Conservatives try to reframe net neutrality by calling it a government takeover- 2.4 million write

[cali]

letters. Stooges.

More than 2.4 million people have signed letters calling on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to stop its proposed “takeover” of the Internet in an effort by conservative activist group American Commitment to reframe the debate about the agency’s proposed net neutrality rules.

American Commitment’s letters and petition page do not refer directly to net neutrality, however. Instead, the group’s materials call on the FCC to refrain from regulating the Internet and from taking over the Internet.

The group said that it delivered the 2.4 million letters, urging Congress to stop the FCC’s net neutrality proceeding, to lawmakers this week.

“The American people have spoken clearly in urging Congress to stop any effort by the FCC to impose regulations on the Internet,” American Commitment President Phil Kerpen said. “A Washington takeover of the Internet would be disastrous for free speech, commerce, and the future of the Internet as a sphere of innovation.”
No "federal takeover" of the Internet

The group’s online petition at StopInternetRegulation.org doesn’t mention the words “net neutrality” or “open Internet,” the FCC’s term for the proposed rules.

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http://www.pcworld.com/article/2690615/conservative-group-says-24-million-opposed-to-net-neutrality-rules.html

[Gman]

1. Frankly I don't care what they call it

They got 2.4 million to respond.

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2. Cons have been framing everything as a big-gummint takeover since Lincoln.

Galldurn queer commie violated the sacred sovereignty of the law-abiding Southerners in order to take away their property and impose his Marxist equality agenda! Why, it's because of that liberal pinko that Obama is allowed to illegally occupy the WHITE House! Uppity boy don't seem to know his place!

(...said no one rational, ever.)

All kidding aside though, I love how they think it's perfectly OK for semi-monopolistic corporations like Cumcast and... well, Cumcast to "take over" the Internet, and impose unfair restrictions on stuck customers who have no viable option to choose another provider. But the minute the FCC tries to handcuff those corporations and make things fair for everyone, and for all types of content, all of a sudden we're on a slippery slope to censorship and Soviet Pravda.

This could all be solved by 1) getting Cumcast out of the way and nationalizing the Internet so that it is a public service not subject to the arbitrary whims of profiteering corporations, and 2) upgrading this country's Internet speeds to the 21st century so that nobody has to suffer the crushing isolation of 40-year-old dialup technology anymore. South Korea -- a country our "big-gummint" military helped to fork off from the (still) backwards North -- is #1 in global internet speeds. U.S. is an abysmal 10th, despite development of the Internet originally being funded by the same "big-gummint" military (DARPA) that helped establish South Korea in the first place. What we need is a courageous, take-charge Ike to take initiative on this project as the new "national highway system" of the 21st century. But sadly, all we have are primitive lunatics afraid that technology = porn, and corporate profiteers perfectly happy to continue making big cash off the status quo, and/or gouging the American people for something better.

TL;DR fuck corpo-cons and their shitty "free market" cult that deifies billion-dollar telcos and screws everyone else. Also fuck corpo-con DINOs in bed with the Big Media/Big Software copyright lobby who have been playing whack-a-mole with "pirates" since college kids were Xeroxing textbooks. It's because of them that Cumcast started their "throttling" tactic that deliberately singled out BitTorrent and large-file downloads. Net Neutrality needs to be law.