[Tzimisce]

They’re going to take our free speech. :(

And all we’re going to get is some holier than thou lecture about how it will make America a better place. :(

[Dick Bachert]

If you’re STILL not sure how to feel about the intentionally confusing 332 page FCC monstrosity called Net Neutrality (that the FCC WOULDN’T LET US SEE), all you really need to know is that this is OBAMA’S effort to bring to heel the burgeoning internet alternative – that’s hammering him and his BS into the ground – to Big Brother’s statist propaganda dispensing TELESCREEN. Go online and search “Senators and Representatives who support or oppose net neutrality”. In the support column you will find the usual leftist democrat suspects. There ya’ go!

Let the marketplace make these decisions.  IF the big boys like Comcast, Charter and others start playing games with the consumers, THEN it will be time to surgically rein them in with targeted legislation.

That the very leftist Consumer Union supports obozo’s proposal speaks volumes.

[funfan]

I have a shop on Etsy and the Etsy management are pushing for this Net Neutrality. On the Etsy forums today there was an announcement from the Management and they were praising Chairman Wheeler and asking for Etsy sellers to write a card thanking him for his “Courage” and dedication to pushing it through. A few Etsy sellers are excited and are all for it too. Etsy is going to take the Etsy Thank you cards and personaly hand them to Mr. Wheeler.

I love Etsy but the past couple of years they are really getting progressive. People are stupid.

[struggle]

I wonder if this will spawn cellphone call connected and based BBS hubs.

[octex]

I’ve seen many articles on the NN subject and they all seem to only address what the effect might be on internet providers.

Can any of you savvy FReepers explain in plain English what the effect would be on a non-techie person like me that just uses a desktop PC to access via broadband various sites and doesn’t use the internet for anything else?

Would appreciate better understanding the impact on low level users like myself. .........Thanks in advance!

[W.]

And one can see how 0bama and his minions are succeeding at selling this to the milennials--using the anti-big business meme of the socialists. Oh, no, 'the man' is greedily sticking it to us little guys! But we can stop them by turning control of the internet over to government, they'll make it all OK!

The 0bamaites have a website here, see the names--Reid, Pelosi, Franken, Sanders, Schumer, Warren, Obama and even pictures Wheeler of the FCC with the bad guys.

Here's the spiel from their page: Cable companies are famous for high prices and poor service. Several rank as the most hated companies in America. Now, they're attacking the Internet–their one competitor and our only refuge–with plans to charge websites arbitrary fees and slow (to a crawl) any sites that won't pay up. If they win, the Internet will never be the same.

Their argument is laced with lies coached as dishonest melodramatic blather designed to excite the uneducated into following their lemming-pack to the destruction of internet freedom.

The good guys have a website here and the video alone is here