What good are our voices and ears if they can only speak and hear our own opinions?

The American Public and the FCC need to keep an eye on ISPs. Comcast has been censoring conservative message board posters in my opinion. Because dominant ISP Comcast is a gateway to the internet, they control many eyeballs. Comcast’s systematic censoring of conservative opinions on their News & Current Events message boards needs to cease and desist. If Comcast gets tax breaks from local government, then they have a civic, ethical, moral and perhaps legal obligation to provide fair and balanced moderation of their message boards. This type of social engineering is an outrage. Please get involved. Silence is consent. Post a conservative response to a News or Current Events thread here and see for yourself.

http://community.comcast.net/comcastportal/board?board.id=news

This is America…Not CHINA

Maybe you could at least validate your opinion with some sort of argument? At least my opinion on the situation comes from the point of view of someone who works as an IT professional. I’m an outsourced IT director… where do you work, Zero, and why should anyone care what you think on the subject when you can’t even form a response that utilizes one grammatically correct sentence?

Tell you what, you can either side with net neutrality, or against it like Kay Bailey Hutchinson here, the choice is yours. I don’t really trust Republicans when it comes to issues of censorship and helping out actual Americans in lieu of helping corporations, though… especially not republicans from Texas. But sure, she probably has a firmer grasp on what would be a better way to handle the internet than the people drafting the net neutrality bill, right?

How about Hulu? Do you think that cuts into their business a wee bit, being as they are a cable company? I’ve seen Hulu run much smoother on 1.5-3 mbps dsl connection than a 25mbps connection from Comcast at times… yet bandwidth tests reveal that the Comcast connection is still operating at full capacity. Perhaps this has already happened? We all know about how Comcast handled bit torrent in the past.

I have another problem with your point of view on the net neutrality issue. If we do not pass SOME sort of bill on net neutrality and do, in fact, allow the providers to charge you (assumedly the current rate… why drop it if they know you want/need internet on some level?) for a lesser internet, or tiered system, etc, while giving businesses access to everything/more bandwidth, then we re-appropriate the current bandwidth to a system which allows the providers to get away with relying on the current implementation instead of having a reason to upgrade service. You talk about your friend’s opinion that it isn’t in the interest of ISPs to offer slow and patchy connectivity, but why wouldn’t it be if they can get away with not upgrading the system longer than they already have? If you were to suddenly lose half of the things you do on the internet, would you still be able to go cold turkey and cut off ALL internet in retaliation? No email? No google maps? No Rogue Mammoth? I like to think I know you pretty well, and I think you would still end up paying for internet. What if they didn’t even drop the price for the service you were getting? It’s still a no. We are currently TWENTY EIGHTH in average broadband speed among industrialized nations. By keeping the internet NEUTRAL, we force Comcast and other ISPs to offer MORE bandwidth through newer implementations, rather than allow them to keep charging for existing systems for the next decade or two… kind of like how we are letting them get away with not committing to a fully digital switchover in television, even though all over-the-air stations have been forced to.

Whatever, I’m a little drunk right now, but felt the need to post some sort of a response to this. I’ll end with pointing out that the government of this country doesn’t give a fuck what you or anyone else thinks about pretty much anything. That said, do you really think they have to try and censor the internet under the guise of Net Neutrality? A previous article of yours stated that only somewhere around 38% (can’t remember the exact number) of Americans believed in evolution. Don’t you think they could get these 60 odd percent of creationists to go onboard with a plan to censor the internet in some way or another, without having to sneak it by? Remember, there’s always a way to divide the nation so that you are in the minority on ANY subject, it’s all about how you spin it.