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Preserve Internet Freedom — Beware Obama’s Net Neutrality
Hat tip: JBS.org
Written by Larry Greenley
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
A few years ago I was momentarily fooled by the “net neutrality” campaign. At that time I was surprised to see a coalition for net neutrality featuring liberal MoveOn.org and conservative Gun Owners of America. I just checked and this coalition is still in effect.
More recently I haven’t been paying attention to the net neutrality issue. I was surprised yesterday to learn that President Obama is a big backer of net neutrality. Here’s a 50-second video of Obama speaking at Google back on November 14, 2007, where he said, “I will take a back seat to no one in my commitment to network neutrality.”
In contrast, constitutionalist Congressman Ron Paul is opposed to net neutrality regulation of the Internet based on his opposition to government regulation and support for a free market economy, as you can see in this 56-second video:
Move to End “Internet Neutrality”: Blow to Bloggers. “Ten Pin Strike against Political Freedom”
by Sherwood Ross
Global Research, January 26, 2009
If the cable and phone companies that transmit Internet data are allowed to charge higher rates to some producers for faster service the result will be “a ten pin strike against political freedom,” a prominent legal authority warns.
That’s because the change will enable the wealthy to “quickly take over the high speed transmissions (for their trash commercial content) just as they completely monopolize radio and TV, and just as their incredibly greedy profit-seeking has had a very deleterious effect on print journalism,” writes Lawrence Velvel, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover.
Velvel’s plea for “internet neutrality” comes in his new book “An Enemy of The People,” subtitled “The Unending Battle Against Conventional Wisdom(Doukathsan).” Essentially, he writes, the proposed change is an “attempt by the wealthy to make the internet into yet another repository of their power…”
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