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Why Is the Internet Association Rewarding a Pro-NSA Net-Neutrality Opponent?
First time accepted submitter erier2003 writes The decision to give a major award to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy is curious given McCarthy's many questionable stances on Internet-freedom issues. For one thing, the California congressman is an avowed opponent of net neutrality. In May 2014, as the Federal Communications Commission debated new net neutrality rules, McCarthy—then the House Majority Whip, the chamber's third-highest-ranking member—signed a House GOP letter to the FCC warning that Title II regulation represented "a counterproductive effort to even further regulate the Internet."
...and content control because the proposed rules allow for that.
I don't know anything about this "Internet Association", but given that the name really doesn't mean anything at all, if they are anti-net-neutrality then maybe they're pro-network-business, and as such they're trying to profit from both ends?
Just a guess. After all, I can name any organization anything that I want, even if that name is Orwellian doublespeak for exactly the opposite of what it sounds like it should be.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
What with all the politics today?
why more government control of the Internet is a good thing. Their kind rejects any government control as a bad thing. It isn't. Look at how much things have improved since the Democrats got their way and gave the FCC a lot more power.
Welcome to Orwell's world, where statist enforcement is called "freedom".
Such opposition to the government's attempts to force ISPs to do certain things alone makes one a freedom-fighter in my book.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
The Internet Association -- which counts tech giants like Amazon, Etsy, Facebook, Google, Reddit, and Twitter among its members...
Because these companies have no interest in internet freedom as it pertains to their cattle but as it pertains to fourth quarter earnings. The internet based on these companies is a cash-in-hand libertarian pelvic thrust of states that dont see a red-cent of sales tax on anything from a website, keep their warrantless surveillance quiet, and rubberstamp their patents with a smile. This isnt an award, so much as a dollop of warm grease on an open republican wheel. this group quietly gave an award to McCarthy, the second most powerful House Republican after Speaker John Boehner, because they have a PAC that hasnt donated yet and are making it known to anyone looking for upcoming election year bucks.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Maybe this is some sort of new cutting edge format sitcom, this is just the first episode.
Is it because they're whores and will do anything for loose change? That's pretty much my standard answer for any headline in the format "Why is blank blanking?"
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Directed at Rep. McCarthy.
Seriously why not just have our political process switch to largest angry mob with torches.
"The Internet Association represents America’s leading Internet companies and their global community of users." - Their members are companies that would hurt without Net Neutrality.
Why honor them? Perhaps because net neutrality proponents are high-demand Internet users who want to stick everyone else with the cost of their service. That means raising the bills of people who can hardly afford to pay more and meaning that some won't be able to afford broadband.
A better question might be who is the Internet Association? They certainly aren't part of the internet's governing bodies. Why should we give two cents for what they think or who they give awards to?
Who cares what it is called when it paves the way for new taxes. The 1% doesn't pay their fair share of the Internet. We need to make that happen. Giving the FCC more control of the Internet and adding a pile (one estimate I read was nearly 500k pages) of new regulation via their reclassification makes it more expensive to run an ISP. That is a good thing. We want to punish Comcast and their ilk. We need to make it horrifically expensive to do anything.
The IA is just doing business the Old Fashion way (after a few rounds of 'Old Fashion's).
Next year, instead of the "award" they will send over a buxom prostitute with her XXX size bra and thongie panties stuffed with Benjamins.
Ha ha
Perhaps you ought to re-read some of Orwell's works...
The problem in Orwell's world of 1984 isn't the "statist enforcement", but rather that the state enforces rules for the purpose of oppressing the majority of the population. Ingsoc's rules and systems are not in themselves harmful. In fact, several times throughout the book, some of the most vile mechanisms are described only as the result of rumors.
Here in the real world, there is no absolute freedom. There is only what you want to do and what others want you to do. When those desires are opposed, someone's freedom will be impeded. If you want to kill me, and I want to live, we turn to the state (as an embodiment of the consensus of the submitting population) to decide who will be able to fulfill their desires. If you want to build a networking monopoly and charge high rates for access to popular web sites, and I want cheap access to everything, we again turn to the state, who has now declared a preference for cases like this.
While reading, be sure to note how the Inner Party is not subject to most of the oppressive rules of the system. They are not subject to the state; the state is subject to their whims.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
The people who praise 'Internet Neutrality' make me sick. 'Patriot Act' or whatever, give it a sweet name and get you some real thinkers to make the case for you. Anyone have a copy of this legislation by mandate in search of a problem?
'I don't know what it's called. I just know the sound it makes, when it takes a man's life.' ~ Four Leaf Tayback
Because the NSA has photographs from the last Internet Association post trade show party.
Have gnu, will travel.
I'm seen you post some flaming Fourth Reich Cunty Bullshit in my time, but never this fucked up. You really too too fucking stupid to understand that government control means you're all dead? At what point does a hammer have to be slammed into your stupid fucktarded head before you realize this? Hmm? Stalin's Hammer didn't do it. The Gestapo's hammer didn't do it. At what point do you fucking learn to read and stop being a useful idiot to the cunts of the world?
Welcome to Orwell's world, where statist enforcement is called "freedom".
Obvious astroturfer is obvious.
Are 4chan, reddit, imgur, and cheezeburger part of this association?
Then it does not represent the internet.
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
If you think Ingsoc's rules and systems were not themselves harmful, maybe _you_ ought to reread it. You completely missed the point, that the stupid rules and blind obedience were 'the point'.
Make rules for everything, every detail and free thinking will never occur to 'them' (people like yourself).
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy accidentally released an internal policy paper concerning a new Net Neutrality talking point.
"Our political contributors don't like Net Neutrality and find that their profits are not high enough. The citizens must be forced to pay more. Framing Net Neutrality as an issue of over-regulation allows us to portray Title II regulation and the FCC as a grasping government department, both over-reaching their mandate and holding back network upgrades. The framing proposed is an obvious canard but our opponents are too stupid to realize that and will be diverted to try and disprove the point. Then all we have to do is to accuse them of being in cahoots with the FCC, as Tax and Spend Liberals."