Net Neutrality
Posted in Podcasts on November 21st, 2006
Our producer Gregg joins us to talk about this topic of interest to everyone who loves the freedom and equality of the internet. Unless we get some help from regulations, we will once again be slaves to the richest telecommunications companies and others who stand to benefit from selling us varied access to what we now get for free. Call your politicians and demand a vote for net neutrality!
Music: Let’s Steal Everything by World/Inferno Friendship Society from the album Red-Eyed Soul
MD says:
Net Neutrality: Sure I think we should leave things as they are but that is not the reality. In my humble opinion “Bandwidth “is too big a pie to leave sitting in the window to cool, and let’s not forget the moratorium on sales tax for the internet. Wisconsin of course has the taxation neatly taken care of by saying if you did not pay state tax for an item elsewhere then you owe Wisconsin tax on that item. I just could not believe it when I first saw that line on my State tax form. No big deal anyway if it is just a pair of shoes, however it is a huge deal if the purchase is a car, boat or big ticket item.
Anyway I am getting head of myself. In my opinion computers and information highways were built by computer scientists for computer scientists. After awhile the personal computer was born. Before you know the homesteaders moved in, started putting up fences. The big corporations saw that and said fences are good but toll-bridges are even better as they wrung their greedy sweaty little hands.
Some web pages to be considered:
http://politicscentral.com/2006/08/20/taxi_how_net_neutrality_imitat.php
http://www.redstate.com/story/2006/6/22/92131/5927
http://business2.blogs.com/business2blog/2006/04/fccs_kopps_says.html
http://www.investors.com/breakingnews.asp?journalid=34099322&brk=1
November 21st, 2006 at 9:23 pm
Bernadette in Australia says:
I still don’t know what I think about this whole issue. While on the one hand I want the net to stay as accessible as possible I’m less convinced than you seem to be that any kind of Government regulation will actually have the desired effect. I have no idea how you would regulate it and if you could work that out I don’t particularly want to pay more taxes to regulate the internet (successful regulation requires compliance policing of some kind and that sort of thing always costs more money).
And if there weren’t people looking for ways to make a profit the world would be a less innovative place so I’m not convinced by the “corporations are evil” argument. I do believe that corporations get away with things that the little folk wouldn’t get away with…but usually only because more evil governments have allowed it.
So, I’m still sitting on the fence on this one. But thanks for an interesting show as always ladies (and Gregg)
November 24th, 2006 at 7:25 pm
dwight says:
Net neutrality is bad for consumers this is what I have seen on TV. But that would mean bad is good and good is bad. I might be changing my mind.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1711184/posts
I don’t believe in big goverment. I do believe in equal access for the poor.
Officially confused,
Dwight
December 10th, 2006 at 9:13 pm