Do you guys get all your talking points from Glenn Beck?
All I ever hear from Conservatives is that Net Neutrality is an Unconstitutional scam by President Obama to control and censor what content we can access on the Internet. This could not be further from the Truth.
The concept of Network Neutrality was developed by web content hosts long before Obama became politically relevant. This principle basically states that an Internet Service Provider should not discriminate between legal, alike web content.
In other words, AT&T should not allocate more network resource to iTunes Music Store traffic than Microsoft’s Zune Marketplace, Verizon should not give preferential connections to Amazon users over Barnes and Noble Users and Comcast should not redirect users attempting to access Fox News to MSNBC’s website instead.
Furthermore, Network Neutrality is justified by Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, also known as the Commerce Clause:
“[The Congress shall have power] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes;”
Network bias can result and has in the past resulted in irregular interstate eCommerce. The Government is obligated by their Constitutional responsibilities to regulate commerce across the Internet.
All this being said, why are you all still opposed to Net Neutrality?
Again, the Conservatives who have chosen to answer are revealing their ignorance of the issue.
Network Neutrality doesn’t give the Government ownership of the Internet, nor does it give the Government control over what content is available on the Internet.
Network Neutrality does not violate the 1st Amendment in any way. If anything, Network Neutrality defends the 1st Amendment by preventing ISPs from blocking content they disagree with.
Network Neutrality does not “subsidize” heavy traffic users, no more so than people who go to an “All You Can Eat” buffet and have one plate “subsidize” those who eat more. Heavy traffic users pay an agreed price for what is advertised as “unlimited” access and they use it. Working as intended.
Finally, Network Neutrality would not make spamblockers illegal.
The goal of Network Neutrality is to protect the rights of consumers to access legal web content of their choice in a timely manner. None of you have given a good argument against it.
You answered your own question. Conservatives don’t care about the actual content, they only know Glenn is against it and it’s all Obama’s fault. Actual research would require a thought process they simply don’t have.
You are supposing that someone owns the internet, which no one does. If the government owned/regulated the internet, we would have what is happening in China. Time to get the facts.
I oppose net neutrality because it forces some people to subsidize the heavy traffic of others. Bandwidth isn’t free. And, with net neutrality I’m going to be paying to subsidize the enormous bandwidth required for people who want to download pornography, pirate movies, download music and play video games. If people want to do those things, they should pay for the bandwidth themselves.
Net neutrality assumes government has the right to regulate speech on the internet. “Prior controls” this is called in first amendment parlance. The first amendment trumps the ‘commerce clause’ even were commerce to include speech.
And I don’t listen to Glen Beck, I listen to Ron Paul.
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‘forcing’ their views on internet suppliers IS regulating the internet. Every encroachment starts somewhere.
@the party of no new taxes
Where exactly did he assume somebody owned the internet? He made it very clear that it was a commerce issue that dealt with policy’s of individual company’s, not just one that ‘owned the internet’.
YOU miss the whole point.
Glenn and others in the media, and even plain everyday, redneck, Terrorist(veterans) want one thing.
NO GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION PERIOD!
Is that so difficult to understand?
It is not the governments place to dictate what is or isn’t on the internet. PERIOD!
The only thing they “know” is what their masters tell them. Why else do you think they keep cutting off their noses to spite their faces? If they were capable of critical thinking they wouldn’t be minions of Rush freaking Limbaugh.
ETA: Argh, you morons — you have it backwards. Without net neutrality the internet will be controlled and censored via bandwidth, by corporations and government alike.
If network neutrality is enacted, it would be illegal for any network provider or program to be created that would block or redirect spam and pop ups. Read the bill carefully before you give it your support.