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I would rather have my internet supervised by corporations that the government. The government is unfaithful and cannot be trusted. It will be dominated by the political party in control which will impose its own "fairness doctrine" on what may and what may not be shared. We have seen in the last year how government dominated by one party usurps our freedoms. Does anyone question the fact that this will happen with the internet? The unions are going to try and implement "Card Check" legislation that will mandate unions in every work place. This, despite the urge by members to want a secret ballot!! Free moral agency has been thrown under the bus by heavy handed people in this administration. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely!! Obama has shown that he is will to do what he pleases, the public be damned.
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Like all radio was used for communication it is conventional and it is overused now for entertainment. Asthetic creation is controllable in Bonsaie Trees we bend their branches and shape them beautifully, it clip birds wings and we have a pet, it cuts out the bark of dogs and we have quite neighboorhoods. OK, but now about Radio waves and the FCC our Radio waves are going into space forever and into our eyes, ears, and minds for our own distorted misperceptions. What does draw a line between people and broadcasting the news and the perception everyone recieving it in realtime is getting. Based on signals intelligence in our intelligence gathering Google is able to gleen the surface of our own Nation and get a rough draft of satellite testimony of location, date, time, there is no longer a need for witnesses in realtime or a description of events with radio and satellite anymore. Intelligence does not win a war the war decides the outcome. We are always in wartime since 1955 just in times without battle our goal now is to maintain high intelligence making low casualties the goal but not eliminating the possibility of collateral damage in wartime. How does FCC involve incorporating live feed such as twitter from Iran from the inside and getting into places like North Korea where our CIA were being killed at a rate of 100% when there was a leak in our own intelligence. This is why we need to have an open an nuetral internet and to have a Government division with open accesses with Jurisdiction to any and all threats that may lead to prevention of any and all disruptions of Amrican Interests in all parts of the world where all American Interests from 1900 until the forseeable future can discern any threat against and until these threats have been prevented and defeated through the internet and in the world whereever.
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Advertisements use data too!
If the Broadband companies have their way and we all begin to get charged per MB usage, what are we going to do about all the advertisements that load on our pages? All that video, flash, or even text ads add up to a certain amount of data usage. We shouldn't have to use our monthly data allotment to load up some advertisement we never asked to see on our browser.
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Guarantee a stable, constant, broadband speed for all Americans. Doesn’t have to be 10 or 20 or even 50MB a second, I’d be happy with a guarantee speed of 1MB a second. Thank you for reading.
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to read your emails and put them in the trash if they were politically incorrect. Some of my emails now get put in the trash. Anything to keep the government out I am in favor of.
Net neutrality is speech neutering via the government.
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Now before anyone disliking regulations criticizes this idea and votes it down -- I'll say I agree in principle that there should never be over regulation but markets can't govern themselves completely -- under regulations are just as bad as over regulating.
Before Bush & Cheney were in the White House we had 30 + years of common sense, pro consumer, pro competitive Internet regulations banning mega mergers between big ISPs, forcing them to share their infrastructure with smaller ISPs, offer cheap Internet access to smaller ISPs at wholesale prices so they can then resell broadband Internet access cheaply to their own customers -- The Ma Bell system was broken up to create more competition in the emerging broadband Internet access market that was still in its infancy. Our nation's leaders realized Internet would become the future of all media one day and wanted it to be open, competitive and vibrant for users. Large Internet companies had to provide equal, fair, and unfettered access to smaller companies -- so NetZero could buy Internet access from AT&T and resell it to their customers cheaply. The U.S. Congress even passed a law the 1996 Telecommunications Act mandating the broadband Internet access market be kept open and competitive, so there can be universal, affordable access to all Americans. They saw Internet as a public utility -- and a public right -- as soon as the bill was passed AT&T complained that it was unfair that they had to provide affordable Internet access to smaller competitors. They lobbied to reverse the regulations -- what they couldn't convince the courts to undo President Bush did for them in office. There even was a National Broadband Plan before Bush entered office but what did the Bush Administration do -- massive deregulation of the Internet and scrapped the National Broadband Plan.
Due to the Bush Administration's bad policies the U.S. fell from 4th in the world in terms of broadband Internet access penetration when George W. Bush entered office in 2001 to 17th by 2005-2006 -- last I checked it is 28th.
What happened was other countries maintained their pro competitive regulatory commitments banning mergers etc and kept broadband Internet access affordable. The Bush Administration though neglected to keep up these common sense regulations and as a nation we fell behind other countries that kept up their regulations.
Last year in Europe as the Obama FCC sought to restore Net Neutrality -- a European Commissioner bragged Net Neutrality is better in Europe -- and the Internet market is more competitive there -- this Commissioner said that in Europe they would not hesitate to enforce Net Neutrality ever -- there is no dire need in Europe today for new Net Neutrality rules like in the U.S. because so much of the Internet market there is already competitive.
