The FCC should have no control over the Internet. It’s privately owned. I add whatever content I want, and it’s what the First Amendment is all about.

The FCC should have less power, not more. We’re no longer restricted to just ABC, NBC, and CBS. We have a range of choices.

If the FCC succeeds in this, they will close down the “hate” sites (as the FCC defines that) and it’s a slippery slope to losing all our freedoms.

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… is that if you ask them whether buses should get an advantage in traffic management schemes such as Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) plans or High-Occupancy Vehicle (HOV – they love their acronyms lol) lanes, you’ll get them all frothed up about how that’s an entirely different issue and of course we should have those things to preserve the environment because shut up we’re awesome and WE WON.

When really, it’s the same idea: a company ought to be able to manage traffic on its systems however it wants. If Comcast wants to give NBC priority because they own NBC now, that’s fine for them. It does not necessarily mean that a specific competitor such as Fox or ABC will receive explicitly poorer treatment than say CBS – it just means that NBC gets a step up and all others operate at a different level.

Look, networks are expensive. It takes a lot of time, money, effort and real talent to get them working at all, let alone keeping them running 24/7/365 with little to no downtime or interference or problems – and that’s without unforeseen issues such as horrible weather, faulty systems, IT staff pissing contests, downed power lines, riots, and so on and so forth. It’s entirely justified for a company to want to see a return on that investment, especially if some freeloading hippie decided it was OK to download that new pornographic Japanese film , the whole series of Lost, Star Trek: Voyager, Firefly, and one copy each of Microsoft’s newest operating systems (in unreleased beta, of course) all at once while his neighbor is trying to watch the “All Of Your Base” video remixed with cats instead of people and trying to rickroll his cousin at the same time. Yeah, all of that? That’ll take down a local network VERY quickly – forget the strain it puts on outside ISPs who have to handle the relay traffic (stuff going back and forth between the origin point, wherever it is, and the destination ISP) and all of their equipment as well.

Besides, even if these companies wanted to do something like traffic management, they’d have to be VERY careful about it, or risk all of the aforementioned hippies and cat viewers blowing up faster than Michael Moore at a grease truck.

anythng.

http://dnsbl.invaluement.com/spam-blocker/net-neutrality-revisited/

Should we keep our old exercycles to power the short wave? To hear the voices of freedom? “No!” According to geek friends. New communication means is in refinement. He wouldn’t expound. I sure hope he’s right.

thrown out of court a second time… I look forward to reading a statement from the SCOTUS quoting Lincoln’s renaming the tail on a dog to a leg analogy (or something similar).