Deciphering Congress's Upcoming iPhone Hearings

Openleft.com presents lobbyist Ben Scott of Freepress/SaveTheInternet.com. Ben discusses Wednesday's Congressional hearing on the iPhone and an upcoming auction of spectrum by the FCC. The future of the internet is at stake, and we're beginning to see what it means in AT&T's restrictive conditions on your use and purchase of the iPhone.

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• iPhonel
• ATT
• net
• neutrality

[clemtoe]

i wish. i'm afraid thiis is the real genuine, "i'm from the government and i'm here to help you" brand of progressive grassroots activism, where progressive headhunders go out and appply "soial justice" against private producers and owners until theiy're dead and hand the bounty over to the government for a modest processing fee. sort of what bailbondsmen and other scum do.

[clemtoe]

but you're a fascist. and i hoppe that if you ever go around claiming to be champion of civil liberties that some passerby recognizes the teachability of the moment and slaps you broadly across the face. you are a fascist in a cheap, blended shirt, ben. fuck you.

[clemtoe]

you like control. you don't so much resent the type of control private owners have but don't use ("YET..." in your hysterical narrative) as you would pprefer that that control be "safely" in the hands of a grey beaurocracy. one in which you could easily find yourself, believing that you morality in holding such a position could never be mistaken for fascism because after all you only make $40k controling people's bandwidth.

[clemtoe]

one further thing. the iphone's sole and only innovation is its dual toutch screen. everything else i could do on a laptop three years ago. you're not trying to control dual-touch screen tech. you're tryying to steal the iinternet from private providers and havd it over to big brother. you know what ben? i think you're a creep. you're the only one whoos announced an agenda to control the means by which i access bandwidth in a way i can't consent to.

[clemtoe]

and 2) you speak desperately about what at&t "will" do to control what users access. why don't they do it now? what's magic about wireless that it turns at&t evil? why would the alternative ownership you seek to transfer the net to - the government - not opt to do what you presume without cause that at&t "will" do?

[clemtoe]

1) why would i need to reference my understanding of the alleged horrors of not having the internet controlled by the government to this scary, SCARY new wireless dystopia you're warning us about, if according to your controll-freak fearmongering we're already living the nightmare on the present platform.

[clemtoe]

i've never heard such stupid fear-mongering. let's start with this little self-refuting gem. "if you want to know what a non-neutral network looks like, look at the iphone." wait a minute, you assert that this network is non-"neutral" - this network in which i'm walking around watching your stupid vid and any other that i want with skype open. so...

[clemtoe]

i've never heard such stupid fear-mongering. let's start with this little self-refuting gem. "if you want to know what a non-neutral network looks like, look at the iphone." wait a minute, you assert that this network is non-"neutral" - this network in which i'm walking around watching your stupid vid and any other that i want with skype open. so...

[clemtoe]

so, esentially your organization is like a parasite which seeks to attach itself to the most successful platform and sucks on it until everything which made it up is distributed evenly as waste.

[KR3DO]

The iPhone only being on AT&T is fine. If you want an iPhone wait for your contract to be up or get a unlocked one on Ebay. The iPhone is an exclusive phone for AT&T and compare that too video games. Halo is an exclusive on Xbox 360. Should they bring it to the Sony Playstation cause people dont want to pay to buy an Xbox 360? AT&T wants money and thats why they are doing it.