Net neutrality: John McCain says no, Glenn Beck sees a Marxist plot — DailyFinance — Well, these two in agreement must mean net neutrality is indeed a good thing.
Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican, introduced a bill late Thursday that would short-circuit the FCC’s ability to enforce its proposed open Internet rules. In a press release, McCain said the new rules will “stifle innovation, in turn slowing our economic turnaround and further depressing an already anemic job market.” McCain is particularly opposed to extending net neutrality to the wireless space, and his bill, the Internet Freedom Act of 2009, comes as opponents of net neutrality launched a furious attack on the FCC and the Obama administration.
Glenn Beck, the popular TV and radio host with 3 million nightly viewers, has blasted net neutrality as a “Marxist” plot by the Obama administration to take over the Internet.
John McCain — ‘Tech Troglodyte’ And Top Recipient Of Telecom Cash — Unveils Bill To Block Net Neutrality
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/24/mccain-internet-freedom/
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Last night on Rachel Maddow’s show, Boing Boing co-editor Xeni Jardin explained the problem with McCain’s legislation:
Telecoms, Internet service providers — they already have a kind of monopoly. The idea here [with net neturality] is to prevent them from abusing that monopoly. … They want freedom all right. They want to find new ways to charge us more money. [...]
Whenever there’s a fight on the Internet, it’s always good to side with the geeks who built the Internet, rather than the fat-cat telecom lobbyists.
She could sit in a mud puddle and fart and I would eat the bubbles.
Isn’t that Willow from Buffy?
#60 FTW
#61 I recall reading John C Dvorak’s opinion legislation isn’t needed…till actual abuse occurs…that we already have “net neutrality” and there are laws that prevent anyone from blocking access.
http://pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2351739,00.asp
But in another article he says its needed:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,334686,00.html
The apparent contradiction is resolved by the lack of clear of definition what “net neutrality” is…
Unlike you liberals, who now trust Government will always act in your interest (talk about blind faith), I suspect sinister motives…
There is too much crap happening now…the Establishment Media won’t report Government abuse…and there is figuratively reams of it…
Our “watchdogs” are now lapdogs…I’d rather see the independence of the press restored…before fundamental rules are changed by the government.
If you want to pay Comcast more for videos streamed from Netflix compared to videos streamed from Comcast, then by all means, vote against net neutrality.