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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | reply to petecellar
Re: free market? First off, why would Verzion want to do anything that COMcast isn't doing themselves which is looking after the sustainability of their company?
Second, I don't hate comcast, I could care less about comcast, and I somewhat support network neutrality to a point. (Side note: with NN comes other things that you guys don't think about, such as metered billing... NN isn't going to simply force an ISP to provide the internet AS-IS and not allow them to change the focus on how they sell it, so remember that one)
I'm not disappointed in the ruling AT - ALL but not for the reason that some extremists here would think.. I'm not disappointed in it becuase the courts followed the law.. hmmm.. GREAT concept if you ask me! I'm not willing to give up the law over a personal desire. There is a way to go about change if you want it and being disappointed in this is misplaced. The law is what it is.. don't like it, change the law THEN fight for the change - that's how our country and legal system works.
If we continually forgive those who step on the law in trade for personal desires, it's setting up a VERY VERY VERY bad landscape for OTHER issues that come before us. Say a good amount of people WANTED slavery again in this country but the law didn't allow for it (and say that the constitution hadn't been amended for this example of my explanation) and say some part of the government passed it and a court overlooked basic laws of our country, would that be a good day for the people that wanted it? or a bad day for our country in general? It would be a VERY bad day becuase it would show the people a lack of faith in our own system of laws.
EVEN IF you wanted this ruling to stick and are disappointed that it didn't, you should STILL celebrate that we have a court that is upholding the laws that we have... now if you want that to change, then go change the laws and continue fighting for what you want. But, I, for one, am happy that the courts ruled based on law and not emotion in this case. Personally, I believe the ISPs DO need to back off on their level of control and DO need to invest some of their profits back into their systems and continue to evolve.. but I also understand that with evolution is also going to come some other changes we may NOT really like, as I said before, some form of metered billing. | |
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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | I know you did.. but when I speak about companies, I tend to do it like an adult and without the need to call businesses by funny names. (It shows a sign of complete and total immaturity in a conversation among adults) It also shows that things like this don't really rule my life like some people do. Yes, I'm passionate about my debate, but in the end, I don't lose sleep over what some communication company is or isn't doing that makes me happy.. it's life. In the end, there is MUCH more important things to get up in arms about in this country, like the weak dollar, rising fuel prices, retirement options, and the BS health care bill shoved on us that we didn't need. How I buy, or chose not to buy, HBO or the internet is the least of my angst and I don't need or desire to come off like a 5 year old for it by calling companies by cutsie little names..
I also don't need to use terms like FUD, shill, astro-turfer, etc. | |
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