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Old 09-04-2008, 09:43 PM  
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Wow, holy shit some of you people are on crack, drugs, rock, pipe up the ass, something really fucked up either way.

First, I don't support McCain or Obama. Personally, I think we are totally screwed either way.

Network neutrality is a bad thing. So supporting it, is a bad thing. Meaning, I don't support it, I don't want it around. It's nothing more than words that sound like a good thing but really is a bad thing.

The GOV doesn't want to regulate the Internet with this idea. The Internet Providers do. So by supporting net neutrality, you support the idea of allowing phone companies to charge you based on the hours, minutes, seconds, downloads, locations, websites, time on a site, anything they wish anyway they seem fit. Like a long distance phone call, but on a tier system like cell phones.

"In a June 2007 report, America's Federal Trade Commission urged restraint with respect to the new regulations proposed by network neutrality advocates, noting the "broadband industry is a relatively young and evolving one," and given no "significant market failure or demonstrated consumer harm from conduct by broadband providers," such regulations "may well have adverse effects on consumer welfare, despite the good intentions of their proponents."[9] In turn, the FTC conclusions have been questioned in Congress, as in September 2007, when Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., chairman of the Senate interstate commerce, trade and tourism subcommittee, told FTC Chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras that he feared new services as groundbreaking as Google could not get started in a system with price discrimination."

Even the FTC says .. hey wait, this is fucked.. First, "WE" aren't doing it, someone else is trying to do - and that's our job - so fuck off.

That doesn't mean the FTC doesn't want to regulate us, it just means they don't want the ISP's to regulate what you can and can't do and how much to charge us for it.

Ok, back to your regular moron programing.
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