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    Battling the Internet Czars


    By The Wizard of Laws, Section Multimedia
    Posted on Wed Oct 21, 2009 at 11:37:18 AM EST
    Tags: FCC, free market, hypocrisy, internet, Net Neutrality (all tags)

    The One and his minions continue to pursue their radical agenda, wrapped in pleasant-sounding, benign terminology. To combat the fact that conservatives dominate the free market of ideas on talk radio, they want to bring back the so-called "Fairness Doctrine," which will force otherwise rational media outlets to air rejected liberal opinions because it's "fair" to do so. Think about Air America being rammed down your throat -- that's the Fairness Doctrine. Isn't it enough that we have to contend with the WNBA?

    The latest threat to freedom and the free market is the equally benign-sounding "Net Neutrality" being pushed by the Democrats over at the FCC. Anyone who uses, reads, writes, or depends on the internet should be frightened by this concept. Here's how it works: right now, internet service providers are free to charge behemoth websites (think Google, Amazon, Twitter) to access their bandwith, while they are free to charge less to other, smaller users, or even to make access free. This freedom -- to price their services as they see fit -- has generated tremendous growth in the internet and the increasingly related area of mobile communications. As Bret Swanson put it in the October 4 Wall Street Journal:

    Since 2004, bandwidth per capita in the U.S. grew to three megabits per second from just 262 kilobits per second, and monthly Internet traffic increased to two billion gigabytes from 170 million gigabytes--both tenfold leaps. * * * Wireless carriers invested $100 billion in just the past three years, and the U.S. vaulted past Europe in fast 3G mobile networks. Americans enjoy mobile voice prices 60% cheaper than foreign peers. And the once closed mobile ecosystem is more open, modular and dynamic than ever. All this occurred without net neutrality regulation.

    Moreover, the hypocrisy of so-called "net neutrality" is truly astounding. Google, for example, operates Google Voice, but does not extend the service everywhere because in certain, rural areas and conferencing services Google has higher interconnection fees. So, Google wants to cherry-pick the most profitable networks but refuses neutral service when it's costlier. This, of course, is perfectly rational, but sheer hypocrisy when Google complains about ISPs that want to charge it more because of the tremendous costs Google and other mega-sites like Facebook, Amazon, and Twitter impose on an ISP to be able to offer these services at a high enough speed to satisfy consumers.

    "Net neutrality" would require ISPs to treat every site exactly the same, turning the internet from a growing, vital resource into nothing more than a "dumb" pipeline, discouraging growth and stifling innovation. When will these morons learn that if firms cannot price their offerings to reflect market realities, there will either be no market or the prices will be so astronomically high that the market will be inaccessible for the majority of consumers?

    There is an opportunity to be heard on this. Go to the FCC blog set up here to receive comments and tell them that there is nothing neutral about "net neutrality." You can find out more about this issue at the Technology Liberation Front site here.

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    It isn't about pricing. (none / 0) (#1)
    by LookingforReagan on Wed Oct 21, 2009 at 02:08:30 PM EST
    There is nothing that the current administration cares about when it comes to pricing, access, inovation or anything else. This about the one thing that drives the left. It is their Nirvana, their opiate, their constant high that drives everything they do. It is the grabbing,usurping or collection of absolute power into their hands at all costs. The Constitution be damned. It is nothing but an impediment, a hurdle to be crossed and a constraint to be thrown off. These are dangerous times. Never have I seen the leaders in Congress and the White House so intent on the complete subjigation of the people of the United States. If they have their way we all will be nothing but zoned out Drones all part of the Liberal Progressive Borg Collective.

    They do realize: (none / 0) (#2)
    by maidintheus on Wed Oct 21, 2009 at 02:11:27 PM EST
    ["Net neutrality" would require ISPs to treat every site exactly the same, turning the internet from a growing, vital resource into nothing more than a "dumb" pipeline, discouraging growth and stifling innovation. When will these morons learn that if firms cannot price their offerings to reflect market realities, there will either be no market or the prices will be so astronomically high that the market will be inaccessible for the majority of consumers?]

    That is exactly why they're doing this. Some people are already too dumbed down to realize. I hope everyone has already written, called, emailed their Senate.

    Thank you and please continue to help us keep an eye on this.

    A second concern (none / 0) (#4)
    by Rougman on Thu Oct 22, 2009 at 01:13:59 AM EST
    While I am concerned about net neutrality, I am also concerned with international pressure coming primarily from the UN to allow it to get its grubby corrupt fingers on the administration of the net.

    How long would it take for global taxation to be levied (already suggested) and for content to be censored? (also suggested)  

    Our current government has proven that it is not above sacrificing our best interests in order to be liked by the Belgians and the French.  

     

    So call the senators (none / 0) (#5)
    by maidintheus on Thu Oct 22, 2009 at 09:10:23 AM EST
    and tell them 'no' on net neutrality.

    Don't ya just love their cute descriptions and wording? Gives one the impression of be neutral. Affordability...gives the impression of being cost effective. Let's throw in a few 'children', seniors, minorities, while giving some hype on class and race... how can you say 'no' to these projections?  

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