Murdoch-owned Boston Herald: Let Net Neutrality Die

[blm]

Serious issue under the radar. The fascists are bombing us on every issue knowing one or more of those bombs will hit the target.


http://bostonherald.com/news/opinion/editorials/view.bg?articleid=1319662

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Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry is mounting a last-ditch fight to let the Federal Communications Commission impose “Net neutrality” rules on the Internet. It’s time to throw in the towel, senator.

Kerry, who is chairman of the communications subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee, wrote to the majority leader, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), and to the minority leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), asking them to block a House-passed provision in the stopgap spending measure moving through Congress that would forbid the spending of money on the FCC’s December rule.

The rule ostensibly forbids service providers from interfering with transmissions on their networks.

Democratic Sens. Maria Cantwell of Washington, Al Franken of Minnesota and Ron Wyden of Oregon also signed the letter. Only Cantwell is a member of the subcommittee; neither of the other signers is on the subcommittee or the parent committee.
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[AndyTiedye]

1. The Repiggies Want to Rule the Net The Way they Rule the Airwaves

They would decide what sites we can see, just like they do on cable TV.

No more Democratic Underground, No more Al Jazeera (for us anyway), you get the idea…

[blm]

2. yep....NO news outlet for the truth will ever be allowed to gain traction with fascists in control

of the internet as well as broadcast media.

[Sirveri]

4. That could be a good thing. Nothing to get people off their butts like shutting the net off.

Look what happened in Egypt when they shut the internet down. They rose up and started to actually DO something!

[AndyTiedye]

8. They Wouldn't Shut it Down

but they can slow it down enough so that video becomes unwatchable,
unless it comes from one of your cable company's "marketing partners".

Comcast didn't buy NBC to watch it continue to hemorrhage viewers.
They must have a plan.

[applegrove]

3. very scary.

[The Doctor.]

5. Not terribly. 'Control' is the illusion.

They will have a far more difficult time making such a thing real than they think.

[applegrove]

9. There is a market out there for good progressive news. Right now the internet is fullfilling that

need.

[melman]

6. Murdoch doesn't own The Herald

Hasn't since '94. It is still one of the worst right-wing rags in the country, but not owned by Murdoch.

[Raksha]

7. Has the Boston Herald ever heard of Anonymous?

This could get interesting. :evilgrin: