Posted on 04/28/2008 6:05:22 AM PDT by rellimpank
Congressmen are notoriously confused by technology issues. A few years ago, Sen. Ted Stevens took up the issue of net neutrality. Then the chairman of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, he explained to a no-doubt rapt Congressional audience that the Internet was 1) "not a big truck" but 2) was instead "a series of tubes."
There are many things which legislators tend to understand -- taxing, spending, campaigning, trucks -- but the intricacies of modern technology are not always among them. So I cringed when I heard last year that NARAL, a hard-line pro-abortion group, had a text message blast rejected by wireless provider Verizon on the grounds that Verizon reserves the right to refuse to send controversial messages -- of any political persuasion -- over its system.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
It’s really quite simple; although I do not expect our far- left, National Socialist friends to understand.
If the Government interefers with your free speech - THAT is censorship.
If a private corporation intereferes with your free speech - that is NOT censorship; it is a corporate decision.
If you don’t like a corporation’s politics, don’t avail yourself of their products or services.
See? Simple.
... if a gvernment school teaches you how to spell interfere, you’ll probably get it wrong (twice)...
... if a government school teaches you how to spell interfere, you’ll probably get it wrong (twice)...
Okay now, I DID correct the spelling of government in that posting but it got posted anyway.
Really, I DO know how to spell most words, I just seem to have fumble-fingers this morning.
“There are many things which legislators tend to understand — taxing, spending, campaigning, trucks — but the intricacies of modern technology are not always among them.”
Like the ability to move offshore in a nanosecond.
I disagree with Comcast, to an extent. If I’ve paid for x amount of bandwidth/connection speed, I’m going to expect to be able to fully use it, regardless of time of day, or how many other people are using it, because it’s the company’s responsibility to make sure that they can provide what their customers are paying for. However, if the company decides to limit the amount of bandwidth I’m using at any given time to the amount that I paid for, then that’s only fair.
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