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Al Franken Makes a Case For Net Neutrality
jomama717 writes "In a post titled 'The Most Important Free Speech Issue of Our Time' this morning on The Huffington Post, Senator Al Franken lays down a powerful case for net neutrality, as well as a grim scenario if the current draft regulations being considered by the FCC are accepted. Quoting: 'The good news is that the Federal Communications Commission has the power to issue regulations that protect net neutrality. The bad news is that draft regulations written by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski don't do that at all. They're worse than nothing. That's why Tuesday is such an important day. The FCC will be meeting to discuss those regulations, and we must make sure that its members understand that allowing corporations to control the Internet is simply unacceptable. Although Chairman Genachowski's draft Order has not been made public, early reports make clear that it falls far short of protecting net neutrality.'"
No, but *Comedians* on the other hand are more than qualified :)
If you think for a minute that people like Franken give a rip about an open free internet, you are absolutely crazy.
Are people with different priorities than yours always secret diabolical agents of communism, or is that just a Mondays thing?
It does not necessarily follow that he actually has a developed sense of humor
No, but it does necessarily follow that a writer and comedian for SNL in the 1970s would not only have had to have a sense of humor, but some intelligence as well.
A joke about s0204 and dihydrogen oxide isn't exectly a Jeff Foxworthy joke. If you think a joke about s0204 and dihydrogen oxide is like a Jeff Foxworthy joke, you just might be a redneck!
Free Martian Whores!
As long as he brings his writers with him.