There Goes the Internet

[randolph]

Tracy, I would suggest you read this report. It is so alarming the Obama administration suppressed it after the Republicans freaked out.

http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf

This entire exchange illustrates what I was talking about in my previous post. This is why I won?t discuss anything like politics online. I know smc personally and believe he is very fair-minded, tolerant, and unbiased when it comes to other people?s opinions--which he has shown to be many times over in his job as moderator. I also believe that his character is above reproach. I consider him a friend and colleague. In fact I would be honored to be able to sit in on one of his classes.

Net Neutrality is an issue worthy of serious discussion. The Internet has always been an unregulated medium. Computer professionals, security experts and social scientists disagree on many of the issues involved. It is not a topic that should be reduced to Fox News ?sound bytes? and name calling. I would suggest that the members truly interested in learning more about this complex subject do some research on ?Net Neutrality? rather than wasting time in this thread. The last time I checked Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Sarah Palin were not considered ?computer professionals.? Their views on technology are not taken seriously by anyone that I know.

[TracyCoxx]

Originally Posted by randolph

Tracy, I would suggest you read this report. It is so alarming the Obama administration suppressed it after the Republicans freaked out.

http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf

OMG... I was aware of the DHS looking into to right wing extremism as a source of terrism rather than the obvious Al Qaeda who had declared war on us. But I hadn't actually seen it.

Originally Posted by aw9725

Net Neutrality is an issue worthy of serious discussion. The Internet has always been an unregulated medium.

That is about to change.

Originally Posted by aw9725

The last time I checked Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Sarah Palin were not considered ?computer professionals.? Their views on technology are not taken seriously by anyone that I know.

I wholeheartedly agree with you on this. But then nothing was said on this thread about Glenn Beck's, Rush Limbaugh's, or Sarah Palin's professional opinion of computer technology.

[randolph]

A free and open internet is extremely uncomfortable for politicians. At last the public can find out what they are up to behind our backs. Bureaucrats are right now watching what we are saying on the internet. So far there is not much else they can do to control the flow of information. Even Wikileaks has gotten away with releasing extremely sensitive information. Other countries are not willing to put up with that (China, Iran, etc.).

The first step in control would be allowing the media companies to selectivity regulate the broadband aspects of the internet, this must be resisted at all costs.

[TracyCoxx]

Originally Posted by randolph

The first step in control would be allowing the media companies to selectivity regulate the broadband aspects of the internet, this must be resisted at all costs.

This is what regulating the internet is advertised to do. In light of what FCC commissioner, Robert McDowell said about applying the Fairness Doctrine to the internet, the fear is that regulation will simply go from corporations to the government. And governments are a whole lot better at %$#@ things up than corporations are.

[randolph]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

This is what regulating the internet is advertised to do. In light of what FCC commissioner, Robert McDowell said about applying the Fairness Doctrine to the internet, the fear is that regulation will simply go from corporations to the government. And governments are a whole lot better at %$#@ things up than corporations are.

The only interest corporations have in the internet is MAKING MONEY, ie Google. No doubt there are big bucks to be made on the internet, particularly if you can control it. Google already controls to some extent what we look at by monitoring what we log onto and then "customizing" our searches.
Check out the Blekko search engine and see how different the list of porn sites is, that turns up, compared to Google.

[TracyCoxx]

Originally Posted by randolph

The only interest corporations have in the internet is MAKING MONEY, ie Google. No doubt there are big bucks to be made on the internet, particularly if you can control it. Google already controls to some extent what we look at by monitoring what we log onto and then "customizing" our searches.
Check out the Blekko search engine and see how different the list of porn sites is, that turns up, compared to Google.

Indeed... Type 'Obamacare' in Google. The first thing that comes up is www.healthcare.gov. That's not because of any search algorithm at Google. It's because Obama is using your tax dollars to advertise his heath plan.

[Trogdor]

Originally Posted by randolph

The only interest corporations have in the internet is MAKING MONEY, ie Google. No doubt there are big bucks to be made on the internet, particularly if you can control it. Google already controls to some extent what we look at by monitoring what we log onto and then "customizing" our searches.
Check out the Blekko search engine and see how different the list of porn sites is, that turns up, compared to Google.

Corporations also like controlling you.
Ted Turner once said that "power is better than sex".

And just look at how China handles internet.
We'll be next if we are not careful.