NET NEUTRALITY
Musings, 10:11 hrs. PDT/GMT-7, 14 August 2006, Monday, epoch studio, 20`C sunny and warm
Spent three hours last night tracking down the bill before the US Senate, bill 5252 sponsored by Senator Stevens (R) Alaska. It indeed would strike down "Net neutrality" in favor of allowing the tele communication and cable companies to impede, censor and limit access to the net.
This bill would address the concerns of the large media companies who have seen their ability to manufacture consent diminished by the proliferation of blogs and web sites that tell the other side of the story.
This is a back door way of limiting our freedom of speech by limiting who will hear or read our opinions. Freedom of Speech means nothing if no one else can listen unless the subject is approved or censored by the state or some transnational corporation.
We have already seen and attack on our ability to communicate in private when the telecommunication companies readily turn our phone records over to law enforcement and the National Security Agency without oversight of the courts. They have seen the way China does it and like what they see, and of course the trans national corporation sees another way to extort more money from an already very profitable system.
I will give you the URL of a pdf that details the particulars of the bill before the Senate. For those of you in Canada remember that the National Alliance of Business wants to "harmonize" the laws of the USA and Canada in the interest of trade. Should that happen that Senate law would become the law in Canada.
Ciao, JWL
Spent three hours last night tracking down the bill before the US Senate, bill 5252 sponsored by Senator Stevens (R) Alaska. It indeed would strike down "Net neutrality" in favor of allowing the tele communication and cable companies to impede, censor and limit access to the net.
This bill would address the concerns of the large media companies who have seen their ability to manufacture consent diminished by the proliferation of blogs and web sites that tell the other side of the story.
This is a back door way of limiting our freedom of speech by limiting who will hear or read our opinions. Freedom of Speech means nothing if no one else can listen unless the subject is approved or censored by the state or some transnational corporation.
We have already seen and attack on our ability to communicate in private when the telecommunication companies readily turn our phone records over to law enforcement and the National Security Agency without oversight of the courts. They have seen the way China does it and like what they see, and of course the trans national corporation sees another way to extort more money from an already very profitable system.
I will give you the URL of a pdf that details the particulars of the bill before the Senate. For those of you in Canada remember that the National Alliance of Business wants to "harmonize" the laws of the USA and Canada in the interest of trade. Should that happen that Senate law would become the law in Canada.
Ciao, JWL
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