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FCC Commissioner Urges, Don't Regulate the Internet
Brett Glass writes "In an op-ed in today's Washington Post, FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell makes a case against government regulation of the Internet, opining that 'engineers, not politicians or bureaucrats, should solve engineering problems.' With state governments pressuring ISPs to pull the plug on Usenet, and a proposal now in play for a censored public Internet, McDowell may have a very good point." McDowell is one of the two FCC commissioners who did not vote with the majority to punish Comcast for their BitTorrent throttling.
STFU and go get an education. Goddammit, I am so sick of you "free market" wackos. For the LAST FUCKING TIME: A truly free market requires regulation, otherwise it's only free for rich entities. It takes a real moron to not see that. And we have far too many of you real morons in the US already.
"If they took the publics' money then they are obligated to put the interests of those taxpayers (their customers) at the top of their objectives."
You see, this is why you should never take government money. You will go in with a certain set of requirements and restrictions, which you agreed to, and over time people will say "well we gave you money, so it's okay for us to change the terms of the agreement". No it is not fucking okay. Hello! What makes that okay? This is the same reason I will never ask for anything from my mother.