If you have heard or read by now, the FCC has already made moves to begin a rulemaking process to formalize net neutrality( link here). For those that don’t know, “net neutrality” relates to guaranteeing customers the freedom to use their internet connections to access any content, use any applications, and attach any devices, that they chose. Also, it can be used to discuss the limits on these freedoms, as sanctioned by their internet service provider, or the government. This is actually a positive thing for the consummer, because it protects us from the ISP’s providing internet services to us in the same manner that cable companies have decided to sell us cable station packages.
Once again, however, your good friend from the straight-jacket express, I mean, straight talk express, has other ideas in mind for the consummer digital dollar. John McCain has introduced the Internet Freedom Act, which, according to a reporter from Reuters(link here), “would keep the FCC from enacting rules prohibiting broadband providers from selectively blocking or slowing Internet content and applications.”
Some questions we might want to consider as this power struggle ensues:
- Since the internet was established as a military project, thus a governmental one, therefore one paid by taxpayers, shouldn’t it be the taxpayers who control it?
- Can we possibly see the same outcome from political interference, in regard to the internet, as we did when the government interfered and completely usurped the radio waves from the public?
- Does John McCain still think the American people are stupid enough to believe that corporate greed trumps governmental regulations? After the infamous Bailout? As I might say on the block, Senator please…
Stay posted guys, this could turn out ugly…
