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Net Neutrality

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
You know that when the Gun Owners of America organisation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Parents Television Council and the National Coalition against censorship agree with each other, they must be on to something.

These groups and hundreds of others have added their voice to fight against the corporate takeover of the net. American telecommunications companies are threatening the internet as we know it and everyone from Tim Berners Lee and Eric Schmidt (Google's CEO) are telling people to do something about it.

Corporate giants in America are have won a key vote that is the first step to allowing them to charge a premium for internet speed, creating a two tier internet. They want to make sure that we use their services, keeping a monopoly and a stranglehold on the internet, forcing out all the creativity and individuality that we take for granted.

I really hope somebody stops these greedy bastards and keeps the internet from becoming a channelled, monotonous corporate-controlled medium.

http://www.savetheinternet.com/

Google CEO

Comments

  • Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    Fuckers! We really CANNOT let this happen!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I say all Americans should vote for the the National Libertarian Party in America! Kurt Russel is a member, it is the only serious 3rd party in America.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    subject13 wrote:
    I say all Americans should vote for the the National Libertarian Party in America! Kurt Russel is a member, it is the only serious 3rd party in America.
    yeah, because ignoring business is the best way to run a country....
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    forcing out all the creativity and individuality that we take for granted.

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    they'll not get rid of me that easy!
  • Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    they'll not get rid of me that easy!
    :D

    Fight the Power!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Teh_Gerbil wrote:
    Fuckers! We really CANNOT let this happen!

    Somebody will hopefully do something about it, for now the signs look ominous.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Somebody .
    whobody?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    subject13 wrote:
    I say all Americans should vote for the the National Libertarian Party in America! Kurt Russel is a member, it is the only serious 3rd party in America.

    The Libertarian Party have a lot of good stuff in their platform, in some ways I perhaps wish we had an equivalent here. But in a two party system supporting the libertarian factions within the Republican party makes a lot more sense. (And in Britian supporting the libertarian wing of the Conservative Party).
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    the libertarian party are nutcases
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Blagsta wrote:
    the libertarian party are nutcases

    I'd say the same of whatever far-left outfit your supporting these days.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Got any opinions of your own yet dis? :D
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Im not even a left-winger, im a right-ringer...i just like the fact Kurt russel and John Carpenter are part of the Libertarian Party! Big Trouble in Little China was a rocking film!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The Libetarian Party are right wing.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    whobody?

    Somebody in the US, hopefully.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Blagsta wrote:
    The Libetarian Party are right wing.
    not according to their professed beliefs on their web page.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    not according to their professed beliefs on their web page.

    They're free market fundamentalists. That's right wing in my book.
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