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."

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ZOMG!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

The Illuminati, they're here!!!! Run!

Hooray!

[Wyatt Earp]

I guess having the TelCos decide what can and can't be on the Internet is right up the Teabagger's alley when it comes to "smaller government".

Re:Hooray!

[spitzak]

Relax. In his world, any pollution produced by any company that is subject to *any* law whatsoever (such as income tax...) means that all that pollution is actually caused by the government. Logic does not enter into this discussion.

Re:Hooray!

[jmorris42]

> It doesn't help that net neutrality as a concept has just started to come to public attention
> around the same time that Democrats are trying to re-introduce the "fairness doctrine" to wield
> against their supposed foes, conservatives in "talk radio."

We aren't confusing anything. We know 'network neutrality' as currently proposed comes straight from Free Press. It is evil enough, but it is just part of the almost endless series of interlocking NGOs that make up the Progressive conspiracy. It ties directly into Media Matters, Soros and the whole sick bunch of socialists, marxists and maoists clustered around President Obama. Start with the FCC Chair. Go ahead, Google him a bit. Goes back to Harvard Law Review with Obama. Just read this clown's bio on Wikipedia (yea, I know about overly trusting Wikipedia) and it reads like a typical scion of old money who went communist in college and lives an elite life of idle makework drifing from one boardroom to another keeping the right people sliding further along on the long march through the institutions. Or take the FCC "Diversity Czar", Mark Lloyd, another marxist piece of Unamerican filth.

We would have to be insane to let these barbarians[1] anywhere something as wonderful as the Internet, they are already close enough as is. Yes the government monopoly telco and cable 'companies' are bad, but giving the government (any government, this one is just the worst in a generation) something so important to screw up is daft.

[1] In a way all socialists are barbarians in that they seek to control or destroy things they could never create themselves.

Re:Hooray!

[BlueStrat]

I doubt you have ever talked to a resident there in their native tongue. Until you have done that, you haven't watched anything, you just read someone elses opinion or presentation of it and latched on to it because thats easier than getting the experience yourself and forming your own thoughts on the situation.

Besides apparently being an apologist for the murdering Socialist thug Chavez, you also stepped in it with this one. I lived and worked for 4-plus years alongside Venezuelans in Venezuela at an aircraft/avionics maintenance FBO, still have good friends there, so you can stick that fake concern for the "will of the Venezuelan people" and the holier-than-thou, elitist superior attitude in your network port. Chavez is a monster of the worst sort.

Progressiveism/Socialism doesn't work, never has, never will. There would need to exist perfectly moral people with no faults like greed or power-lust for any Progressive/Socialist centrally-controlled government not to devolve into the stuff of nightmares like genocide, police-state hell, dictatorships, civil war, revolts, etc. History is full of such. Almost every time, for a few decades and/or a generation or two or three, people are alert and aware. Then, they forget and the Socialist Ponzi scheme of power & greed starts all over.

Right now, the Progressive/Socialist-run European countries like Greece, Spain, France, Germany, etc are sliding into economic collapse because of Progressive/Socialist policies, and yet this administration and Congress are hellbent on implementing the same failed policies & reforms here that are collapsing those countries from within and causing widespread violence in the streets.

The Progressives/Socialists know this is coming and are setting up a framework of control that will take over once the collapse has weakened the Federal government. The ability to control both the mainstream media and the internet is crucial to suppress opposition. This initial establishment of the governments' power to regulate & control the internet is just a start.

Then it won't be just BP that will get a "boot on the throat", to quote Whitehouse Press Secretary Robert Gibbs at a recent Whitehouse press briefing. Because, as another Obama administration lackey was quoted as saying in a speech; "We understand that political power comes mostly from the barrel of a gun". That should scare the crap out of anyone who is paying attention.

"It's all Progressive fun and games until people get their lives and their freedom taken away."-BlueStrat

Strat

Re:Hooray!

[Anonymous Coward]

Any time there has ever been a healthy, prosperous, happy society it has been because of private property and free trade, a.k.a. the invisible hand. If you weren't such an ignoramus you'd realize that.

You have to realize that there is always an issue of trade-offs. Do you want a clean river or do you want all the great stuff that those factories produced? (which, by the way, are still polluting, they just moved to China because they couldn't afford our environmental regulations). So, really, what good have the regulations done? They moved the pollution (and the productivity) elsewhere. Hooray! Now when China finally realizes our government is broke and stops lending us free manufactured goods, we won't have any factories over here to pick up the slack.

Congratulations, socialism, you just bankrupted another society!

Re:Hooray!

[Naturalis Philosopho]

Insightful? Last I knew you were just as free as everyone else in the U.S. to write your representatives and have your voice added to the opinions being heard, and that's hardly news. That's the thing about the "Democracy" you righty whiners are always on about spreading across the world; when you're in the minority you still have to put up with the results, but you can organize and try to change the situation. You don't like something? Then do get a coalition together and take a few years to build a movement to change what you don't like! As for GP, perhaps his statement could be rephrased as 'we should have a say what it is used for'. It's not "tenuous reasoning", and it's damn well not "insightful", it's how we run our government and how we're setting up governments in the countries which we've taken over.

BTW, I love the way you pretend that it's a big secret that public money goes to NPR. It's only a secret to someone who's never heard their constant underwriting messages.

Re:It's no secret

[interkin3tic]

This isn't so much about Net Neutrality as it is about them not wanting the government to have control of the situation

Come on, man, your bosses at comcast are expecting a better effort than that!

Re:It's no secret

[Bing Tsher E]

We're not ignoring history. We're just observing people out there 'trying to fix it' again, like happened repeatedly in the 20th Century, with very messy results. In fact, we're very cognizant of history, and see no reason to repeat it. Your old big Government ideas are discredited.

Re:Since when were ISPs the bad guys?

[h4rr4r]

If you think they are far left you might want to try traveling the world a little. You sort of uneducated rant makes me sad for this nation.

Oh noes they want to ensure that TWC does not drop the packets to vonage, the bastards! TWC has always been so good to us, our corporate masters are what make teh intertubes.

Re:A La Carte

[Anonymous Coward]

Now honestly, guys. +Informative? Seriously? Wild ass speculation is modded informative? +Funny sure, but is FUD from Slashdot users any better then the crap we get from the **aa's, et al? Get real.