On Sep 30, 6:36*pm, N∅ ∅baMa∅
wrote:
New Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski
could have used a few more dollops of genuine humility in his Monday
speech advocating enforceable “network neutrality” rules for the
Internet. Despite declaring “we cannot know what tomorrow holds on the
Internet,” he showed he intends to lead the FCC as if it were all-
knowing. That will only end up choking the greatest engine of
innovation in modern times.
Genachowski laid out his plans in a highly anticipated speech at the
Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. The mostly voluntary concept
of net neutrality — which encourages the free flow of content across
the Internet — would be transformed into formal rules Internet service
providers (ISPs) would violate at their peril.
Instead of managing traffic in response to market forces, ISPs would
be forced to cede such decisions to the FCC, which would decide which
practices are “fair” and “reasonable” on a “case-by-case basis.” But
it would be foolish to replace the swift judgment of millions of
consumers with the dictates of a handful of slow-footed, uninformed,
unaccountable bureaucrats.
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Thank god. The future of the internet was looking pretty grim for a
while there.
Ooooooooohhh, regulation! Poor consumers, not gonna get to shape the
future of the.....wait, wait, I is a consumer! Did I SHAPE through the
natural genius of the MARKET and my thus endowed POWER my relationship
with Google (track me track me)? With my mortgage company (now that's
cheating, pick on the poor mortgage companies when they're down, poor
angels)? With Microsoft (I'm gonna get me a better word processor
spreadsheet powerpoint an' ever otha kindo softwares raht now dang
it !!!! )? With my gentle, loving bank, caring for my best interest,
Wells Fargo? With my beloved airlines (it's ok, just go to the
bathroom in the seat, we gotta get off this tarmack sometime this
week, otherwise it'll cause a GLITCH in the profits!! And you can rest
assuuuuured, young lady, that your government ain't gonna touch a hair
on the precious head of our free airline market
forcesssssssszzzzz!!!! )
Gee, I guess I musta! An I DIDN"T FEEL A THING! Free markets
haleluuuuuuuah *&*)$&*^& shoot them commies raht now sir *()&^%$ !!!
And who am I ??????? The voice of REASON !!!! TRUTH incarnate and no
less!! Listen, heathens!! Repent, protectors of the ole joke about
the bartender, the lobbyist, the congressman, and the CEO !!!!
Yessuh....yessuh.....