If we maintained our regulatory commitments during the Bush years there would not be a huge digital divide in the country today. We could have millions of more jobs (closing the digital divide can result in more job creation) and Internet for everyone rich or poor, or urban or rural. Internet companies would not be able to throttle web traffic. Big ISPs like Time Warner Cable and Comcast would be unable to prioritize and discriminate against web traffic or content. A major problem right now with cable companies is they have a conflict of interest as they also have digital cable TV services -- they might without Net Neutrality try to restrict competition from online video on demand services to their TV services.
What we need to try to do is breakup AT&T again -- spinoff SBC Communications & BellSouth from AT&T, and breakup some big cable companies -- forbid providers of TV or Internet service from owning content -- there should be Net Neutrality making every ISP a dumb pipe taking you to the same Internet and providing equal access to all. We need to restore the regulations the Bush Administration abandoned and enforce the regulations we have.
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I turned off my internt on my Blackberry and started saving $20.00 on my T-Mobile bill. I dropped Facebook and do Twitter via SMS now. 9 people are following me on twitter I know them via e-mail some are authors, professors, and news anchors. Twitter is a rich line of technology along with e-mail in between the instant teetws of cyber time. Money I save can go towards goals because of the cognitive technology in my life. Leaving Facebook is a temporary choice because it does not provide a healthy cognitive online only relationship. Facebook is commonplace among older adults talking about normal routine of typical life rather than a cognitive advancment. Twitter is amongst for whoever knows who you are there for at any moment in cybertime to listen in to your realtime cognitive advances and attain cyber and human attention at any place on Earth.
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The FCC should consider the impact of today's Supreme Court decision, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, No. 08-205, on the access of individuals and small organizations to the electronic media. Clearly, with corporations free to engage in political speech, the Commission should work to support media for the citizens such as Internet broadcasting under a system of network neutrality. The candidates and policies favored by large corporations will get a lot of money and airtime. America will need an open Internet where individuals and small organizations can present their candidates and policies. In addition, the Commission should expand the low power FM (LPFM) broadcasting service by allowing establishment of the 10-Watt broadcasting stations. Also, the Commission should issue a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) on my proposal for neighborhood oriented millimeter wave broadcasting service. My proposal for millimeter-wave broadcasting is made all that more useful by the possible court action against the Commission on network neutrality. The text of my proposal is attached to this message.
Nickolaus E. Leggett
Analyst
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We can't let this go on any longer. We all know by now that big corporations are in bed with big government, (back door politics,),(payoffs), no matter what country your in. It's all about greed and control over the populace. Our rights as U.S. citizens have been reduced by half since the enactment of Homeland Security, in other words, we have already lost half of our "Bill of Rights" and now their attacking our beloved U.S. Constitution with "Obama Care". It goes against our U.S. constitution to force American citizens to buy anything just because your a citizen! Do your homework America! The new President and his administration are no different from the last or the one before that, or the one before that! It's gone from bad to worse, and it can and will get worse beyond belief if we don't start sticking up for ourselves!!!!! Say "NO" America! The world believe it or not, is watching us closely, watching what we are going to do, because we are the free (supposedly), we are the strong! Big government and big corporate America have been taking more than their fair share for a long time!!! How much more are you willing to give up? I for one don't want to be told how to live my own life, what websites I can go on, or what television shows I can watch! How many children I can have, or what car I can drive, or even where I can live! Get your hands out of my pockets, because I have no more to give. I don't want your health care, I don't want to be controlled, this is my right as a U.S. citizen!!!! If you become familiar with your Bill of Rights, and the U.S. Constitution, you will understand what I'm talking about!!!!! As far as I'm concerned, if the FCC doesn't stop this insanity, then they are no better than the one's who created this issue in the first place. To the FCC, you know whats right, you know what needs to be done, just do it, and be done with it!!!!!
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These laws will keep privately owned companies, who are not accountable to the public, from limiting and controlling your internet access. Can you imagine trying to log onto, for example, GOP.com one day and getting a blank page because your internet service provider, which is owned by a democratic activist, has been paid by the DNC to stifle republican communication?
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I am opposed to any government regulation of the Internet. Simply put, it's unrestricted use is essential to freedom of speech; to electronic commerce; to freedom of association (since it provides a means by which people widely separated in distance can work toward common goals as diverse as simple personal contact or as important as business meetings); to free exchange of ideas; to open debate on many subjects. And there are a host of other things facilitated by the Internet.
As soon as nonmarket forces begin to regulate something it begins to discriminate against certain interests and give preference to others. This is not the way a free society should operate.
