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To: Balding_Eagle
Net neutrality is the early internet version of The Fairness Doctrine.

There is no connection whatsoever. A radio station has a fixed number of broadcast hours and decides which content will be broadcast according to the desires of the listeners. The fairness doctrine changes that and gives viewers what they don't want.

And ISP is supposed to blindly flow ALL traffic. There is no such thing as "fairness" when you don't even know what the content is. Free Republic traffic gets the same priority as the PMSNBC not because that's mandated that our views be broadcast, but because the Internet doesn't care, it's neutral.

36 posted on 10/22/2009 11:15:09 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
And ISP is supposed to blindly flow ALL traffic. There is no such thing as "fairness" when you don't even know what the content is. Free Republic traffic gets the same priority as the PMSNBC not because that's mandated that our views be broadcast, but because the Internet doesn't care, it's neutral.

And you think Big Government control is going to provide that?

Can you provide ANY historical context for such a conclusion?

41 posted on 10/22/2009 1:52:35 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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