Posted on 03/15/2011 8:13:44 AM PDT by Biggirl
I agree with both of you.
Fearmongering phool............create a boogey man then demand that laws be implemented to stop the boogey man.............
He fails to mention that it is HIS party tht is selling out to “corporations”. What a lying sack of sh!t to try to blame it on someen else when it is his party doing it!
Even though Franken sounds good here he is supporting "Net Neutrality" and those laws are chock full of Government intervention and censorship.
Whenever a Democrat talks about freedom he/she is a liar and actually wants the opposite.
I’m for retaining the Internet’s neutrality, but Franken’s hyperbole only serves to rally his base, doesn’t really help the argument.
If you listen to the accusations of the “Progressives,” you’ll find they’re revealing they’re own plans.
This “Net Neutrality” is intended to control internet content. They would use it to kill Free Republic.
Net neutrality, he added, is “the First Amendment issue of our time.”
Really?
Really?
Really?
Al you are you a wholly uninformed deceiver.
No, wait. You are a friggin liar.
Net Neutrality would place monopolistic power over transit traffic that ingresses and egresses the top five Internet service providers.
Essentially it would allow them to decide what traffic is a priority.
If you utilize VOIP I can assure you ATT will not give that traffic priority. In fact, it will be hampered and call quality will be eroded for the sole purpose of ATT dominating voice traffic. Their single biggest line of that is the most profitable is copper wire.
Copper wire has been in the ground a long, long time and with the investments made to acquire rights of way and bury the wire or leave it on poles, their ROI was returned many years ago.
Sites like FR will be no longer receive equal treatment and users of this great site will likely find themselves at times or with regularity feeling like they are on dial up and using BBS.
Right now all traffic is treated the same. If the there is congestion in the web everyone feels it.
Only those who pay a premium will be treated to the Internets equivalent of a “Fast Lane” with their bits and bytes being charge a premium during peak traffic times so the business will assured their traffic and website receive priority.
The Internet has evolved from its days at DARPA and Universities to become a delivery system for everyone and by golly using planes, trains and automobiles(in the virtual world) that traffic will be sent and received by everyone at the rate of speed as the next guy.
Everyone needs to kick this Net Neutrality thing to the curb or outright kill it.
It is the least fair system and will lead to monopolistic control of Internet traffic with only a handful of companies dictating the terms and prices.
Net neutrality doesn't mean that. From the point of view of a content provider such as Skype, they pay their ISP for their bandwidth. From the point of view of the consumer, he pays his ISP for his bandwidth. Net neutrality means the consumer's ISP can't charge the content provider (who has no contractual relationship with the ISP, he has his own ISP) just because what they provide to the ISP's customers competes with their own product (think anticompetitive behavior), or just because they want more money. Think of it as a "toll booth on the information superhighway." They add nothing of value, but the use the their customers (you) as leverage to extort money from the content providers.
So, right now I pay my ISP, Netflix pays its ISP, and I pay Netflix. Without net neutrality, Netflix also has to pay my ISP, and since I pay Netflix that basically means I'm paying my ISP for my service twice.
Ooop!!!!
I went back and finished the article.
Al Baby!! You might have redeemed yourself and you got this one exactly right.
Comcast is now embroiled in a dispute with Level 3, a networking company that carries online video feeds for Netflix, over fees Comcast wants to charge to carry the high-bandwidth content.
You damn right! That is exactly what Comcast wants to do.
“Unfortunately one thing these big corporations have that we don’t is the ability to purchase favorable political outcomes,” he said. “Big telecoms have lots of [lobbyists], and good ones, too. ... The end of net neutrality would benefit no one but these corporate giants.”
Right Brothuh! The small company doesn’t have any lobbyists.
Are you talking about the same government that created the Internet in the first place, controlled it for decades, and still has control over some key facets?
Nope. He’s saying skip Net Neutrality.
It is a pricing scheme that benefits only the top five service providers as 80% of all traffic ingresses and egresses their networks.
They already have in place a very pricey scheme with their peering requirements and companies like Covad or even VOIP providers will come out losers on this one.
He can’t go outside and scream about this because his face goes up in the air, and if it rains he’ll drown.
So now Franken is claiming Norm Coleman’s mantle?
“I don’t know much about Pawlenty, so I can’t say if I’d want him as President. However, the same voters that made him governor sent this horse’s ass Frankenhole to the Senate. So that’s a problem right there....”
You are soooooooo wrong! Pawlenty voters would never vote for Al Franken. Franken won literally by a Hollywood Lawyers Power Play!!!!!
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