John McCain Unveils Bill To Block Net Neutrality
From his press release:
This government takeover of the Internet will stifle innovation, in turn slowing our economic turnaround and further depressing an already anemic job market. Outside of health care, the technology industry is the nation’s fastest growing job market. ... Just this month, Google and Yahoo both released positive earnings reports.
That is the biggest load of crock. Up until last year we had Net Neutrality and it produced Google, Yahoo, etc, etc. Now he wants to ensure its demise? Is he an idiot?
This is what Google and Yahoo have to say about Net Neutrality:
From a letter (Google and Yahoo) wrote to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce in 2006:
Until FCC decisions made last summer, consumers’ ability to choose the content and services they want via their broadband connections was assured by regulatory safeguards. … This “innovation without permission” has fueled phenomenal economic growth, productivity gains, and global leadership for our nation’s high tech companies.
To preserve this environment, we urge the Committee to include language that directly addresses broadband network operators’ ability to manipulate what consumers will see and do online.
So, indeed, the biggest and smallest high tech companies in the computer industry want net neutrality. Net Neutrality would create jobs within the telecom industry on the investors back and not burden the tax payers. It would continue the phenomenal growth of the internet instead of making everyone pay tax to the cartel. (Can we go RICO on them already?) We'd get better, faster service at cheaper rates. Who doesn't want that? OH YEAH. the telecoms. duh.
McCain was the top recipient of campaign contributions from the telecom industry, taking in $894,379 in the past two years.
Now we know why McCain is facsist... he places telecom corporate interests ahead of democracy, jobs, innovation, freedom, and speech. Bought and paid for.
Per the update:
Telecoms, Internet service providers -- they already have a kind of monopoly. The idea here [with net neturality] is to prevent them from abusing that monopoly. ... They want freedom all right. They want to find new ways to charge us more money. [...]
Whenever there's a fight on the Internet, it's always good to side with the geeks who built the Internet, rather than the fat-cat telecom lobbyists.
This couldn't be any more clear. Net Neutrality good, Telecom bad. The FCC should break them up for just suggesting that their power be enhanced and the fact that they are a force to be dealt with. If that doesn't say monopoly, I don't know what does.