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The Telcos' Secret Anti-Net Neutrality Strategy
NoMoreHelio writes "The political blog ThinkProgress lays out big telecom's plan to attack net neutality. The blog obtained a secret PowerPoint presentation from a telecommunications industry front group (PPT) that outlines the industry strategy for defending against regulatory attempts by the FCC. The industry plans to partner with two conservative 'astroturfing' groups, best known for their work seeding the Tea Party movement. Today's revelation from ThinkProgress comes as Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL) joined various telecom-funded front groups to unveil an anti-net neutrality bill."
While I am for net-neutrality, and we do need some form of regulation on the internet to keep the providers fair and clean, do not, and I repeat, do not assume that the government is pushing net neutrality for the purpose of helping you. There have been many times in the United States where our government will push something like Social Security, saying "This is to help the widows with children", which, yes, is a noble cause that many can't argue with. But look at it now, it is a system used to hook the societal leeches and give paychecks to fat-asses who are too lazy to get up and work.
My point it, watch the other hand. History shows that while on the surface what Uncle Sugar is doing may seem beneficial to average Joe, there sure as hell are things going on behind the scenes that I guarantee will hurt you personally in the long run.
Let me restate, we do need some regulation regarding the neutrality of the internet, but there are ulterior motives most likely at hand. In 10 years, do you think it is that out of the question that your tax money will be used to subsidize lower-class internet connections? What do you think all those extra FCC related charges are on your cell bill.
Also, you do not have a god given right to the internet. But you do have a say in it if you contribute. Your taxes subsidize infrastructure grants that go to these companies, and when these companies are limiting freedom of speech through their filtering agendas, then yes, there is an argument. But watch the other hand.
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So? What's wrong with that? Do you actually believe that government control never leads to unforeseen problems? And really? Telco's only? Many places have copper pair, coax, satellite, and cell network access to the Internet. Not to mention many large cities are now getting fiber. In the office building I work at an ISP pulled fiber to the building (10GbE) and is offering business class 100mbit/s service for $800/month. The closest thing to that previously was 10mbit/s10base-TL service (kind of a super DSL) for $900/month.
I think most of the wining is people that want to p2p a lot and complain that they get shutdown. If you want a network what services 100% of bandwidth to all customers 100% of the time, go build one.
They are against government doing things for other people. Note that they blaim Obama for the rescue plan, that was enacted by Bush and the result of republican policies, the neo-conservative movement started with Reagan.
The most important skill in politics is NEVER to take the word of a party about what it stands for. You don't believe countries with the word democratic in their name are democracies do you?
It is like financial regulation, the banks are dead against that, but want very strict laws that enable them to collect on debts. Freedom is me telling you what I can do and you can't.
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They only elected GWB once. The first time the Supreme Court elected him by saying speed was more important than accuracy in voting.
As a side note, the first election of GWB was the first time in history that a Republican got 100% of the black vote in the venue of record...
And Again, with less invective: the first election we didn't really know what a disaster GWB would have been as a president. If he haddent got a bump because of his own incompetence basically allowing 9/11 he would have been on vacation the whole time. It's the second election that I find so fascinating. It was the electoral equivalent of throwing good money after bad. Kinda the electoral precursor mindset that the sub prime events pivoted upon.
Then again, this is the second cycle of the same mess, so I register no surprise at all.
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