Net Neutrality

12 Replies to “Net Neutrality”

1. The proponents of “Net Neutrality” think the internet is ‘broken’ and needs to be regulated.
   The internet isn’t broken, if some Netflix or Google/Youtube customers want to pay more for preferred service or speeds, let them; its their dime.
   The extra fees generated will most likely provide for enhancements to internet backbones, and service points, that all will eventually benefit from. Also the fees will finance internet innovation, which may have broader benefit for all, beyond the first adopters, as technology doesn’t discriminate. Moreover, the unit cost/service drops over time as new technologies become ubiquitous.
   “Net Neutrality” is just code for ‘anti innovation’…
   Cheers
   Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
   1st Saint Nicolaas Army
   Army Group ‘True North’

2. I find it hilarious that the ACLU spokes-doofus is of the opinion that ONLY GOVERNMENT can protect people’s rights, and that a free market response to a free market problem is eeeevile.
   Only the ACLU could argue that it is fair that the whole world should pay for Netflix’s bandwidth instead of Netflix customers paying for it. Oh, and Heavens Forfend that Comcast be able to charge what they want for traffic on THEIR network which THEY built and THEY paid for.
   Not that I’m a huge fan of Comcast per se, just that its their wire and they get to say what runs across it. Should they start throttling stuff and making themselves a nuisance, other guys will be happy to run new fiber optic and provide better service, thereby bankrupting the liberal p3ckerheads at Comcast/NBC.
   Look at Duck-Duck-Go competing with Google for search based on unfiltered access. Should they have to ask some government officer “Mother may I?” or should they just stick a server on the web and start in kicking Google’s @ss?
   ACLU wants us all asking nicely. That’s not liberty.
   ACLU stands for American Clueless Liberals Union.

3. This is just another case of government taking control from the market place, because as any intellectual will tell you, the government knows what you need better than you do.

4. Dollars to Doughnuts she’d have NO problem online censoring a music concert that took some talk time out to criticize Obola.
   Anyway the ACLU would rather use taxpayer money and Lawyers to demonize right wing conservative talk show hosts instead of direct censorship, we get it.
   Dosen’t make you the good guys, Heir Buller.

5. “Net Neutrality” is just code for ‘anti innovation’…
   Just like “affordable care” it’s code for “government control”.
   BTW, why is it that so many lefties lisp?
   Is it a lefty affectation so they can identify each other or perhaps a genetic thing related to the lefty gene?

6. Good to see that the ACLU could take time out from their war on the Boy Scouts to try to stifle another force for good. The ACLU has become another Orwellian-named neoliberal organization more concerned with micromanaging the lives of mere mortals than with allowing the citizenry to live its life free of government interference.

7. “I find it hilarious that the ACLU spokes-doofus is of the opinion that ONLY GOVERNMENT can protect people’s rights, and that a free market response to a free market problem is eeeevile.”
   The ACLU occasionally shows its true colours of being a cultural Marxist organization interested only in its agenda of eradicating God from American culture, and under the guise of freedom (the socialist interpretation thereof), actually stifling freedom.

8. She’d have done better by emphasizing the quasi-oligopoly of ISPs in many regions. But, of course, since she’s a one trick pony that wasn’t gonna happen. Ideology makes you stupid.

9. Theory of little bit.
   So you have the pretend civil liberties woman. She says that in order to have internet free you have to make artificial law. If there is no law the internet is improperly free.
   This is the first bit of little bit by little bit.
   Who could be against free internet? You see the drift? The “civil libertarians” totalitarians want to encroach on liberty by pretending to be for it. They want it to be free for some not so much for others.
   Hope is that it will not get anywhere.
   If it does, the following bits will fall into place little bit by little bit. They, the politicians will amend, alter, adjust, modify, improve, correct and every bit will change the meaning of would be law until it is set up that the LIV will never notice that he has been had.
   There was, in one of the city states of classical Greece, where they had a law that stated that if anybody comes up with a law that did not pass to be instituted, that person was executed.
   Not a bad law if you think about it for a minute.
   See, if there is no law they can’t do anything to it, as soon as there is one you are screwed.
   Way too many laws are there for no other reason but to make lifetime gravy train for lawyers, court recorders, judges and such, not really for real life purpose.
   Little bit by little bit, they will get you, they will sing the siren’s song, you will succumb with pleasure, when you wake up, it will be in all likelihood late.
   Little bit by little bit.

10. CIVIL LIBERTIES … The word ‘liberty’ implies freedom … so how is it that these people want to make sure we have net liberty by controlling it. You are either free or being controlled. There isn’t really much in between other than not having the net at all.
    The net is now as important in the lives of people as drinking water … do NOT mess with that.

11. Late for the party but here goes. Since the internet backbone was, by and large, built by private companies, hands off. As far as pay for usage, I’m reminded of a sign at a garage. “We have Good, Fast & Cheap. Pick two.”

12. I have ultimate faith in the incompetence of the statists and their bureaucracies. The larger they becomes the more glaringly incompetent they are. Things are moving far too fast for them to win their unilateral war. Recent examples are Uber, Lyft, B&Bs etc.