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Save the Internet The potential for spectrum to make high-speed Internet more abundant than water:

Source: dir.salon.com
Mar 12, 2003 | There's a reason our television sets so outgun us, spraying us with trillions of bits while we respond only with the laughable trickles from our remotes. To enable signals to get through ...
Ken
Ken
I think a better analogy for the article would be "The government has granted WABC-AM an exclusive license to the color Forest Green in NYC." but with the acknowledgment that they actually only broadcast a particular type of Forest Green leaving others unused.

The only thing that the scientist interviewed for the article doesn't seem to understand... Read More is that the airwaves are not an end user product like a television or a computer but are the infrastructure that connects and animates said devices. We cannot allow a blind capitalistic system to cut off people's connection and access based upon maximum profitability. That would lead to caste system permanence where the poor and disenfranchised would be forced further and further behind and those at the top would benefit at an ever increasing pace based upon their technological edge. The very reasons why the government began regulating the phone industry, forcing them to extend service to the outliers which they had refused to perform in order to retain maximum profitability. He dances a good dance around the term deregulation for a very good reason - it has never produced the desired effect, only regulation has because the goal of legislation is to protect and aid the public - not the spread of technology though the benefit of such for the public must surely be weighed.

Let's wisely regulate the Net - like Net Neutrality offers - not deregulate it because we've all seen what happens with deregulation.
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Rachael Jensen

Rachael Jensen
I just started my own business that operates solely on the web right now. If Net Neutrality were taken away there is NO WAY I could afford to compete with the big hitters or pay the companies in charge their extortion money to even be seen at all let alone make money. I make my products and don't charge enough for them... to EVER justify opening my own shop. The Internet is the last frontier for small niche businesses like mine! We have to protect our FREEDOM!Read More

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This letter is co-authored by Alex Nogales, president of the National Hispanic Media Coalition, and Ben Scott, policy director of Free Press. The debate over Network Neutrality has intensified since the FCC announced its intention to clarify and codify its Network Neutrality rules.
John

John "Net Neutrality" is far too boring of a catchphrase. I think the concept needs to be re-branded to sound more exciting to the average tech-tarded user.

How about "Internet Equality," or "Online Awesomeness"?

Sun at 4:44pm · Report
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Net Neutrality opponents would have us believe that an open Internet is bad for business. Funny then, that folks from the business and tech sectors have been penning editorials in recent weeks to make the case that Net Neutrality is actually pro-business.
Brad Haarer
Brad Haarer
You do realise that if we gave ip packets the same protection that we give snail mail 99% of this argument would go away. . .
November 6 at 5:51pm
Darren Demers
Darren Demers
It's all about control. Follow the money trail and it ends up in Washington for some behind the scenes "special interest" lobbying. When you get too big, there is no other option but to attempt control.....Fight the Future!!
Sun at 8:45am
Tim

Tim It seems that Net Neutrality is not our only issues to be worried about:
Mentioned on the BOL # 1099 Nov. 4, 2009 (6:00-14:30) http://www.cnet.com/8301-19709_1-10390861-10.html
Electric Frontier Foundation Story:
Leaked ACTA Internet Provisions: Three Strikes and a Global DMCA
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/11/leaked-acta-internet-provisions-three-strikes-and-

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Source: studio711.com
Look out: it’s a political post. I avoid these so much that I don’t even have a post category for it. But I’m writing because this is one of the most important bills (in my mind) that has gone through congress in a while, and it’s also one that I think can be very confusing. ...
Holland Evans
Holland Evans
Its ok everybody needs some assess once in a while....
November 6 at 9:50am
Enrique Barahona Ramos

Enrique Barahona Ramos "the internets" is the last bastion against the global morons

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Late last week, the Federal Communications Commission announced it was seeking public input on draft rules that would codify and supplement existing Internet openness principles. This was another chapter in the ongoing "Net neutrality" debate.
Michael B. Pierson
Michael B. Pierson
I would guess they.... DIDN'T CARE!
November 4 at 12:19pm
Mike Mayes
Mike Mayes
I would guess...silence
November 4 at 2:09pm
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The high tech industry will play a significant role in the battle to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as long as the Internet remains a level playing field.
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Save the Internet The pro-business case for Net Neutrality and free-flowing Web commerce: http://twurl.nl/caaae8

Source: twurl.nl
Free marketeers' primary argument against Net neutrality is that a government watchdog role in protecting neutrality is bound to be "political" -- and that any government agency will ultimately start a slippery slide to full-bore regulation of the Internet. ...
Mark Stewart
Mark Stewart
Interesting.
November 4 at 9:34am
John Patsfield

John Patsfield I just hope that the name doesn't confuse the issue - I get that the name was used intentionally to do just that -

Oh - and to the people saying that you have to drop this device or that one - THAT's what this is all about. Choice. We don't want anyone to control our choices, and that means you guys as well...

Dave Capocchi

Dave Capocchi I can't believe after all that time as a POW fighting for freedom, Mc Cain can be bought for $900,000! Shame on you Johnny, SHAME ON YOU! Shame on Comcast and AT&T. If you own an IPhone drop it ASAP and get an ANDROID phone with one of the less EVIL carriers.

November 3 at 4:59pm · Report
Todd Leith
Todd Leith
McCain had to sell out his beliefs in order to run for president...do you really beleve that he would've chosen that ignorant, half-wit as a running mate otherwise? He is a puppet of the corporations, and appeals to the lowest common denominator of the right wing corporate collective.
Yesterday at 12:06pm
Brad Port

Brad Port Become a friend, and don't let big business take away our internet, as we know it. Shame on John McCain...

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Brandon Y.

Brandon Y. John McCain's price is $900,000 to sell out the publics access to an open internet!

the internet freedom act is bs.

November 3 at 12:32pm · Report
Dean Millam
Dean Millam
Glad I didn't vote for him. I lost whatever respect I may have had for him. Maverick...not!!
November 3 at 2:45pm