I guess this has was somehow inspired by our Digital Economy Bill :/

 

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As I understand it, it's not their government that Americans should fear in this instance, but the large telecom companies. Net Neutrality is a good thing, and Obama has already said he supports it. The FCC is trying to formalize it and prevent the telecom companies from picking and choosing what their customers are "allowed" to access. In no way does Net Neutrality give the government control over the internet, or create any kind of "kill switch". It's about exactly the opposite of giving anyone control over the access, or the ability to censor. It's about giving the public the freedom to access whatever they want, without being made victims of the telecom industry's greed. Right now, all the telecoms do is sell access to the internet, and have no control over what you do access when you're connected... however they do want that control, so they can block or throttle services as they deem fit, and coerce their customers into paying extra for "superior" internet packages with features they could've otherwise gotten for less, or even free.

Maybe you should actually read about the issue before starting on the America "this and that" rant.

 

The 'kill switch' was in another article posted a few days ago which was within some new legislation, and unrelated to this one.

(for example here: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technolog...tml?autostart=1

- but I cannot see how America can assume the 'global internet' as theirs. This is like the bill they tried to pass to say America owned everything outside fo the o-zone Layer a few years ago.)

But the FCC do also want to stop people from going to certain areas of the internet.

 

Like living outside of amerikkka is any better. The uk has the Digital Economy Act (which is in force now, as of last week) and Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, amongst others. Plus the stuff that GCHQ and FIT get upto, that isn't "official".

Hierarchical "leaders" the world over want to desperately stay in control, and more draconian measures will continue to be put in place across the globe.

Megatron, you fail to see the larger picture. Once broadband is "highly regulated" by the FCC then they have the ability to control how an isp operates, what content they serve etc. An isp that doesn't toe the line will soon be shut down.

I'm all for regulation in the interest of the consumer (such as preventing certain protocols being throttled) but you have to be incredibly naive to believe that is the case here.

 

at least they keep our AM radio signals from interfering with each other.

 

You watch too much 'Family Guy'... "His chin looks like balls, shall we cover that too?"

Censorship can suck my b*lls

 

Honestly, the FCC's way is the lesser of two evils.

Either have a very small percentage of the internet blocked or censored...or...

Have the ISPs decide on a "whitelist" of sites you CAN visit (based on your current package of coarse), oh! And you can forget about "unlimited" bandwidth. anything over 20GBs will get you either shut off for the month, or dial up speeds.

 

I don't worry about this kind of stuff since it seems to never pass. And if it does, damn. (Still don't think it will happen)

 

I would imagine that the democracy of America (not trying to be an air head here saying "democracy always works" and "America is the only free country" being completely serious) would prevail.

We can easily petition and seriously protest this if it does pass. There's enough serious internet users to repeal it.

 

The FCC needs to stay the fuck out.



And how I ironic it all is -- the people who supposedly love free speech also love dictators and stricter regulation. Scumbags.