Hardly anyone predicted the Internet and its consequences, with the amazing new freedom to communicate with almost anybody across the globe and easily look up facts. Who would have thought that someone could pull out a cell phone at dinner and have the most comprehensive encyclopedias in hand to peruse for information? All this was created without the federal government protecting us from the companies that were providing the service.
The Obama administration doesn’t hold the new freedom in high regard. The administration labels new regulations as “net neutrality.” If enacted, new Federal Communications Commission regulations will change everything. The federal government not only will regulate prices (which is never a good idea), but also will eliminate any control by service providers over the programs they run on their systems.
Preventing Internet providers from charging higher prices to those who use more bandwidth will, the argument goes, benefit consumers. Unfortunately, although we all would like lower prices, things don’t work that way. Large downloads slow down the Internet. Not limiting those who want to make large downloads produces congestion, slowing down the rate at which others can access information on the Internet.
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Obama is making Joseph Goebbels look like a dummy.
Correct me if I'm wrong…..but, I vaguely recall that in most previous socialistic / communist / fascist take-overs, it was the liberale News Media that fawned over the new-found messiah, and assisted in propelling each one to the top. When once there, each "messiah" turned on his otherwise well-intentioned benefactors and annihilated them en tot, because IF they finally figured out he really was who he claimed he wasn't, there'd be a counter-revolution ~ if allowed to "spread the (new) word."
Or, did I just dream this in a really bad dream?
That said: Beware, News Media!! You're day is coming…..
Typical! The gov't hopes to makes fascist policies more appealing by spreading a ton of manure in hopes that something will grow!
Once again Obama is trying to control opposing positions to his agenda. If he gets control of the internet, comments like this and those above will no longer be legal. These are serious times that we are living in and I fear for our future. America is a free country and when you try to take that freedom away, people will rise up as they already have started to do. God Bless America and the people trying to save it.
I appreciate the posts above as they sound like informed people concerned about the negative direction our current administration is trying to take us…Don't think the leaders of other Nations aren't watching what happens…many dictators and enemies of America are hoping Obuma succeeds !! Think about that !!