And the Bushies took a more back door approach, allowing telecoms to control content on "their" networks.

 

At least net neutrality is a real policy.  Fox news is more like Radio Free Hot Air.

Without fox news we would never have known about Van Jones, the Acorn scandal, The plan to ram a BS health bill  no one even read down our throats, would have never even known about the tea parties, the Mao fan club in our government, the child molester that got off with a year time served for raping 2 little girls over 4 years, Charles Rangles tax cheating, Pelosi's lack of memory, the great good water boarding has done to keep us safe ect...

O'Reilly , Gretta, Wallace, Hume and Cavuto are the most objective people in all of news mdia, their only "agenda" is the truth, period.

I would not put O'Reilly in that group. I agree that the fox NEWS people like Wallace, and Hume are some of the best in the game, but O'Reilly is an opinion guy like Beck and Hannity. I know he is not as far to the right as those guys, or at least he tries not to be lately, but he has opinion show and is a conservative.

 

Fox those not hide who they are. Beck and Hannity say they are conservative opinion guys, but Fox also has news guys like Wallace who are top class guys. That is more than I can say for CNN and especially MSNBC, or as I like to call them Team Obama. Those Two networks are almost 24/7 Obama cheerleaders.

 

One more thing: I can't stand Gretta for some reason, she needs to go!

The telecoms aren't in a position to force a Chavez like censorship on the media. If youdon't like what they are doing, you can always start up your own and implement your own policy.

Government control isn't "neutrality". And that's where the Obama-ists want to go.

The telecoms aren't in a position to force a Chavez like censorship on the media. If you don't like what they are doing, you can always start up your own and implement your own policy.

Government control isn't "neutrality". And that's where the Obama-ists want to go.

Going to war with the most powerful 24/7 news organization in America shows how inexperienced, and plane stupid this administration is.

Stupidy is a constant theme in and around the White House now.

My understanding is that stupidity is an inevitable outgrowth of pride. And Obama has no lack of pride.

 

 

Actually each telecom does have the complete ability to control what goes out over its pipelines, but you don't have one clue as to how that stuff works so keep swallowing the kool aid and throwing bibles at gay people.

 

Gov't control of how corporations manage the internet is neutrality, even more so when you consider that DARPA provided the seed funding for the internet.  If HP, ATT, IBM or Xerox had bought into the idea, things would be much much worse.

 

 

Dumb, stupid conservatives.

 

 Did anyone ever claim that they didn't have such an ability? Nice straw man there with the added in obligatory tarring of all conservatives as religious extremists. Got a real argument hidden in there by chance? I'm betting no. When you have a corporation which can control what goes out over all competing pipes, you might have a vestige of a point. In the meantime, blocking information means you rile customers, and the word will get out. In what remains of our free market economy, you can always find another vendor. I don't need to be 'protected' from a company when I can simply stop doing business with them.

 

 Government control can be neutrality if, and only if, the government decides it wants to be neutral. The minute it decides it no longer wants to be, who the hell is going to stop them? At that point they control the lot of it, and good luck looking for an alternate source.

 

China manages their networks and their news institutions. That's not quite neutral how they do it now is it?

 

 

 Pot. Kettle. Black.

 

Net neutrality is a power grab in search of a problem. It's also a blatant case of some companies trying to use the government against other companies to protect their bottom line (heard of Google right?). 

 

I won't bother asking you to take off your patented anti-corporate tinfoil hat because I know you love it so.

FDR did deficit financing.  Was that voodoo economics too, Zoo?  (Wow, that rhymed.  I'm a poet and I don't know it.)

 

Getting back on topic...Obama's "war" on Fox News is the biggest joke of all.  What, they say something about him and he can't handle it?  Poor widdle guy.  Welcome to the big league, Barack, where the entire world doesn't beat a path to your door to kiss your ass.  Presidents a hell of a lot more competent than you would've killed to have your coverage.

 

This is just incredible.  MSNBC screamed some of the worst slander against Bush possible, CBS outright lied, the NYT made it a personal vendetta to "get Bush," and Air America threatened to actually kill him.  Did Evil Bushitler call any of those organizations "not really news organizations" or shut them out of the White House, or encourage other news networks not to use their stories?  No, he pretty much just ignored them. 

 

Fox dares to question Obama, and Obama acts like they threatened to rape his dog or something.  For someone who likes to be compared to Kennedy and FDR, Obama needs to, well, grow up.  Kennedy and FDR would've just shrugged, made a joke, and got to the serious task of actually governing the country.

 

Well, FDR might have called Fox Nazis, but I doubt it.

I threw a D&D book at a gay person once.  What else could I do? He screwed my character out of 221 gp, the dirty bastard.  I think it was the Unearthed Arcana book.

 

Does that count? I'd hate to lose my status as an Evil Conservative.