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Net Neutrality
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Net neutrality is a principle that bars Internet providers, primarily phone and cable companies, from charging higher rates to Web-based firms in return for giving their content priority treatment on the pathways to consumers. Without such restrictions, proponents say, a user might find it time-consuming, or even impossible, to call up a favorite site that carriers have relegated to slower lanes for economic or even philosophical reasons.
-- Charles Babington for The Washington Post
And one of the last things Monk would care to see is phone and cable companies deciding what we can see by virtue of their philosophical principles.
This article reports that the debate for net neutrality is partisan, being led by Democratic and liberal interests, even though representatives of such groups as the Christian Coalition believe that it is important to maintain net neutrality. Conservatives apparently have not been weighing in. I imagine that is because Conservatives are not wholly in disfavor of being able to regulate and even block Internet content.
If phone and cable companies need money to invest in the 'pipes,' I am sure that can be managed through those monthly fees. We do not need them to play censor.
God, please don't let them turn the Internet into network television. Let freedom breathe!
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Net neutrality is a principle that bars Internet providers, primarily phone and cable companies, from charging higher rates to Web-based firms in return for giving their content priority treatment on the pathways to consumers. Without such restrictions, proponents say, a user might find it time-consuming, or even impossible, to call up a favorite site that carriers have relegated to slower lanes for economic or even philosophical reasons.
-- Charles Babington for The Washington Post
And one of the last things Monk would care to see is phone and cable companies deciding what we can see by virtue of their philosophical principles.
This article reports that the debate for net neutrality is partisan, being led by Democratic and liberal interests, even though representatives of such groups as the Christian Coalition believe that it is important to maintain net neutrality. Conservatives apparently have not been weighing in. I imagine that is because Conservatives are not wholly in disfavor of being able to regulate and even block Internet content.
If phone and cable companies need money to invest in the 'pipes,' I am sure that can be managed through those monthly fees. We do not need them to play censor.
God, please don't let them turn the Internet into network television. Let freedom breathe!
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For instance, I think Turner/Warner owns my Internet, and they are pretty big on being family friendly, and it is easy for me to see how they would be willing to go beyond just favoring some sites, such as its own CNN offerings, but to derailing the porn sites, and they would only get cheers from mainstream America. I'm not too crazy about majority rule when it comes to free speech.
So long as you have broadband, everything loads pretty quickly. I think they just want to censor.