Franken goes ballistic on Verizon, Google, Comcast, and NBCUThe problem I have with this arcticle's speaker's comments is..... the SPIN SPIN SPIN.
"all coporations care about is the bottom line" "a dodge to avoid providing common carrier protections to consumers". The spin is.... Pretending NetNeutrality is for protection consumers, when in reality NetNeutrality rules are focues to protect content providers. Content providers are generally "corporations". Thus the two comments contradict themselves. I'm all about protectng consumers, but when is the public going to open their eyes and see who is really getting protected under the current NetNeutrality direction? It aint consumers. Another great line from Copps (I like Copps): "I suppose you can't blame companies for seeking to protect their own interests," the Commissioner concluded. "But you can blame policy makers if we let them get away with it." BUT... He leaves out the reality of, what authority does the government have to "take over" someone else's business and property that they paid for with their own money? How would you like it, if you owned a Giant food, and you invested money and time to make the shopping market successful, and then after all teh hard work was done and money invested, The givernment came in and said, "We are going to over rule your managers and owners, and we are going to set the prices for consumers, and lower it to jsut a tad over cost, its our store now." American people are going to be afraid to start businesses, if the presidence keeps getting set that the government is going to take over them and regulate them, to the point where the financial reward (ROI) potentially could be at risk. Why should broadband be any different than any other business? The fact is... Regulation and treating Businesses like Utilities KILLS small business and entrepreneurs. BUT FRANKEN DID GET SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT.... FINALLY SOMEONE STEPPING UP AGAINST THE MERGER OF CONTENT AND ACCESS (Anti-trust). Thumbs up for his comments against the Comcast NBC merger, and the necessity to prevent similar future type mergers.. Preventing such type mergers would do more for creating helpful NetNeutrality that benefited consumers, than any actual NetNeutrality law could benefit consumers. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: St. Louis Broadband To: 'WISPA General List' Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 5:42 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Franken goes ballistic on Verizon, Google, Comcast,and NBCU He was great last night in the in the live web stream from theuptake! Did a lot of tweeting. ~V~ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeff Broadwick - List Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 4:13 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Franken goes ballistic on Verizon, Google, Comcast, and NBCU I miss the days when he was funny on SNL... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cliff LeBoeuf Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 3:14 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Franken goes ballistic on Verizon, Google, Comcast, and NBCU http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/08/sen-franken-and-fcc-blast-verizongoogle-nn-proposal.ars No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3083 - Release Date: 08/20/10 02:35:00 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3076 - Release Date: 08/20/10 01:35:00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
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