Friday, February 19, 2010

On Net-Neutrality

As some of you may have seen on Digg, John McCain has introduced the Internet "Freedom" Act 209 in congress. Why did I put freedom in sarcastic quotations? Because censorship is generally the antithesis of freedom. John McCain wants to stop the FCC form being able to protect net neutrality. As pointed out by a Digg user, John McCain received over 800,000$ of donations from Verizon and Comcast, who are both anti-net neutrality. John McCain doesn't even know how to use E-mail, so this is clearly another instance of corporations abusing the United States governmental system.
I find it ironic that the people (the right) keep accusing people on the left when they keep trying to take away our freedoms. I'm against big government just as much as the republican USED to be, before it lost all of its values and turned into a bible-thumping cage of shit-flinging apes who moonlight as whores for the highest bidder. I'm not going to make a long, overblown note about how turrible the right is, or how shit the internet would be if it turned into TV where you had to buy access to certain sites in bundles because the corporations have control over it, because really, if you are in any way intelligent, you should know how fucking bad this is for EVERYONE who uses the internet with some frequency.
I am for internet neutrality and any respect I've ever had for that old man has been diminished severely. If you're with me, call or write to your senators or representatives and tell them your stance (however unlikely it is that you're actually going to do it).

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