The government wants to control the internet

[tornado]

Bit by bit, the people in the government want to reguilate the internet...and control what people say and think...
they want to find ways to squelch certain thought, hinder their opponents, and undoubtedly make $$ by taxing people one way or another...

http://broadbandcensus.com/2009/10/fcc-takes-first-step-to-formally-regulate-the-internet-through-proposed-neutrality-rules/comment-page-1/

"Republican Commissioners Robert McDowell and Meredith Attwell Baker
both expressed skepticism about the need for regulation."

You can take a guess who is really behind this...

John McCain wants to block the FCC from taking control over the internet, which McCain feels is like the free market place
and can regulate itself without much government involvement.
"Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, introduced a bill Thursday that
would prohibit the FCC from enacting rules that would regulate the Internet."

http://www.appscout.com/2009/10/mccain_bill_would_ban_fcc_from.php

oddly, despite almost every other regulatory or censorship effort by the government generally being opposed vigorously by the media and press...
isn't it interesting that the standard press and media is completely ignoring this and almost seem complicit in it!
Could the press actually want the govenment to start regulating the ineternet and what's said there?
you decide.....


In case you really don't see what's happening....this is really just one more step to silence thought and speech the government doesn't like...
same with attacking Fox, same with the internet rules proposed a few weeks ago, and same with this...
this is an ongoing effort to
"Muzzle Free Speech"

http://www.authorlink.com/news/item/2220/FTC-Blogger-Rules-Muzzle-Free-Speech

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/10/21/fiorina-government-has-to-regulate-wild-west-internet/

[yem549]

What does this have to do with basketball?

I thought this board was for basketball fan talk, the past few months there's been more political talk than basketball. I know I don't post much, in fact I only check in because this is the best place I've found to keep up with my braves. If I was looking for political commentary, there are many other places I'd look before I'd look here, and before anyone says stay away from the political threads, you never know what thread is going to be hijacked. So I'm out, maybe for good, maybe not, we'll see.

[Jack Bauer]

This is the internet. So it's relevant. And it's just another method of thought control that's trying to be forced upon us.

[jeffsu]

Sure, this thread could probably benefit from "OT" being posted before it... but man, relax! All you have to do is ignore it. There are plenty of threads, basketball and non-basketball related that annoy me. Or don't interest me.

I choose to ignore them and let those who respond enjoy their conversation.

[MacabreMob]

yem - What I think Tornado is suggesting is the connection between the government engaging in regulating free speech on the internet and how the media and press are always against infringing on Americans right to free speech in the 1st Amendment... but in this case, the media isn't against the infringement of Americans right to free speech because maybe the media can and would benefit from this.

So I can see how it is related to sports, basketball and Bradley basketball in the sense that this is a message board with the sharing of people's personal views and expression of their free speech.

[SFP]

As a Libertarian I have been shell shocked at this attempt as well as other attempts the past 8 plus years of Washington trying to curtail our freedoms. The blame goes to both parties and special interest that have the most to gain!

[amckillip]

While I don't agree with regulated internet, Net neutrality is VERY important (a form of regulation). Without net neutrality, new sites, such as this one, will never develop. ISP's will give bandwith to sites like ESPN, CNN and such and people will not pay more to discover new sites. No net neutrality = end of internet innovation.