There Goes the Internet

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Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

Everyone needs to call your congressmen to tell the government to butt out of the internet. If we stay silent on this make no mistake, we will not recognize it when they are done with it!

Did you read the article? The purpose of the regulations is to keep ISPs who are pushing their own bundled services from trying to give their own content priority. Like Time Warner and Cox giving their own VOIP services bandwidth while they strangle competing services like Skype.

Try to pick something more reasonable to have a psycho conspiracy theory about. The FCC will never have the power to regulate all the content on the Internet. There are already things that are blatantly illegal that they can't stop.

For example, I buy Androcur online from India (which is an illegal drug in the US), and I play poker on gambling sites based in Gibraltar. They want to regulate this. They want to keep me from doing things that are illegal in the US, but they've been unable to so far. So this whole article is irrelevant except for the small possibility that it may actually do something to protect us as consumers.

In your right-wing psychosis you're implying that that this is some Democrat plot to take away our freedoms. The blatantly corrupt politicians who are against regulations so much that they allow completely unethical business and banking practices are the reason the economy is fucked. The Republicans who voted against this don't want this kind of safeguard is because they're getting blown by the CEOs to protect their interests.

You want me to call my congressman and complain that I don't want them regulating monopolies like Time Warner? Stop listening to Fox News.