Dar is clearly on the payroll for a telecom company - yesterday, (s)he spent roughly 9 hours straight doing nothing but commenting and voting, and today has done the same for roughly a "day's work." A quick click on his/her name will show the comments history. His/her arguments, which are clearly on the side of de-regulated freedom for large corporations to be free to do whatever they please at the expense of the public good, are wrought with fallacies - too many to list! From straw-men to red herrings to flat-out misinformation, the fallacious grasping of the telecom companies to find justification for "freely" screwing the Public Good are despicable. Dar - try making a valid argument in favor of why it's a good idea to let a few mega-corporations with virtual monopolies (and a minuscule population who profits from them) be free to profit at the expense of the PUBLIC GOOD, because that's what the argument is about. There's no chance for real competition at that level anymore, and you know it, and so do our politicians.
The free market is good for some things, but certainly NOT for others. The way some people treat the idealistic (as in not realistic) free market as dogmatic gospel really have their heads in the clouds. That's just not how the world works, and the greedy & power hungry will never let it work that way. The corporate oligarchy that we live with now is barely recognizable as a "free market," have you noticed?
Public utilities are something that should not be left to private corporations to censor and throttle - and the Internet has become a public utility in practice. Sometimes the pragmatic Public Good needs to overshadow unattainable ideals.
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