Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 9th Jun 2006 11:22 UTC, submitted by Dylan
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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Peope do not voluntarily associate with the government. That's a lot of nonsense. At least they don't in Denmark. Nor anywhere else in the western world.
That should have been clear with the Cartoon Crisis.
I don't let society decide for me all of the time. And I never will let it decide for me all of the time. I may however choose to follow the rules, to the extent I consider the rules reasonable. But if the law sucks don't count on me abiding by it. Nor count on anybody else to do so. That would be naïve.
The laws do not necessarily manifest the choices of the people. That's the theory, but not the reality. It would require uncorrupt politicians.
The idea of democracy is to let each individual make his/her own decision within own domain.