Comments on: Without Net Neutrality, Would Blogs Exist?

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By: Raj Dash

Raj Dash — Thu, 04 May 2006 09:00:22 +0000

The point is, it’s going to happen. And once it does, do you think we bloggers and website publishers can do anything about it?

By: pkp646

pkp646 — Thu, 04 May 2006 07:56:27 +0000

The government should not be wasting its time trying to regulate something that has done well in its absence. It just doesn’t make sense to regulate something that is not a problem.

By: pkp646

pkp646 — Thu, 04 May 2006 07:54:56 +0000

I’m not fond of Moveon either, but I do not support this issue for many other reasons. Not the least of these reasons being that no one has violvated net neutrality. It just hasn’t happened.

By: Raj Dash

Raj Dash — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 17:19:29 +0000

Public Knowledge has a “net neutrality” video (http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/307) which, in just a couple of minutes, graphically explains some of the potential problems we face.

I checked EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation, http://www.eff.org/) to see what they had written about the Net Neutrality issue but didn’t find anything written after the bill (?) was defeated a few days ago. Where’s Al Gore, “inventor of the Internet” when you need him

By: Raj Dash

Raj Dash — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:28:35 +0000

As with so much in life, profit potential drives decisions before common sense. yucch. what happens now? I hear there’s a ship leaving for mars soon

By: Trisha

Trisha — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:07:59 +0000

“you don’t care or you support their chicanery and BS”

That seems like a rather harsh overgeneralization. I do care, but I don’t know much about them so I have no idea what you are referring to by ‘their chicanery and BS’. I don’t understand why you considered it a waste of your time to give an explanation but it wasn’t a waste of your time to complain about them here.

“By a 34-22 vote…”

That sucks about the house vote

By: BlackVV

BlackVV — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:21:33 +0000

JimK, I have no idea why MoveOn is shameful, but I don’t “support their chicanery and BS” – nor do I care if they are for or against your crackpot US legislation. That’s why (duh) I asked for more information. For YOUR information, I’m new to the blogging game, and I certainly know sod all about PAC groups or MoveOn, HENCE I ASKED why they were bad. They WOULD never speak for me, I’m in the UK. Thanks for the info anyway you Â£$$.

By: Raj Dash

Raj Dash — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:37:47 +0000

Commoncause.org is also pushing this net neutrality issue.

By: Dave Reid

Dave Reid — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:33:52 +0000

Democrats lose House vote on Net neutrality

By a 34-22 vote, members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee rejected a Democratic-backed Net neutrality amendment that also enjoyed support from Internet and software companies including Microsoft, Amazon.com and Google.

It's now more important than ever to influence your congressional representatives! :/

By: Dave Reid

Dave Reid — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:24:57 +0000

Jim, unfortunately partisan “hack” groups don’t think and speak for you unless you want them to do so. It’s perfectly within your right to not sign a petition and contact your representative directly. Some of the rest of us find groups that meet our goal and purpose and PAC groups are able to more directly influence legislation. To each his or her own.

By: JimK

JimK — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:41:06 +0000

If you don’t already know why MoveOn is a shameful, disgusting group of partisan hacks, you don’t care or you support their chicanery and BS. Either way, I’d be wasting my time typing out why they disgust me as a PAC.

My letters to Congress supporting net neutrality will be sent from me, not some lowlife PAC. As should yours be. Stop letting partisan hack groups think and speak for you.

By: Trisha

Trisha — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:32:46 +0000

yes, please tell us what’s wrong with Moveon.org?

By: BlackVV

BlackVV — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:19:14 +0000

Pardon my ignorance JimK, but why is Moveon.org so bad?

By: JimK

JimK — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:07:28 +0000

I will absolutely not, EVER, for any purpose, sign anything or be a part of anything sponsored by or connecte3d to MoveOn.org.

Hopefully someone less despicable will take up this fight. In the meantime, I know how to write my Congresspersons directly and will do so.

By: BlackVV

BlackVV — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:43:28 +0000

“These companies are also lobbying for the right to slow access speeds
to sites that don’t pay them off. So, the high speed internet access
that you pay a premium for will only load sites quickly if they are big
enough to pay the extortion fee. All the other sites you visit will
load as though you’d decided to switch back to dial up modems. Are you
okay with that? Because I’m not. Same with newsâ€¦ Do you want all Fox
all the time, or would you rather choose which sites you use to find
out what’s going on in the world?”

Wow, I find it really hard to think that this could ever be made legal, but I guess here we are. Absolutely shocking, and to be honest terrifying. It’s like eroding free speech, or near enough. Freedom of information is just as important, as is freedom of choice. Down with the legislation!