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Originally Posted by TNLAKEPANDA
My vote is for free enterprise. Everything our government gets involved in ends up worse off than what you had before. I do not trust them to do what is best for the people. If the current president is for net neutrality then I am definitely against it. The FCC is just another bloated government agency.
I don't like the cable companies but I don't the government to control everything either. Competition is good. Our country was built on competition. Look at the mess we have with things like SS; The VA; Affordable Care Act; Out of control Welfare just to name a few.
You can say hello to higher costs, more taxes and less service. They will also force political equality over the air. Radio stations will have to carry equal time for programs that are conservative and liberal despite the fact that they will loose money by doing so.
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Everyone is welcome to their own opinion.
So if someone is definitely against Net Neutrality ... and does not want government involved with the internet ..... well, that may be fine for that person and for others. But remember what that implies ...
But for me, thankfully, the government has taken a role to monitor, control, and moderate the internet:
- To protect companies from trademark infringements.
- To direct the arrest of individuals involved in the case of child pornography in the U.S.
- To identify and arrest malicious users for websites that utilize ecommerce (e.g., eBay) and banking (e.g., ATMs)
- To arrest hackers who attack, modify, and disable websites.
And the following is from a previous post of mine:
If someone does not want the government involved with the internet, then this same person supports the actions of Comcast and AT&T in the following four examples of violations of net neutrality:
- In 2007 Comcast blocked people from sharing digital files of the King James Bible and public-domain song recordings. (Fox News)
- In 2007, Comcast started blocking its customers from trading files on BitTorrent (peer-to-peer file sharing) by intercepting the data transmitted between the user downloading a file and the file’s host website and thus disconnecting the user from the host. (Fox News)
- In April 2012, Netflix charged that Comcast was restricting access to popular online video sites, in order to promote Comcast's own Xfinity TV service, giving Comcast product an unfair advantage against other Internet video services. (PC Magazine)
- In September 2012, AT&T was accused of violating net-neutrality rules, by restricting use of the video-conferencing Apple application "FaceTime" to certain customers. The application which could be used over Wi-Fi signals was restricted to only be used over cellular connection for customers who have a shared data plan on AT&T and excludes those with older unlimited or tiered data plans. (New York Times).