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Obama & McCain Conflicting On Net Neutrality
longacre writes "For all their incessant bickering in the first two presidential debates over conflicts of interest and government regulation, PopMech columnist Glenn Derene is puzzled that the candidates have yet to be challenged on a vital issue directly related to both those topics: Net neutrality. John McCain and Barack Obama have stated elsewhere their opposing views on the issue, with McCain being opposed to Net neutrality and favoring light regulation of the Internet, while Obama is in favor of neutrality and seeks Government involvement. In any case, since there is no standard accepted definition of 'network neutrality,' until the candidates elaborate on their positions (which they both declined to do for this piece, nor anywhere else so far, for that matter), 'both sides can make a credible case that they're the ones defending freedom of innovation and open communication.'"
In the end they'll BOTH control the internet, just in different fashions:
- McCain will want to block obscene pictures and movies, same as he does on cable or free television
- Obama will allow those movies, but instead he'll setup a regulated Uncle Sam monopoly - thereby stifling freedom-of-choice.
I don't know where ye stand, but as for me, I don't like either candidate's dictatorial method of running private citizens' lives (I'm speaking in general, not just the internet). The only thing going for McCain is that he's less dictatorial than Obama, but they are both still too controlling for my taste.
The government is not your daddy. Its purpose is not to raid middle-class neighbors' wallets and give it to you.
I'm having a hard time visualizing someone more liberal than Obama (who supports an Uncle Sam Hospital monopoly), unless the guy's name was Lenin, Marx, or Engels.
The government is not your daddy. Its purpose is not to raid middle-class neighbors' wallets and give it to you.
fascism is a type of socialism! how can someone as smart as you not get that??
"Everything within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State. --Mussolini
QED motherfucker.
THL phish sticks