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- MrAlexanderZ, on 04/23/2008, -1/+13"McSlarrow said of the tens of millions of people who use the Internet every day, "no one is being blocked" and if they were, they could go to another service provider."
What about if you are from a small town with only one ISP? And no one is being blocked? Didn't ComCast admit to throttling? - vondrak, on 04/23/2008, -1/+6The title is misleading. It only mentions Patric Verrone supporting the legislature, not writers fighting for it. On the other hand Justine Bateman is fighting for it.
- merlik, on 04/23/2008, -1/+4If we don't maintain Net Neutrality, all new media will die. No more new podcasts, no more new blogs, etc... Sure the established ones making money might still be able to make it, but the barrier to entry would be insanely high.
- Aensland, on 04/23/2008, -0/+3Basically they're saying regulation will hurt them in the pocketbook. This has nothing to do with protecting consumers... well, maybe protecting consumers from they themselves when they start raising their rates rampantly. "Oh no! Quick! Stop network neutrality, or we won't be able to screw our customers in the ass for more money on a tiered internet!"
- Bidofthis, on 04/23/2008, -1/+3Internets DeathWatch
http://bicbickers.blogspot.com/2008/04/internet-de ... - CAPITALLETTERS, on 04/23/2008, -0/+2Fail attempt at becoming the next rick roll.
- SemiSarcastic, on 04/23/2008, -1/+3There will always be conflict where ever there is money to be made.
- Aensland, on 04/23/2008, -0/+2They're in either the state payroll lists, or detention.
- boozedrinker, on 04/23/2008, -3/+5Saying that the writer's strike paralyzed TV isn't accurate. In fact, I watched some of the best Late Night and daytime TV in years during the strike.
- freedomwv, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1Kill your TV
- freedomwv, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1Screw them. What ever happens in China remember that the US government really does not have the power to do anything. For the US to bring more freedom to China it would have to brake its owns laws; just like the US government did with the war in Iraq.
- freedomwv, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1Yes indeed they did.
- freedomwv, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1The reason for all of this worry about the internet providers taking control of the internet is a lack of trust between the people and the companies. I greedy bastards is never trusted. Although, remember this....A law is force...the more law you have the more force you are allowing the government to wield. The people can control this situation very easy without any help from the government. Stop depending on the government to solve every issue or problem that comes up. Americans are supposed to be free and independent right? Then start acting like it you bunch of soft bellied pinkos.
- inactive, on 04/23/2008, -1/+2Reminds me of that commercial calling net neutrality "mumbo jumbo".
God, it was an insult to the intelligence of even those not considered very intelligent.
http://www.explosm.net/db/files/Comics/Dave/comicv ... - vyasram, on 04/23/2008, -1/+1What about the writers in china?
- inactive, on 04/23/2008, -2/+2I still haven't forgiven those dicks for that little tantrum. And I'm not the only one.
Writers: ***** you and ***** your union. I'm grad you didn't get everything you wanted and that many of you didn't have a job to return to. LOL! - Tryptomine, on 04/23/2008, -1/+1"Large network owners like cable and telecommunications companies are opposed to network neutrality legislation, saying it would add a layer of regulation that will hurt consumers."
Then why don't you bill the extra work to the consumer? That's how everything else works. Jesus Christ, I don't think I've ever seen any large company fight this hard for the "consumer" before. - inactive, on 04/23/2008, -1/+1The thing about the technology underlying much of the internet is that anyone can create a network of computers and a network of networks etc. The thing about censorship and control is it inevitably fails. What will happen if the internet becomes too controlled and censored is those who want more freedom will simply dispense with the old and create the new where freedom is fundamental. Frankly, whining about the end of neutrality on the net is silly. If neutrality is truly lost, something else will emerge to take its place. That is a lesson of human history too often missed, forgotten or out and out ignored.
- kindrobot, on 04/23/2008, -1/+1They want to control the "channels", or convince the consumer that there's an advantage to taking something massively huge and condensing it back down to the major networks, distributors and labels. These are just another group of wannabe middlemen desperately vying for a piece of the pie. Or more accurately, there is no pie and they want to turn it all back into one so they can take a large chunk. Check the records, vote 'em out. Don't spend another penny on a major ISP. Write letters. Fill their "tubes" with your opposition.
- RP53, on 04/23/2008, -1/+1lowest common denominator
$ - curseoflou, on 04/23/2008, -1/+0conan was the ultra ***** during that stint.
- Enron1985, on 04/23/2008, -3/+1The terrorists hate our freedom.
- AmericanGunner, on 04/23/2008, -5/+3this still wont make me download any grays anatomy.
- cmdrtacyo, on 04/23/2008, -6/+1He also learned the value of being unemployed by spending his time surfing internet porn and masturbating to articles on digg about Obama
- baldick, on 04/23/2008, -8/+3I liked TV much LESS during the writer's strike
- momsshizzle, on 04/23/2008, -10/+1http://digg.com/politics/Clinton_Obama_duke_it_out ...
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