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joshcryer

(62,276 posts)
Thu Feb 26, 2015, 04:21 PM Feb 2015

On net neutrality the corporate sellout President strikes again!

Net neutrality is a corporate scheme by certain companies to make sure that all traffic on the internet is treated equally, this scheme, corporate by design, and corporate to the core, allows these companies to fleece great Internet Service Providers of the costly bandwidth that they should by right be allowed to control.

Internet Service Providers provide a great service to all internet users, and while the US government allowed them to lay fiber all across the country at low rates, and indeed, helped subsidize their creation, they deserve every right on this planet to charge whatever they want for various services.

The President has fallen to the whims of such corporations as airbnb, Amazon, AOL, auction.com, eBay, Etsy, Expedia, facebook, GILT, Google, Groupon, IAC, LinkedIn, lft, Monster, Netflix, Pandora, practice fusion, rackspace, reddit, salesforce, Sidecar, SurveyMonkey, tripadvisor, Twitter, Yahoo, yelp, uber, zynga, About.com, Ask.com, Dictionary.com, flicker, half.com, Hotels.com, Match.com, okcupid, PayPal, redlaser.com, StubHub, and vimeo. Their corporate hold over the President as a sellout to wall street and the domination of corporations over our highly valued internet service providers is a disgrace.

Shame on you Mr. President for falling for the whims of the corporations and forcing the FCC to implment net neutrality. Shame on the Democratic chairpeople on the FCC for voting for net neutrality. This will destroy the internet as we know it, if only for the likes of Amazon and Google and AOL and eBay and Twitter, those corporate overlords will continent to erode our freedom to be fleeced by ISPs.

If it's not obvious.

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On net neutrality the corporate sellout President strikes again! (Original Post) joshcryer Feb 2015 OP
Obama's concession to corporate control of the internet... joshcryer Feb 2015 #1
I'm liking these last two years so far. n/t pnwmom Feb 2015 #2
It fits his "authoritarian" profile and he's no different than Bush. BumRushDaShow Feb 2015 #3
Wheeler was a cable company shill before being appointed! joshcryer Feb 2015 #4
Yup BumRushDaShow Feb 2015 #5
This thread is a good one, too: joshcryer Feb 2015 #6
Kicking this, josh. Hekate Feb 2015 #7

joshcryer

(62,276 posts)
1. Obama's concession to corporate control of the internet...
Thu Feb 26, 2015, 04:59 PM
Feb 2015

...is going to set a precedent for the future! Corporate sellout wall street lackies, political cronyism, corporate handlers, it's all by design.

BumRushDaShow

(129,339 posts)
5. Yup
Thu Feb 26, 2015, 08:13 PM
Feb 2015

Many in this thread prognosticated it so well tool!!!! They even got it "right" about the Chained CPI that is in place!!!11!!1!!

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