Democratic win could herald net neutrality

...What can we do about it? Petitions, "angry letter writing", etc? More?

The Japanese animation companies have probably felt the biggest impact from online pirating.Their solution has developed into partnerships with streaming video sites, allowing for inexpensive downloads of full episodes, or low quality streams for free. I would like to see that happening more with American film companies and the RIAA.

Go Obama, keep the spigot open.

It makes sense because i truly believe that sites and media outlets can developed their own biased behavior. I think an important way to prevent it from happening is to use net neutrality.

You know glabadababoo, I was thinking the same thing when i first viewed this article. the fairness doctrine is completely different but a ragging discussion on right wing talk radio. All that does if innacted would help fair
play on our public air waves. The air waves are owned by us the public and big money and corporate greed have taken over our air waves to brain wash areas of the country that have no liberal talk radio, you know the liberal point of view is judged to be more of a populist view were the average person really has the power. Not the right wing view that we should believe what big brother is doing for us is in our best interest you know your daddy will take care of it, shut up and don't ask questions.

Has anyone ever heard of the fairness doctrine?
Even if i disagree with what people are saying, I will fight for them to have the right to say it. I hope you all feel the same.

I have so much too learn about this net neutrality thing it boggles my mind. I have used the internet on a casual basis before we purchased a new computer in june, I am finding it most entertaining and useful. I can honestly say that i have left the details of net neutrality
up too people who have a better grasp of it than I.

News like the link I shared (Capping/monitoring bandwidth )is just step one of the greedy ISP plan to destory the internet as we know it.

I dunno, from what I gather Josh Lanier is like the only one in the Senate that's really pushing for Net neutrality.
Some others may favor it but very few are going out of there way to keep the internet open for us.
Here is a tiny snip of an email I received from Josh Lanier :

"Thanks for your kind email. Like you, I also rely on the
Internet and will do everything I can to keep it open and free."

As someone above mentioned, Comcast paid disinterested people to fill seat at FCC Net Neutrality hearing.
While I'm a strong supporter of net neutrality I just don't think enough other people are passionate enough about this issue.

I hope Obama keeps his promise.

I find this interesting because anything and everything that keeps swine like Lieberman and their
hob noses out of encroachment into the Internet is a
Victory for World Democracy. Isn't it obvious that the Internet is a World Class Town Meeting Hall for ALL the people's minds to sample each other's points of view, and to learn from ? Look at what Comcast did in Boston at the beginning of Summer 2008 and see the corporate criminality in hijacking bona fide reserved seats then tresspassing their flunkies into them as a hostile takeover strategem. They did everything but fly the scull and crossbones flag which Piracy has historicaly been infamous for. Current.com is such a sucessful innovation in promoting uncensored meaningful news stories that it now has a clone. As Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said: "Immitation is the most sincere form of flattery"
When you Historicaly view how the electronic revolution of radio and TV surpassed Newspapers as news media. And how the Internet has superceded TV news as true mainstream news media...Then you don't have to wonder why TV news is fading in popularity as an uncensored news media source. On my Dell home page I saw an article featured in Fox news on how McCain aides were criticizing Palin aides and their retort. What God aweful worthless bullshit. It looked more like Communist propaganda than bona fide need to know hard news. And tragicly, the result of so much suppressive censorship that filler is being used to substitute for news. Reading that was like trying to eat a burger made out of cereal.You can see the result of Rupert Murdoch's plutocratic influence on their content. No Tass in their Pravda.
Big Money views people as not the People but rather a commodity that can be bought and sold like any other commodity. They don't believe in Democracy. They only believe in the kind of social control that Slavery brings. Because well informed people can't be so easily tricked and manipulated into choosing the corporate candidate. As Musolini said: "the perfection of the corporate State IS
Fascism" If the corporations had their way the govt would be giving them blow jobs to legalize charging us $100 a month for broadband that's as slow as dial up.
It's been certified as true that USA Internet is slower than other countries and that much of the Internet traffic is bypassing the USA altogether thanks to Hitler Bush and his heinous & infamous Patriot Act. We only defeated Hitler Bush's proteges by 4% of the popular vote as of the count recorded on Nov.4th. THAT'S how many Not-sys there are who don't have the sense to look past their noses and see the big picture anymore.And with those fools mostly voting in the RepugnantCons since Reagan they
have bled our economy nearly to death with wars and the debt needed to cover their Piracy. Without protecting Net Neutrality we won't have a free country anymore with that number of fools around. That's how important Net Neutrality realy is. For example: In the Winter of 2004, a news story came out of Canada via an Internet source that fortold of Bush/Cheny's strategy of exploiting terrorism to invade Afghanistan,Iraq and Iran for the purpose of building both an Oil pipeline and a natural gas pipeline to replace the crumbling Alaskan oil pipeline. And isn't it obvious that McCain/Palin were nominated by BIG OIL's RepugnantCon party to maintain their objective ? With Hitler Bush then in power that news story was one of the top 10 CENSORED news stories of 2004, so that Bush could conceal his real motives
for his March 2003 Iraqi Invasion, and go on to steal yet another election. The War mind controlled so many voters that they were tricked into voting Bush another 4 years to put his wrecking ball & chain to our country.And now our country is in shambles for it. Yet how many people do you know who wouldn't look befuddled like someone having a senior moment upon being informed of that ? They don't call it the boob tube for nothing.

Wait, what? I was looking forward to paying $50 a month for broadband at the speed of dial-up. I want a recount!

I totally disagree with going after wireless providers...It's bad enough that they want to seize computers involved in file sharing. I hope that this does not pass... Not that I want to be able to pirate movies and music, it's just not the governments place to regulate it.
If you get caught, you get caught and you go to jail. Should be that simple.