservatives that would want to regulate the Internet to enforce decency standards, and Hollywood that would want to regulate the Internet to their own financial benefit. While not all or even most conservatives would want to regulate the Internet to enforce decency, some would; I seem to recall one front-pager here that would like to see the death penalty for pornographers, and we all know the Internet has been filled with pornography for a very long time, certainly since before I first got onto the Internet back in 1987. So while the EFF may be overly concerned about how conservatives would regulate the Internet, their concern is not completely misplaced.

The fact that the EFF would rather defeat net neutrality than see it implemented in a bad way puts them ahead of pretty much everyone in power in the Democratic Party.

By: Hooah_Mac

Hooah_Mac — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:24:35 +0000

Gov’t or the corporations – it is not the same thing.

The government has the force of law. Corporations do not. It is that simple.

By: justpassingby

justpassingby — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:19:34 +0000

You guys are against net neutrality? You’re ok with you’re ISP having tiered access? Only allowing you to access certain sites in certain priced tiers? Your ok with allowing the ISP to censor what you can view on the internet? Allowing a corporation to have the power to control what they think is ok for us to see. Hmmmmm sounds just as bad as all the talk that i read on here of Obama’s “control”. If your lives are controlled by the gov’t or the corporations….its the same thing.

By: Neil Stevens

Neil Stevens — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:17:31 +0000

If Obama gets his hands on the Internet, dial-up access won’t be immune to the consequences.

By: Neil Stevens

Neil Stevens — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:56:23 +0000

Obama people: Good, kind, and freedom-loving
Republicans: Wicked censors

By: JLenardDetroit

JLenardDetroit — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:38:10 +0000

well need them soon in order to keep Outposts of Freedom and TRUTH as we return to Dial-up Servers to run BBS style RedStates across the country.

I only wish I were making a funny

By: Finrod

Finrod — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:41:05 +0000

The EFF tends to be more true to its mission than the ACLU is. The ACLU, while claiming to be the protector of the Bill of Rights, tries to pretend that the Second Amendment doesn’t exist, plus it has a history of ignoring its own principles for its own self-promotion. Until the recent situation with the Chamber of Commerce, I hadn’t seen a major position that the EFF took that I had a serious disagreement with.

By: melvinwinter

melvinwinter — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:35:05 +0000

The face of net neutrality: http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-convention-delegates-to.html

By: kyle8

kyle8 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:55:45 +0000

I have come to the conclusion that they are like silly angry college students who think that everything ought to be free or subsidized. (except of course anything they create).

They really look at copyrights as an anachronism and do not mind stealing from anywhere, there is no honesty, or fore thought, only their own pure selfishness.

By: DerKrieger

DerKrieger — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:40:32 +0000

that the EFF is on the Right side. After all the Left believes the Internet to be a public good requiring equal access for all rather than a commercial enterprise where you pay for access and speed on a scale that reflects your use. Interesting.