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Title: Net Neutrality and Why You Should Be Thrilled....
Post by: FOTD on October 30, 2009, 02:51:36 PM
McCain Lost!

http://gizmodo.com/5391712/net-neutrality-worst-case

Can you imagine what kind of mayhem McCain would have created? The wingnuts don't know how lucky the country is not to have the fear of Palin replacing a senile President. My neighbor, a doctor no less, still has a McCain/Palin bumper sticker on his vehicle displaying his overt stupidity...
Title: Re: Net Neutrality and Why You Should Be Thrilled....
Post by: Conan71 on October 30, 2009, 02:53:58 PM
Okay, nothing there on the link that remotely covers the point you were trying to make.  I still see a Sore/Loserman bumper sticker every now and then, so what?
Title: Re: Net Neutrality and Why You Should Be Thrilled....
Post by: FOTD on October 30, 2009, 02:57:59 PM
Quote from: Conan71 on October 30, 2009, 02:53:58 PM
Okay, nothing there on the link that remotely covers the point you were trying to make.  I still see a Sore/Loserman bumper sticker every now and then, so what?

Yes there is....are you still sporting a McCain/Palin sticker on your trycycle?

Ok. It's freaking scary, once again, legislators not listening to what the public wants.
Title: Re: Net Neutrality and Why You Should Be Thrilled....
Post by: Conan71 on October 30, 2009, 02:59:47 PM
Okay, if someone can decipher wth the message is on that page, fill me in.  I must have my obtuse glasses on today.
Title: Re: Net Neutrality and Why You Should Be Thrilled....
Post by: MichaelBates on October 30, 2009, 03:13:01 PM
The point of the Gizmodo post is that we can expect our Internet access to be tiered like cable if Net Neutrality isn't approved.

I haven't checked for a while, but there used to be a "Bus Bellmon to Panama" sticker on a utility pole at 51st and Harvard. It was there for at least 25 years.
Title: Re: Net Neutrality and Why You Should Be Thrilled....
Post by: FOTD on October 30, 2009, 03:23:16 PM
Quote from: MichaelBates on October 30, 2009, 03:13:01 PM
The point of the Gizmodo post is that we can expect our Internet access to be tiered like cable if Net Neutrality isn't approved.

I haven't checked for a while, but there used to be a "Bus Bellmon to Panama" sticker on a utility pole at 51st and Harvard. It was there for at least 25 years.

Dern....was hoping to leave CoCo in the dark...

Title: Re: Net Neutrality and Why You Should Be Thrilled....
Post by: cannon_fodder on October 30, 2009, 04:23:01 PM
I should be thrilled that the government is begging to regulate the Internet because it means McCain "lost" something or other?  I don't get it.
Title: Re: Net Neutrality and Why You Should Be Thrilled....
Post by: Hoss on October 30, 2009, 04:32:14 PM
Quote from: cannon_fodder on October 30, 2009, 04:23:01 PM
I should be thrilled that the government is begging to regulate the Internet because it means McCain "lost" something or other?  I don't get it.

I believe it's because he introduced a bill to kill net neutrality.  Killing net neutrality would essentially do what the link intonates.
Title: Re: Net Neutrality and Why You Should Be Thrilled....
Post by: brianh on November 01, 2009, 12:16:11 PM
Found this the other day.  This is the general concept of what an ISP like AT&T/Comcast wants to do to your internet.  And the problem is they own a lot of the cross country fiber and can control this kind of thing at will. This is why I feel we need net neutrality.

http://i.imgur.com/5RrWm.png