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To: Soul of the South
Good post.

The majority of people today, like the plebes of Rome before us, cheer Caesar because he promises bread and circuses.

Oddly enough, that is what net neutrality is about, at least nominally. Sure, there could eventually be censorship by some means, but the internet is designed to work around censorship and the countries that try, like Iran and China, fail miserably.

No, what net neutrality really means is circuses, in the form of Netflix soft core porn and lots of meaningless, drivelous entertainment takes priority over all other content on the internet. In my own case it is stark. I have few choices for internet in my rural area. If just one person between myself and the tower decides to stream some garbage, I get no bandwidth other than a few packets every now and then. That's the same thing China does when cranking up the filtering in a vain attempt to only let permitted content through. My providers will be forced to allow streaming video without throttling and I will get no service.

91 posted on 03/03/2015 6:31:11 AM PST by palmer (Free is when you don't have to pay for nothing. Or do nothing. We want Obamanet.)
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To: palmer

—I have few choices for internet in my rural area—

Sounds like a business opportunity to me.


121 posted on 03/03/2015 6:21:58 PM PST by cookiemcbride
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