The US House of Representatives definitively rejected the concept of Net neutrality on Thursday, dealing a bitter blow to Internet companies like Amazon.com, eBay and Google that had engaged in a last-minute lobbying campaign to support it. By a 269-152 vote that fell largely along party lines, the House Republican leadership mustered enough votes to reject a Democrat-backed amendment that would have enshrined stiff Net neutrality regulations into federal law and prevented broadband providers from treating some Internet sites differently from others.
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Member since:2005-10-02
Capitalism is merely a tool, and not something you can believe in. It's like believing in a spoon. Utterly inadequate.
Preventing municipalities from setting up wireless networks are irrelevant to whether people can unite and set up wireless networking. The municipalities != people.
And of course municipalities should not be allowed to do so. It would prevent competition. Networks created by municipalities == networks created by government.
Create a company, owned by "ordinary" people, create a competitor. This is doable in USA - it is doable in Denmark. It may not be doable in Communist-China, but in all western countries it is doable.
Were you born this assinine or did it take years of practice to get this way?
No. But unlike you, I don't consider communistic-tasting laws to be the answer. You are making the mistake of "local authorities == people" , and that one is false. Local authorities are authorities and thereby effectively in opposition to people of all kind.
Member since:2005-06-29
I don't consider communistic-tasting laws to be the answer.
You find this law "communistic-tasting"? Boy, you must have no idea what communism means. Please don't use words when you have no idea what they mean. This law is as much communistic as is the US constitution-- exactly, not at all.
Member since:2006-06-09
So you'd rather the corporations get us out of the next depression?
The government is just corrupt and worthless in your eyes, but corporations are shining examples of the Capitalist Tool?
Wasn't it the Capitalists "tooling" the general public that created the first depression?
Those who don't learn from the past...
Member since:2005-07-02
Local authorities are authorities and thereby effectively in opposition to people of all kind.
So what you're basically saying is that you don't believe in democracy.
If authorities are democratic, then there is no problem. Rather than place our faith in private enterprises (who only have their own interest at heart), why not try to reform government systems so that it lives up to the dreams of the founding fathers, i.e. a government of the people, by the people, for the people?
Member since:2005-07-06
Municipal wifi is no less free market than private wifi co-ops. No wireless service is a truely free-market solution. All wireless services exist because of government-sanctioned monopolies on the useage of the wireless spectrum. The fact that one service may be run by the local government and another by Verizon makes no difference --- both are regulated by virtue of the fact that their existence depends on private use of a public resource.
Member since:2005-10-02
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2006-01-26
Another brilliant idea. Create a competitor. The days of dialup are over. When the FCC already says that Cox can control their own network and nobody else can jump on, that eliminates competition. When state governments pass legislation preventing municipalities from setting up wireless networks, who do you think was behind the legislation? A true capitalist hates the thought of monopolies. Do you not believe in capitalism?
Were you born this assinine or did it take years of practice to get this way?