oldNslow wrote on 02/28/15 at 14:05:22:To return to the original subject of this thread:
If I understand correctly what this is net neutrality nonsense is about,I have to wonder; do we really want the same outfit that can't put together a functioning health insurance website to be in charge of the internet ?
Depends. Washington is pretty broken, and the lobbyists are in charge.. when three or for corps, run the internet for the entire country and make all the rules.. things is broken.
We could point at examples of what the government has done well and has done terrible all day. You chose one that was probably pretty terrible. I think NASA has done us pretty good. Do you really want ISS run by Jet-blue?
Ah JoG... that was so harsh. People like me??? what am I like? You certainly agreed with my economic view points. I have been in networking and computers since BEFORE IBM ever built a PC. I worked with an ISP when everyone HAD to use modems. I have browsed teh FCC website and READ for myself what the lobbyists have put into place there. And recall all of this was brought to a head NOT by the FCC... but by Verizon, who used the FCC so they could charge both their customers and content providers... and who with all the other ISP's are chomping at the bit to be able to control all content. Control is money. To be sure I would have preferred that the FCC not need to use Title II, but .. blame Verizon.
Oh .. and I just read where Verizon may have just perjured itself. Seems they don't REALLY hate Title II afterall... they only hate it for internet.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/verizons-morse-code-press_b_6780...Of course lets be honest there is always some truth to the lies the ISP/phone companies put out. I suspect that they will look at ways to keep cheating customers by hiding behiding government regulations.
Heres one. Those "locked" cell phones. Did you ever think that the CONTRACT you took out for 2 years, meant you bought the phone at the end of the contract. You did. You own the phone. Yet the cell phone company often as not will NOT unlock the phone the you now own.