John McCain Wants To CENSOR The Internet

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October 23, 2009 MSNBC Keith Olbermann

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News & Politics

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• Senator
• John
• McCain
• CENSOR
• Internet
• net
• neutrality

[Plutonwolf]

Could I interest you in internet censorship imposed by Disney corp? How about Viacom or Time-Warner?

[ReliableInsider]

Is McCain right?

Can we trust corporations to make the decisions about what we we deserve fast access to and which websites we don't deserve to have fast access to?

Nope.

Can we trust telecoms to pick winners and losers?

Nope.

Telecoms should not be allowed to play God and artificially turn the download speed of a website up or down by filtering.

[tallyhoman911]

john mccain is an idiot

[metaltwinke]

this video stopped playing to me at 5:41!

[Webins]

Methinks Rachel and 'Xeni' exchanged numbers afterwards.

And that's my comment for today.

[enemigosocultos]

Now everyone line up, roll up the bill, and take turn slapping his left cheek with it until his inner evil comes out. Then, we slap his wife (for her great idea) with it too until she shows some financial concern for her fellow citizens in the low and middle class.

[picklebarrels]

By the way, for your pirate argument: Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Usage statistics indicate 12.4GB average/mo wordlwide, and the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute estimates 15GB average/mo US.

ISP rates vary, of course, by which sector you're talking about. In most cases, they're very hesitant any statistics at all, but most ISPs readily admit average bandwidth usage will jump tenfold in the coming decade (see Bell at the conference "Life in a Digital Fishbowl", Feb '09)

[picklebarrels]

Startup ISPs are very hard to come by for many people. Getting service at all is sometimes difficult, especially in your scenario where collusion happens.

I understand hesitance at codifying anything. But the push behind this is coming from content and IP-based service providers, not Nancy Pelosi.

De facto net neutrality is why the internet is the way it is today. Why should ISPs be able to virtually run by proxy all IP-based unrelated businesses? It makes no sense.

[waltermh111]

Competition has been shown time and time again to not work also.

You can ignore the failures, but it doesnt make them go away.

I dont know what modern telecoms have to do with anything.

Really, what about it?

That because theres competition somewhere that it cant fail anywhere?

Much of modern telecom comes from gov help and the old anti-trust case that broke up the old bell company. Forget exact company name.

Yes, failure to provide ethicly/legally gives the right to dictate it do so.

[waltermh111]

First, I dont want a dozen different lines being put through the city.

Do you know how much digging up of our city that would cause?

Second, you think just asking for another ISP will produce the money for somebody to start one?

The barrier to entry on such things is extremely high. Whos going to give that multi-million dollar loan which may never be paid back?

And then when that new ISP finds out they can get away with ripping us off, what, get another ISP to put down more lines?