Your comment about Google, etc., is a crock.

"Curbing the evolution of the Net" ???? Nonsense.

First, the federal regulations aren't unprecedented. The internet was created by, through, and with, federal regulation.

What you're selling is not some sort of problem with the users of the internet pipes. To use your words, you're selling "corporate arrogance by the Internet's Big Guys" like AT&T, BellSouth, and the other connectivity providers. They're looking for a new racket so they can print money instead of compete for it.

I can't imagine any reason to be for their view except being paid. How much are you being paid?

I'm choking on irony. someone please call for help

Snakes on a Plane is a clever political metaphor for what happens when Republicans are planted in the Government by corporate terrorists intent on bringing it down.

I'm sick of these motherf%&*ing Republicans in the motherf%&*ing Government!

How cute! We've got some astroturf planted right here on lil' ol' mydd!. Time to get out the weed whacker.

Seriously, google pays -a lot- for the bandwidth that they use. I pay for the bandwidth that I use. That issue is a red herring.  

If you want to see what a network without neutrality looks like, take a gander at cellphones.  Every company has its own signals and nobody needs to play nice with anyone else.  If you are out of your coverage area you are either out of luck or you pay out the ying yang. There are plenty of neato whiz bang services possible over these networks, but almost none of them are available because nobody can access the network without permission from the big kids. And they won't let you play on their playground.

Sometimes, a little bit of regulation is good for business.

The American Consumer Institute's research further "raises questions about how consumer welfare is increased by imposing government price and service regulation on network infrastructure providers and not other web-centric companies with equal or superior market and financial power (i.e. Google & Amazon).

Let's all take a minute to think about who is really threatened by an unregulated marketplace.

Thank you for taking the time to read the linked press release above. - Hands Off The Internet

How much are you being paid?

They will fool no one here but the disinformation campaign will fool plenty of the general public. They want to get their greedy hands on the internet so they name their campaign the opposite - pure Orwell. I'm interested in a wide range of viewpoints, but the Telco's and their paid shills are engaged in a deception campaign, so I consider them trolls.

FTC Commissioner Deb said with a straight face,
"While I am sounding cautionary notes about new legislation, let me make clear that if broadband providers engage in anticompetitive conduct, we will not hesitate to act using our existing authority."

Deal after deal has been made in the Telco business to reestablish monopolies after the breakup of AT&T.  The Republicans have raked in contributions from the Telco's while doing zero enforcement. Now the Telco's see a new oportunity for monopoly control - the internet.

No one has to use Google, Amazon or even Microsoft.   But once a phone company gets monopoly control you are stuck with whatever they give you.

This diary is hard to follow. A few quotes and a link. I am not even sure what the diarist's point is.

But I will say this.
Take a big group of friends and watch Snakes on a Plane because it's the most fun I have had with a movie this summer. It won't be the same watching it with a small crowd at home or in the theater.

We'll back up Pravin on the SoaP front.

The reason for this diary shouldn't be TOO hard to discern, though. The FTC realizes that the situation with Net Neutrality is much less about "saving" the Internet from a doomsday scenario where reaching MyDD is impossible, and much more about Google asking for a government handout. We're trying to provoke a little debate, and it seems we've accomplished that.

It also seems that we've spooked the editors at this site just a little, because even though this post has attracted some significant comments, it's no longer in the recommended diaries section. Not on the front page at all! And here we thought this was an open forum.

Also, many of you have no sense of humor, which is too bad. Admiral Naismith is one of a few who are excepted.

Looks like all the comments from the anti-NN folks have been hidden.  I guess when it comes to advocating no content discrimination and all bytes being equal, that doesn't apply to MyDD.

An open debate about these very relevant comments by the FTC commissioner is really all that we at Hands Off the Internet wanted to see happen.  People need to hear both sides of the issue, not have one side of the debate hidden from them.

The guy thinks he's a comedian, sock puppets and all. It's kinda funny watching him slip and fall into his own stinkin pile.

The telco's are cheap bastards with their employees and freelancers. It shows.