Saturday, October 31, 2009
"'Net Neutrality' Is Socialism, Not Freedom"
This looks like a case of here we go again.
The free-market driven Internet is working so badly (just kidding) that it needs to be managed by the historically high efficient (just kidding) entity known as government...
The free-market driven Internet is working so badly (just kidding) that it needs to be managed by the historically high efficient (just kidding) entity known as government...
James G. Lakely writes about it at WashingtonExaminer.com:
"The modern Internet is a creation of the free market, which has brought about a revolution in communication, free speech, education, and commerce. New Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski apparently doesn't like that. He stated last month the way Internet service providers manage their networks -- in response to millions of individual consumer choices -- is not sufficiently 'fair,' 'open' or 'free.'
The chairman's remedy is to claim for the FCC the power to decide how every bit of data is transferred from the Web to every personal computer and handheld device in the nation. This is exactly what the radical founders of the net neutrality movement had in mind. "
