[gunnyg]

The Net is the steady drone of the voice of the wee people in their ears!
THEY can’t stand it!
;)@PlanetWTF?
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[Road Warrior ‘04]

I’ve unplugged! I’m not even posting on FreeRepublic right now! /S

[Iron Munro]

What is it about the internet that makes it so the government just can't seem to keep its greedy paws off of it?

That is where the money is.

And where there is money there is power.

And where there is money and power the politicians will swarm like blowflies on rotten meat.

[moovova]

Didn’t the gubment develop the internet? And, isn’t the “internet” actually a conglomeration of different functions...with the “www” aspect being a late arrival?

[Candor7]

What is it about the internet that makes it so the government just can’t seem to keep its greedy paws off of it?>>>>>>>>>>

Freedom of assembly, freedom of communication, encrypted privacy........many freedoms.

And the government wants into your business.Largely because the deep state wants to control thought based on liberal fascist ideology and tax&track your commercial activity.

And what is liberal fascist ideology?

Liberal fascism is well defined here and we must fight it
with all our might, or else we will loose our country to totalitarian rule:

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html

[AnotherUnixGeek]

First, we have the threat of a new tax on internet sales even when the company in question has no physical presence in the state.

Too late, at least in California. Amazon has been slapping on California sales tax on purchases made out of state for a few years now.

[Brilliant]

Al Gore’s fault.

[upchuck]

A minor edit to Mr. Moore's last paragraph:

All we need for this information-rich future is to have the government get out and stay out of the way. Is that really so hard?

[jeffc]

Verizon and AT&T have pledged billions of dollars of new investment now that the net neutrality rules are gone.

I believe Verizon, as they are innovators and aggressively expand. AT&T, OTOH, is very selective and timid when it expands. The DSL in this area (when it's available) is still only 6Mbs, and they refuse to expand, to the surprise of those building new homes here when they find they cannot get internet service...