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McCain on Net Neutrality, Copyright, Iraq
An anonymous reader writes "Sen. John McCain kicked off the All Things Digital conference Tuesday night with some interesting comments about net neutrality among other things. His take: there should be as little government regulation of broadband as possible. The market should be allowed to solve the Net-neutrality issue: 'When you control the pipe you should be able to get profit from your investment.'"
In most locales, these are illegal, so the mafia which transacts in them is also illegal. If the mafia limited themselves to transacting these commodities where they were legal, and did not use assault and murder to maintain their business, they would in fact be quite legal.
The internet is mostly legal - and by "extortion", do you perhaps mean withholding their product from people who do not pay for it? Barring what the government determines to be "monopolistic practices", trading in internet bandwidth (a legal commodity) is entirely legal and consistent with other U.S. laws.
Disclaimer: I'm not necessarily against (or for) net neutrality, so don't assume. I just think that drawing these kinds of parallels between ISPs and the mafia is not accurate, and does an injustice to a very complex issue. A better analogy would be Microsoft, who has classically used commodities that it [usually] owns to lord over people in unwholesome ways.
You have been trolled, a now so have I:
Do not forget that it was the French that bailed US out of our revolutionary war. Without France, the United States would not exist, and that is a fact.
You right to do as you wish with your property ends where that conflicts with my rights.
If you can't understand that, you'll never understand basic Civics and you'll forever be a slave to people who do not have your best interests in mind.
I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
Well, no.
You see, the French Revolution didn't actually occur until around 1789. That was 17 years after America's Declaration of Independence(1776). So in reality, a lot of the French Revolution actually was sparked by the American Revolution.
The French did shit except decimate the British fleet after we had already won so they couldn't run away back to England, nothing more nothing less.
And for the record the US did jackshit when it came to winning WW2 in Europe, the Russians were already on the offensive and would have steamrolled Hitler's troops all the way to Spain in a matter of months/years with or without D-Day or a second front being opened.