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UK Government Wants To Kill Net Neutrality In EU
Glyn Moody writes "Not content with snooping on all Internet activity, the UK government now wants to introduce changes to the contentious EU Telecoms Package, which will kill net neutrality in the EU: 'Amendments to the Telecoms Package circulated in Brussels by the UK government, seek to cross out users' rights to access and distribute Internet content and services. And they want to replace it with a "principle" that users can be told not only the conditions for access, but also the conditions for the use of applications and services. The amendments, if carried, would reverse the principle of end-to-end connectivity which has underpinned not only the Internet, but also European telecommunications policy, to date.' To add to the irony, an accompanying text cuts and pastes from Wikipedia, without attribution."
They know what is best for people and if we ignore what they tell us to do then its because we haven't understood rather than us having understood and rejected the advice
Liberals: They know what is best for you AND your money (or so they always claim) so if you like someone else to be in control of every meaningful detail of your life then just keep voting Labour because after all, they really do know what is best for you just like mum always did...right.
Fortunately, they are'nt as far along here in the United States as they are in Britain, but with Obama on board now we are pressing full steam ahead into a socialist trainwreck; boldy going down the path toward economic stagnation that has always gone hand and glove with the notion of, "spreading the wealth around". It didn't work for Russia, it didn't work for Cuba, it is'nt working for Bolivia or Venezuela or any other latin American country that has tried it and it won't work for us. Unfortunately, the young people of America seem determined to learn this lesson for themselves first hand and the hard way and by the time they realize that it isn't working we will have wasted another decade as a socialist backwater. If mega-beauracracy and socialism were the answers to the problems of the world then all of them would have been solved in the first half of the last century.
Perhaps their will be enough of us Libertarians and Ron Paul Revolutionaries to keep the torch of economic freedom from sputtering out completely in the midst of resurgent socialism, but I will take little comfort from being able to tell my Liberal friends, "See, I told you so" ten years from now when we are all poorer, less competitive, and worn out from our collective experiment in "21st century" socialism. Hint to the socialists: it didn't fail last century because socialists were not meticulous or scientific enough about organizing their governments. What makes you think it will be any different this time around?
The UK is also banning people from their country because of their opinion: Dutch anti-Islam MP barred from UK.
The man banned is an elected parliamentarian with strong views from the Netherlands. He was banned because his presence would pose a "genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat to one of the fundamental interests of society". All he would be doing would be showing a film. In this film, he makes the claim that the Kuran incites violence. A very obvious claim given the clear text in the book.
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