I cannot see this OpenInternet idea being beneficial. It looks more like government regulation of print media would look -- like censorship. The censorship may not be intended, but that would be the inevitable result nevertheless.
I strongly urge the FCC to take a completely hands-off attitude about this, our most important means of communication since the invention of the telegraph.
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If the major ISPs succeed in bullying the FCC into allowing them to dictate terms regarding what happens on the 'net, new companies will form to offer access that is free of restrictions. As soon as this type of access becomes available again, users will leave the restrictive ISPs in droves. Serves 'em right!
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"if it ain't broke don't fix it"... Is an age-old saying that still holds true. The capitalist system continutes to work fine. Keep government regulations to the demonstrated necessary minimum and let good-old fashioned US competition take place.
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Found this interesting quote on Americans for Prosperity website, "You may also want to browse around the site and vote down some of the radical left-wing comments."
Well, this type of logic can work against your interests IMHO
Let's work to make the Internet safe from these cowboys's that want to keep the internet like the wild-wild-west.
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After you give them the internet.......then what? They took the car companies (except Ford, who they are trying to regulate out of business). They took the banks and are trying to place confiscatory taxes on the successful ones under the guise of TARP recovery.
They want to take over the health industry and reward all their cronies with endless control, pwoer and money in the process.
So, next is the internet?
Then what?
Lets think about Chavez and Venezuela.....maybe the TV companies? Cause some of those meanies say badddd things about the gov't and our dear leader - can't have that, now can we?
Maybe they can take over the electric power industry - from generation to distribution to sales. Then they can control CO2 emissions and protect us from the gas we breath out every 3 seconds of our lives. Oh and that can prevent global warming....bwaa ha ha ha. Pretty warm in Florida this month, huh?
It won't be long and there won't be anything left.
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The answer is simple: abolish must-carry. With must-carry, broadcasters don't need network neutrality because they have something better: preferred access into every cable, telco, and satellite subscription home in America. Take away must-carry, and they'd be beating down the door of every member of Congress and FCC member to sanctify network neutrality as an inherent right of every American and as American as apple pie. Of course, I'm not saying taking away must-carry would be politically easy to do. But I believe the time has come to make this case. For more details on broadcaster political power and how this contorts the public policy debate, see BroadcastBandBullsh?t.info.
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We need to protect Net Neutrality for the sake of the values on which our nation was founded. Every day more Americans become cynical and disengaged from the political process as they see, in their view, an America that is being sold to the highest corporate bidder. As the Internet becomes more and more a part of the fabric of each of our daily lives, it becomes increasingly important to keep it free: as a medium of communication and commerce for all people, not merely a source of profit for a few large businesses.
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Keep the government out of the Internet. It's already free, open, and competitive. There is no reason whatsoever for our tax dollars to get anywhere near this very successful societal tool.
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The Commission should establish a broadband “Bill of Rights” that will allow individual Americans and small organizations the basic right to broadcast and communicate over broadband. This Bill of Rights should include the following features:
1. All individual Internet stations have the right to broadcast and communicate over the Internet without interference by corporations and/or government.
2. Any charges or fees must be applied equally to users without favoritism.
3. If broadband usage exceeds existing capacity, usage can be rationed (in terms of bits per second) with all Internet users having the same proportional reduction in capacity for the duration of the shortage. There must be no favoritism at all for large organizations.
4. Government and/or private organizations may not monitor the content of Internet transmissions unless such monitoring is done by lawful court order. This will establish the appropriate privacy of Internet web casts, web sites, and email traffic.
5. First Amendment rights on the Internet shall be the same as the First Amendment rights for print and radio/TV broadcast media.
6. Intellectual property rights, such as copyright, shall be the same as the rights applying to print and radio/TV broadcast media.
7. All Internet station journalists and bloggers shall be recognized as legitimate journalists with the same rights of access as print or conventional broadcast station journalists.
8. The freedom of association and assembly shall apply to gatherings conducted on the Internet.
We must protect all Americans’ access to Internet broadcasting and all other uses of the Internet. This is basic to America’s democratic future.
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I attended this workshop yesterday, and I got to listen to and converse with several of the panelists. The frustrating talk that I heard a lot from people on the panel was how, "well if this isn't profitable for the monopoly isps, then i guess we'll have to...
*pay more
*go slower
*do less
*give up freedom
*compromise
so that they can remain profitable when they 'offer us internet service.'"
The representative from lucent went as far as to draw a chart that forebodingly portended an end to profit for the isps by 2014 or so, if we don't make severe cuts in speeds, raise prices, limit data, or do something like that.
But their whole entire thought pattern has this one huge blind spot. The Internet is not, and never was supposed to be just some kind of profit making service offered by cable and phone companies. The internet was making an end run AROUND such entities, and they have scrambled to regain their choke hold on our ability to send and receive information.
