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To: jazusamo

A lot of people on the right are against this, but some of us on the tech side want this. I think some people are thinking fairness doctrine, but techies want comcast to be a big dumb people and not try to turn into aol. The Level 3 vs Comcast this week is turning in it and AT&T and Verizon have been misbehaving as well/


17 posted on 12/02/2010 6:23:26 PM PST by ClayinVA ("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
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To: ClayinVA

I’m probably in too bad a frame of mind to comment objectively, but right now Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Wildblue, HughesNet, Sprint and whatever other freaky little WISPs there are can just PI$$ offand die...and take their *#(&$ little broadband caps with them.

My only internet access is via Verizon’s USB760. I’m a grandfathered Alltel customer (wow, I miss them so much) who’s signal has just been shot to holy 773H because of a police tower and redesignation as a “low priority” area. And then VZW rubs my nose in their crappy LTE pricing.

So help me, I pulled the plug on DirecTV Tuesday after fifteen years, it’s not gonna take much more to push me!

Sorry for the rant. I know I shouldn’t cut off my nose to spite my face, but if anyone’s ISP ever BREATHES about imposing a cap, you’d better raise a stink to the sky.

Darn. That didn’t even make me feel better. >>:<


18 posted on 12/02/2010 7:05:25 PM PST by Kieri (The Conservatrarian)
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To: ClayinVA
If this were only about keeping a few big corporations from having their way with Internet access, it might be a worthy endeavor. But "NN" has absolutely nothing to do with the above. The Left has hijacked this effort as a means to better control the flow of information on the Internet. They are losing control of the message and can't stand that fact, with the Internet being the main reason for the more open dialogue now available as a result of the Internet. Frankly, there isn't a crisis here, but this is just more of the "never waste a (made-up) crisis" garbage from the Obama admin.
22 posted on 12/02/2010 8:42:00 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (Looking forward to kicking Chicago out of Washington.)
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To: ClayinVA
Well, Mussolini did make the trains run on time, something a lot of people in both Italy and the rest of the world appreciated and that some even marveled at.

All things, Clay, have their price. We must ask if resolution of the technical issues involved here are worth the price that will emerge in other areas.

CA....

48 posted on 12/04/2010 10:39:06 AM PST by Chances Are (Seems I've found that silly grin again....)
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