Kaynara Ray

Prokofy, there is an old saying: You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. Valiant attempt though, I commend you

Very true. Unfortunately. Consumer discipline. Like.. not buying their service? There is no easy solution here. But you sure as hell don't take the irresponsible route and just offer power to the central government without hard restrictions, such as a Constitutional Amendment that clearly defines what they can and cannot do. Let me be clear: I don't want the federal government anywhere near the internet. I just offered the only truly LEGAL way for them to regulate it. An Amendment. Any I don't think anyone thinks companies lobbying and buying how regulations are written is good. Good grief. First of all.. who cares what a foreign government is doing. Thats their problem. And second.. how the hell would you know what a free market looks like? We haven't had one in longer than anyone has been alive truth be told, likely longer outside the U.S. Clearly you have bought into the whole 'It has to be done by a central authority or it can't be done at all!' mentality. There's no helping you. Cute analogies though, points for creativity if nothing else. Scoff and call it foolish all you like. Some of us might want to see about thinking outside the box from time to time. You edit my post to suit you and you expect me to take you seriously? Yea... no. Next? ............. I'm sure more folks are gonna try to say how we have no choice but to give more power to the federal government to solve all out problems for us. Have at it. Its not like there aren't enough examples to show why thats a bad idea. But if you have to keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect a different result? I think we have a word for that, as I said before. Insanity. But sure, lets go with what those that think that way seem to want to do. Lets see what the internet looks like in the USA after a few years of changing political winds now that the foot is in the door. Lets see the results of how they saved us from the mean big companies. I mean.. we all know that someone thinking up a better tech or better way of doing something never happens right? Hardware can't be bought or sold after all. Big companies can never fail. And government invents everything! Have fun peoples, noone can say I didn't try.

Let me get this straight.. you want to vote for the Federal Government to keep trying to control the internet? Because that's what this 'Net Neutrality' crap is. You want the most irresponsible entity possible to keep putting its greedy fingers where it absolutely does not belong? Seriously? Their utterly stupid ideas change with the freaking political wind at the drop of a hat, and they have screwed up every program they run whenever they reach outside their jurisdiction, and even make disasters of the ones they are REQUIRED to run, and you want to keep giving them MORE power outside their scope? The FCC never had ANY business getting involved or claiming the internet is now a 'utility' for them to control. These big companies that you hate so much that are abusing the bandwidth.. that they provide and own the hardware for.. are also the ones that can weather the storm of any new regulations costs, and in fact are involved in the lobbying for how these rules are written! The little guys that might behave better if allowed into the market to compete CAN'T survive the regulation's cost of compliance. Net Neutrality is at best a really bad joke, and at worst a lie to get government foot in the door for control and regulation of internet content. To be suckered into actually supporting this is sad. This is insanity. How about we look toward something useful, like figuring out how to get competition back into the market and force these ISPs to compete for our business?