I would say that you are indeed in support of "Net Neutrality." There is nothing in the overall general scheme of the idea that says legislation is necessary or the ideal form of enforcing net neutrality. If there was some simpler way of guaranteeing equality on the net without having to get Congress involved, I think we would much rather go down that road.
But alas, it appears that at the moment there is very little in the way of other options when it comes to preventing telephone and cable companies from charging extra to companies to be able to deliver their content to end-users without being throttled. The only other possible solution right now that I can think of is some sort of idealistic "pipe dream" where companies like Google and Microsoft and Ebay and every other big internet company suddenly joins forces to establish a new system which would completely bypass the current method of delivery through a person's current internet connection, something like the previously discussed nationwide wireless network and such.
I don't think it is hard at all to be a supporter of Net Neutrality while still remaining apprehensive about government intervention. I mean, for more than 6 years now most of us on the "Left" of the political spectrum have cringed at the very thought of taking something to congress, but at the moment it seems that Congress is the closest thing we have to a shot right now at keeping Telcos from holding the Web hostage.
This is reminding me of some DBZ style stuff now. Everytime someone gets extremely powerful towards the later episodes, it comes down to two of the other characters merging together into one being who is all their power combined.
YahBay is the internet business equivalent to Gogeta (Goku + Vegeta)
"That said, it doesn't actually have to be about the school. As a crass example, if the school saw videotaped evidence of the kid involved in a violent, weapons-based hold up of a store, or perhaps a hand-to-hand beating to death of some other kid over race or sexual orientation (this really happens in certain midwest states,) and were I a parent in the district, I would not only expect an expulsion but I'd go to court to force it."
There is a very big difference in all of those examples you gave as opposed to the one with this kid (not to mention being incredibly extreme)..
All of those activities are ILLEGAL. It is not uncommon for students to get busted for illegal activities and then get suspended and expelled for their actions, regardless of location or timeframe. That is the school protecting itself from possible threatening situations. Schools typically do not allow CRIMINALS inside their campuses.
But as I said above, this is certainly not what is happening now. This kid has done absolutely nothing wrong (as shown by the actual article where the police chief or inspector or whatever he was saying that there were no prosecutable offenses in the blog post).
Trying to lump these actions together is pretty baseless.
I would be more apt to believe that European prices for video game consoles and games has more to do with some blatant forms of price gouging than anything else. I'm not exactly an -expert-, but I do not see how shipping to Europe or Australia is really that much harder than shipping to the United States. The only thing I coudl think of are extraneous business costs in Europe or Australia that I am not aware of. It doesn't make sense why things there are so much more expensive than their American or Japanese counterparts.
I fail to see how airing out complaints on a blog qualifies as "stepping over the line."
But I don't fail to see how suspending (and attempting to expel) the student for exercising his First Ammendment rights after school and off school property qualifies as the school overstepping its boundaries of authority.
As the other replier to your post has mentioned, the school should not have any control on your actions OUTSIDE of school.
I mean, I'm in college right now so I have a bit of experience with the internet and public high schools, but even this blows my mind.
Can any of you older men/women actually sit there and imagine doing something at home outside of school time, and then getting in trouble for it in school (and I'm not talking about actual treatening things like claiming on the playground you are going to blow up the school)?
The schools are overstepping their bounds. If they are going to be so totalitarian in the post-school lives of the kids, why do we even bother having parents? Why do schools sit there and try to claim "Its not our jobs, its the parents job" when at the very same time they are going to reach into the home and bypass the parents for something so innocuous as this?
If the schools want this much power behind the children's lives, they might as well institute public schooling as a year long camp where the kids are forced to live on the school campus (sleep in the gym?) and completely cut the parents out of the whole equation.
They can't have it both ways.
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I would say that you are indeed in support of "Net Neutrality." There is nothing in the overall general scheme of the idea that says legislation is necessary or the ideal form of enforcing net neutrality. If there was some simpler way of guaranteeing equality on the net without having to get Congress involved, I think we would much rather go down that road.
But alas, it appears that at the moment there is very little in the way of other options when it comes to preventing telephone and cable companies from charging extra to companies to be able to deliver their content to end-users without being throttled. The only other possible solution right now that I can think of is some sort of idealistic "pipe dream" where companies like Google and Microsoft and Ebay and every other big internet company suddenly joins forces to establish a new system which would completely bypass the current method of delivery through a person's current internet connection, something like the previously discussed nationwide wireless network and such.
I don't think it is hard at all to be a supporter of Net Neutrality while still remaining apprehensive about government intervention. I mean, for more than 6 years now most of us on the "Left" of the political spectrum have cringed at the very thought of taking something to congress, but at the moment it seems that Congress is the closest thing we have to a shot right now at keeping Telcos from holding the Web hostage.
This is reminding me of some DBZ style stuff now. Everytime someone gets extremely powerful towards the later episodes, it comes down to two of the other characters merging together into one being who is all their power combined. YahBay is the internet business equivalent to Gogeta (Goku + Vegeta)
"That said, it doesn't actually have to be about the school. As a crass example, if the school saw videotaped evidence of the kid involved in a violent, weapons-based hold up of a store, or perhaps a hand-to-hand beating to death of some other kid over race or sexual orientation (this really happens in certain midwest states,) and were I a parent in the district, I would not only expect an expulsion but I'd go to court to force it." There is a very big difference in all of those examples you gave as opposed to the one with this kid (not to mention being incredibly extreme).. All of those activities are ILLEGAL. It is not uncommon for students to get busted for illegal activities and then get suspended and expelled for their actions, regardless of location or timeframe. That is the school protecting itself from possible threatening situations. Schools typically do not allow CRIMINALS inside their campuses. But as I said above, this is certainly not what is happening now. This kid has done absolutely nothing wrong (as shown by the actual article where the police chief or inspector or whatever he was saying that there were no prosecutable offenses in the blog post). Trying to lump these actions together is pretty baseless.
I would be more apt to believe that European prices for video game consoles and games has more to do with some blatant forms of price gouging than anything else. I'm not exactly an -expert-, but I do not see how shipping to Europe or Australia is really that much harder than shipping to the United States. The only thing I coudl think of are extraneous business costs in Europe or Australia that I am not aware of. It doesn't make sense why things there are so much more expensive than their American or Japanese counterparts.
I fail to see how airing out complaints on a blog qualifies as "stepping over the line."
But I don't fail to see how suspending (and attempting to expel) the student for exercising his First Ammendment rights after school and off school property qualifies as the school overstepping its boundaries of authority.
As the other replier to your post has mentioned, the school should not have any control on your actions OUTSIDE of school. I mean, I'm in college right now so I have a bit of experience with the internet and public high schools, but even this blows my mind. Can any of you older men/women actually sit there and imagine doing something at home outside of school time, and then getting in trouble for it in school (and I'm not talking about actual treatening things like claiming on the playground you are going to blow up the school)? The schools are overstepping their bounds. If they are going to be so totalitarian in the post-school lives of the kids, why do we even bother having parents? Why do schools sit there and try to claim "Its not our jobs, its the parents job" when at the very same time they are going to reach into the home and bypass the parents for something so innocuous as this? If the schools want this much power behind the children's lives, they might as well institute public schooling as a year long camp where the kids are forced to live on the school campus (sleep in the gym?) and completely cut the parents out of the whole equation. They can't have it both ways.
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But in Nazi Germany...wait...nevermind.
That doesn't mean that we have to accept it though. I for one would enjoy a little Utopia every now and then :)
No, you obviously don't understand...$0.50 a day per person in the family is LOADS of cash to them. Just IMAGINE if they got paid Two Euros a day!