networkingpipeline.com — The feds are holding hearings today on a bill that could essentially allow big Telcos to hijack the Internet. The law would regulate Internet Protocol and broadband services, and it would let the big providers block services and net access, and possibly worse as well.
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brak710101Nov 9, 2005
omg hax
mofoNov 9, 2005
They need to get rid of the FCC anything that gives them MORE power is disastrous. I'm so glad they bleep all those nasty cuss words on tv and the radio and prevent horrible nudity from being shown, that's good fed dollars at work. /sarcasm
corptNov 9, 2005
>AS much as I dislike the socialist policies of the Democrats, I don't recall seeing anything anywhere near this troubling.Never heard of the DMCA that Clinton signed? All politicians do this. Dem, Repub, everyone. Just find the lesser of two evils, or don't vote. That's about all we can do :|
16x9Nov 9, 2005
CorpT wrote: "Never heard of the DMCA that Clinton signed? All politicians do this. Dem, Repub, everyone. Just find the lesser of two evils, or don't vote. That's about all we can do :|"Not that 5blocksfree needs my help, but I don't think he was implying that Democrats are free of the "moron gene." It's just that in my view, and I'm guessing that in 5blocksfree's view (and others as well, I suspect), we are seeing an absolutely HUGE jump in these kinds of anti-competitive and anti-consumer agendas under a Republican controlled House, a Republican controlled Senate and a Republican Presidential Administration.I don't care what a person's political bent is, if these are issues we care about (and since you took the time to submit a comment I'm guessing you fall into this category), the tie between this cancer and the Republican party requires some critical thinking.
pat1006Nov 10, 2005
Ou vote means nothing as popular vote does not elect a president. The presidenr is elected by the electoral college.
Closed AccountNov 10, 2005
Government just can't keep its hands out of anything. We are experts in our field and know that the government getting involved will just screw things up. I think the same is true for most disciplines and if you ask and expert in their field the will probably tell you the same. Somewhere there is chemical engineer talking about how this is a good thing and will protect the little man. A along we know that it's just special interest. I think everyone should think about that when pushing government control of almost everything.
Closed AccountNov 10, 2005
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physivicNov 11, 2005
I need to read the analyses about the bill first, but it already seems to me that there's no reason to accept or fear business taking over elements of the government and the economy - they *are* those elements; our experience of "society" is in what we think. I don't religiously commit to the maxim that what is good for business is good for the people, but to say that busines hasn't served the public at all has to be a bit ignorant. We're all using these computers because of the government's original attitude toward telecommunication; through a functioning system, its power has increased manifold. The one sign I find prescient is that the proclamation of the master scientist behind the technological element in question may or may not be important to the men who inhabit the collection of federal buildings in D.C. If, in the afternoon fiesta of American politics, we were afforded one topical pinata to smash open to reveal a secret evil, it is the Republican will to ignore scientists. This is one clear area in which they've excelled, and we've been given the shaft, over and over; somehow, we still fail to clearly exhibit their motive, and use that knowledge to stop the argumentation. We all agree here, for the most part, on topics of centralized control. What isn't clear is how society would have turned out without these mad, self-empowering rich-kid geeks in the White House, or how the Internet and the PC paradigm may have developed without Micro$oft stealing all the money. In any case, I think there may be something to be said for knowledge being power, and for a general tendency of knowledge and power to increase in a free society, which we still have.