More Net Neutrality Opposition In the US

[nsane.forums]

On Tuesday, MetroPCS — the fifth-largest wireless carrier in the US — filed a lawsuit, alongside the one filed by Verizon last week. The company hopes to overturn the FCC’s Net Neutrality order passed in December.

The suit comes after public interest groups, including Free Press, raised concerns over MetroPCS’ new 4G service plans that appear to allow subscribers unlimited access to certain applications like YouTube, but would block others including Netflix and Skype. MetroPCS has not yet responded to the groups’ allegations, indicating that it would do so by February 11.

Free Press Policy Counsel M. Chris Riley made the following statement:

Instead of responding to the public outcry over its walled-garden practices by offering open Internet access services, MetroPCS has chosen to follow the lead of Verizon Wireless and sue the FCC to strike down the Commission’s weak, loophole-ridden rules. Like a thief caught red-handed, MetroPCS — rather than change its ways — is now trying to legalize stealing.

What we’re seeing are the early signs of a full scale assault on the open Internet. MetroPCS hopes that by helping to vacate the rules in court, it will be able to continue with its anti-consumer, anti-competitive practices of blocking popular applications like Skype and Netflix unless its subscribers pay a steep ransom.

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[Ambrocious]

If I said I was going to neutralize a person, that means that I would be killing that person, in most cases. So they want to pass the net neutrality law and expect people to fall for the lies that it's all for our safety? It's a power grab, plain and simple. Destroy the current standing internet and put in place THEIR version of a very filtered "worse than China" kind of internet that can easily have an up datable blacklist which will force all ISP's to abide by the blacklists. This is another form of censorship because the people of the world are expanding in knowledge due to an open and free internet, threatening to have an equality with the elite of the world who's secrets are being revealed to the public, which they simply hate the idea that we might have a foothold over them or even on the same level as them.

Eventual people need to realize that we all have the same potential to be on the same level and that no one should be kings or queens over one another. A system of universal order that ALL people can agree to without it being forced upon us. The idea of a universal order in which everyone will agree to is simply a pipe dream because people in positions of power wish to shove it down our throats and make us join together via chaos and crisis. Click HERE to download "Order Out Of Chaos" to see the mindset of the worlds power structure.

[malakai1911]

To say that net neutrality would allow the government to regulate the internet, the proposition is ridiculous. In no bill that I know of has any such thing been proposed. That is like saying that the first amendment actually restricts the freedom of speech, and that the bill of rights is just a governmental power grab.

Here's the latest proposed bill that I know of: http://thehill.com/images/stories/whitepapers/pdf/proposed_net_neutrality_legislative_framework-1.pdf

It's only three pages long. Instead of buying into alarmist right-wing propoganda, perhaps you should read the bill and understand the issue.

Net Neutrality means no discrimination. Net Neutrality prevents Internet providers from blocking, speeding up or slowing down Web content based on its source, ownership or destination....The free and open Internet brings with it the revolutionary possibility that any Internet site could have the reach of a TV or radio station. The loss of Net Neutrality would end this unparalleled opportunity for freedom of expression.

—SaveTheInternet.com FAQ

[HX1]

Yep.. and that is what I read on the thing too... :thumbsup:

There were a few more points to it..but all in this regard... simply put... Blind fear is not intelligent decision making... all too often we expect the same that we see of ourselves trying to survive I think.. we make decisions based on those perceptions without weighing in the real details... and using the facts to form our understanding... It can be a horrible thing to have to stand up against, in both directions... and even on the levels where this perception is bought into and ran with.. major obstacle in many cases to being able to actually make progress in any area... for anyone... I think its the first step and the most important one to being able to change things for the better or ever getting anywhere.. rather than taking a militant anarchist stance... or living out a conspiracy theory in our minds... It may also show how much we don't want the thing we actually show the fear of... :huh:

There is beauty in seeing the human race fight for its love and freedom... There is beauty in a revolution... but ignoring the whole basis of it which is a higher level of thinking and keeping the important things first... Isn't quite what it is anymore but something else.. something that ends in the same way or up the same way as the thing it was brought to take down..