Internet - this ain't good !

[lantern53]

the internet was operating under a free market system but now the gov't will get involved, and some people actually think that is a good idea

you do realize that these are the same brainiacs who have the US saddled with $18 trillion in debt?

It amazes me that some people thinking the gov't getting involved is a good thing.

Imagine how much money the gov't will make if they assign a licensing charge for every web page a company owns. Soon simviation will be paying a fee to the gov't and they will either go out of business or have to charge it's users.

Well, it's too late now, the gov't has it's mitts on internet usage in the US and you'll never get them off, because even Republicans in office want a bag of gold to do whatever it is they want to do.

[ftldave]

the internet was operating under a free market system but now the gov't will get involved, and some people actually think that is a good idea ...

The Internet was created and has been run on the good working principle of network neutrality from the beginning. A byte is a byte. Corporations and Republicans want to change that, to monetize the Internet based on content and source. Classifying the Internet as a common carrier is a sound decision, supported by the thousands and thousands who petitioned the FCC to maintain net neutrality. Not all the piled-on corporate spin and your-bill-will-go-up doom-gloom will change that.

[jcj78]

Not all the piled-on corporate spin and your-bill-will-go-up doom-gloom will change that.

You mean the corporatist-apologists don't have a crystal ball? How then did they know that a moratorium on new oil well drilling in the GoM was gonna drive oil prices up to the record highs we've been seeing ever since? Or that the GM bailout would cost taxpayers billions? Or that the war in Iraq would pay for itself? Oh, wait.

Its the oldest trick in their book. I can't believe they think people still fall for it.