rafer:

BREAKING: Minutes ago, the FCC passed new rules — written by corporations — that will end Net Neutrality. For the first time in history, the U.S. government approved corporate censorship of the Internet, putting the future of online free speech at risk. Unbelievably, the person leading the charge was Obama appointee Julius Genachowski.

This violates President Obama’s campaign promise to protect Net Neutrality, but some media are reporting the corporate spin that this is a “Net Neutrality compromise.” It’s not — there’s no such thing as half a First Amendment. We need to set the record straight.

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1. They enshrine different rules for wired and wireless Internet — allowing big corporations to censor on your mobile phone
2. They allow corporations to set up tollbooths online, stifling new innovators like the next YouTube who can’t pay the fees the old, crusty corporations can pay
3. For the first time, they embrace a “public Internet” for regular people vs. a “private Internet” with all the new innovations for corporations who pay more — ending the Internet as we know it

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Rafer sez:
I also have to wonder about all the wonderful folks, like JuliusG, who went to work in this administration. Two years ago, he knew enough to resign before supporting this shit. Who brainwashed him?

@Rafer - So sad.  But also proves part of my point of view - it wasn’t so much that the Bush administration was problematic as it is that large Government is inherently corporatist and protectionist of existing large interests.  There is likely _no_ way to have a large government that isn’t corrupt in this manner no matter how much good a large government in theory might do at solving some societal ills.