We should not be measuring the 'profit that the cable company makes' to determine if a level of service is worthwhile, but we should measure the profit to society as a whole, which is many orders of magnitude greater than what some cable company is making. We really can't go worrying about whether or not a cable company is making a profit when there is so much more benefit to making as fast a network as possible, and upgrading that network as often as possible, reaching the limits of inventors' imaginations, not the limits set by a marketing department in a monopoly "provider."
It evidently is not enough to just force these companies to be fair to all of us netizens. We are going to have to make a serious investment in R&D as well as deploying far more infrastructure, including fiber to every premise in the nation.
If investing in building out national information infrastructure hurts a cable company who wants to make lots of money from us, then too bad. We are all much more important than their bottom line. They should go the way of compuserve with their slow, inferior service, if they can't compete with the best network physically possible.
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I'm a high school student. I care about Net Neutrality. Why? Because my generation is going to run this country in 10 years. All the creativity on the web comes from young minds like ours. The executives that run the companies that control these "pipes" don't understand what the internet truly is to us. They didn't grow up with it, but they still feel entitled to "owning it". The internet is a collaborative effort. Don't let the old, greedy minds make decisions that will impact how future generations, along with the existing young generations like mine, access the internet. We need Net Neutrality more than ever. Most high schoolers my age don't know or even care what Net Neutrality is. However, believe me - I speak for the majority of them. Whether it be VoIP, HTTP, or P2P, they should all be treated equally. Please take action.
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Free Internet is one of the last sources of real, raw open communication that the people have left. It's become essential not only in our daily lives on a personal/leisure level, but for brick-and-mortar comapanies, media outlets, and for individual start-ups. For writers to find an audience for their voice, for critics to express their distaste or fondness of a film/book/etc., and for family to catch up & keep in contact. What would we do without these platforms that enhance our lives? Any step taken to limit our accessibility would simply be a step backwards.
The internet has become a global commons. A place where anyone and everyone is allowed access & where no person or state make take ownership or take control.
So many other aspects of life have already become privatized; things that we need access to or are required to have like auto insurance. Water. Electricity. The most obvious example is health care. Privatization of health care has not benefited the majority of American citizens and neither will the privatization of the internet.
Americans need to put their foot down and refuse that this happen. We don't need corporations like ISPs controlling yet another part of our lives.
Censorship should never be accepted and will not be tolerated.
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The Internet is of immense importance to keep Neutral and Free! Net neutrality mirrors some of the same Freedoms of the CONSTITUTION of the UNITED STATES. The Internet allows a Wealth of information and Opportunity for People to share and prosper through Communication, Learning, Education, Commerce, Jobs and the pleasure of Freedom and Intelligence Gathering; which is part of our Make-up as People.
We all grow and strive to succeed, sometimes through technology which changes and evolves as we do.
Please keep this passion we have for connections and change in the hands of the individual; after all this is how the writers of the Constitution percieved the Americas to become, the right to choose with Individual Liberty. What person is not happy when exploring and finding new paths in life. It could be Emails ,Shopping experiences, Friends, Family or even Research such as a Medical Innovation or the Mars Space Program just to name a few.
Knowledge is invaluble and incredibly prosperous WHEN THE... Internet Make Us Intelligent..... Fluent..... and.... guides us to places and things we have never known before.
The founders of the internet realized the significance of broadening the scope by making this Marvelous Invention "Universal" for all people to embellish ,improve, and enrich lives with Video, Sports, News, Alerts, Advice, Connections to loved ones and the freedom to explore with opportunity and passion, many are driven to improve the Internet through Businesses and Finance for instance the Stock Markets with live data. The "Internet holds the Building Blocks to encourage great things for anyone and everyone, anywhere in anyplace at anytime".
DO NOT LEAVE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ADVANCES IN THIS TECHNOLOGICAL ERA TO BODY OF COMPANIES OR GROUPS SUCH AS TELECOMS, GOVERNMENTS OR COMMUNICATIONS FOR AN ADVANCEMENT OF CONTROL OVER THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET. THESE GROUPS WILL BECOME OVERZELOUS WITH GREED CONTROL AND MANIPULATION .
If this were to happen the Internet would sieze to become as transparent and open as it is now!! Please make this Vow to keep Net Free and open for individuals, all Race, Size, Age, Color, Demographic, Voice, Speech, Ethnic, and Origin.... Free Now and Forever and Ever!!
Duane......
An Individual.. A Father, A Student ......... and a Voice.
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Eliminate the monetary corporate control over the use of the internet. Best choice is to Nationalize. User-controlled, not private-corruption-controlled.
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