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THEY'RE PROTECTING IT YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!!!!!!!!!
*sorry* #glennbeck
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He's angry, weepy, unhinged and rich. Throw in a Spruce Goose and curly fingernails and he's Howard Hughes. #glennbeck
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Yeah. And health insuarnce provider's services are not a public good either. Therefore, they have the right to deny any part of it to anyone they fucking feel like. Am I getting this right? #glennbeck
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"Private enterprise" my ass, you twit. Telecoms censoring and intentionally slowing down sites that don't pay their protection fees is not "private enterprise", it's extortion.
Oh and I love your assertion here : " An internet service provider's bandwidth is not a public good. "
Besides being false and stupid, since every other country on Earth DOES see broadband Internet access as a public good, a utility, stupid cheap thinking like yours is why the US is slowly slipping into a third-rate country when it comes to smarts and competitiveness in the global marketplace. Why do you hate American ingenuity and competitiveness? Why should the Koreans have superior, better, faster, cheaper Internet than us? Why do you think US telecoms ought to be able to hinder and slow websites they don't like, who won't or can't pay their blackmail fees?
Pretty idiotic POV, "Princess". Go fucking read up on it, won't you dear? #glennbeck
10/21/09
I just get uncomfortable any time that the government tries to tell people how it should run their business. ISPs are not the Internet... they are merely access points to the internet. There are also TONS of them... It isn't like a single company has a monopoly over which sites you can and can't access. #glennbeck
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It is the government who is the people, not the businesses! Christ.
10/21/09
Also, is there some reason why anyone on this site who doesn't think government should do everything is a target of profanity? What a great debating tactic. #glennbeck
10/21/09
Oh, thank goodness! Seeing that these utilities (with billions) are just free market businesses that compete with each other, I can pick and choose whose lines I am going to use, right? Yeah. Right.
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It's supposed to be. Whereas the businesses are not. It's through actions like this that the government acts on behalf of the people, like it should. Of course that no government is perfect, but this one is at least trying to be what the government is supposed to be. #glennbeck
10/21/09
Yes, there is. Here is why:
If we were having this discussion in Sweden, Canada, or Japan, I could see some people railing up against the government "doing everything". But dude, this country has less government involvement in things than any other (industrialized) country in the world. Pulling for even less than that is pulling in the direction of... what? The nineteen century capitalism that ended in Great Depression? The uncharted territories of right-wing extremist economy? Because dude, if you need even less government than there is anywhere else in the world, you are an extremist. And having in mind in what kind of shit we are all in right now, I really don't think we can afford any extremist experiments. So, yeah, if you are going to describe yourself as someone who is simply against "government running everything", all I can say to you is: shut the fuck up. Fair?
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Glenn Beck is a filthy demented liar who I am truly sick of having to consider daily. But there he is, lying his lies about Net Neutrality, and absolutely perverting it's meaning to the exact opposite, and leaving its corpse in an obscene position to find like a serial killer.
Glenn Beck can go to hell. Net Neutrality Now, we the US taxpayers paid for those pipes, those cables, and received nothing in return. The entire rest of the world sees broadband as a massive boon to creativity and productivity, and here in the US Glenn Beck is arguing that we should allow these telecoms to slow it, impede it, make top dollar extorting money from independent websites with threats.
Net Neutrality Now. That is all. Anyone listening to Beck is not worth arguing with. #glennbeck
10/21/09
The Government is full of fuck ups. Fucked up people who constantly lie and fuck things up. This applies to both parties. The Government is not your friend. They don't give a shit about you.
If the Government was an advanced artificial intelligence I would have more faith in it even if it had the possibility to go all Skynet on our asses.
Anyone who wants to give those pricks any more responsibility or power whether it is health care, net neutrality, or anything else is a fucking idiot who cannot think for themselves.
You know what's the best part? Even as fucked up as things are now America will be fine as long as these retards keep their fucking hands out of the cookie jars. We will rebound, we will persevere because we are the best country and have the best citizens in the fucking world. #glennbeck
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I never said that, did I? What I did say was that the street and the pipes and the circuits and the electricity were indeed paid for massively by the NYC taxpayer when they were laid down. The fact that "private" corporations took massive advantage of that is scarcely germane to your argument. The pipes, the streets, the circuits- these belong to NYC, not Time Warner or whomever, who were granted outrageous monopolies on no basis for mere cable TV alone in the 80's, not even metioning broadband Internet to come.
So what's your point, Quotidian? Please prove to me that NYC taxpayers didn't pay through the nose for conglomerates to profit off of. Please show me how it makes us a better society that conglomerates threaten to choke off Internet traffic for sites they deem objectionable.
Can't see your point here, private companies may have laid the pipe in NYC streets, but they do not own the civic , physical infrastructure of NYC. They have been the ones exploiting it for years, tax-free. And I'll repeat my claim: we in the US will become a third-rate country if broadband Internet acces is priced as a luxury item if telecoms have their way. When every other country in the world treats it properly as an essential utility, that benefits us all. The US is so pinched in its thinking here, trying to squeeze more pennies at maximim price. And now they want to stall and thwart sites that don't pay their blackmail?
Well God help us all. Corporations don't actually own NYC streets and infrastructure yet. But what embarrasssing retardation and dick capitalism is working against NYC being a proper world-class city these days. Ferociously dick cheapness, that the Internet is not widely accessible, on, and always. Bass ackwards. #glennbeck
10/22/09
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By your logic, we should give up on society, because no one is qualified to be running things. Your blind faith that as long as we ignore problems they will go away is disconcerting. What happened to the good ol' Steve Rogers/ John Wayne/ Teddy Roosevelt America that stared down its problems and beat them into submission? #glennbeck
10/22/09
Also, Princess Daisy is better, and you were better when you were called Princess Toadstool. Argue that!
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Private business seldom hold that kind of power. #glennbeck
10/21/09
PS: I hate that fucking blackboard that Beck uses. Like he's some esteemed professor trying to teach a bunch of ignoramuses something so complicated it couldn't be illustrated in one of the simple, digestible graphics Fox graphics department typically shits out. I imagine his empty-headed viewers sitting in front of their TVs with a notepad and printed-out wingnut lecture slides taking notes.
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No wonder they were such hyper weepy bitches about the (nonexistent threat of the) Fairness Doctrine being re-instated. It's sounding pretty good lately though. #glennbeck
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08/31/09
What worries me the the idea that at some point it will turn into another thousand pages of legislation that few have read and nobody fully understands. That followed by a new government agency and a building full of people trying to implement 500 or so other people's idea of "fairness".
Don't forget all the "bad guys" in this play are themselves government sponsored monopolies. These companies wouldn't exist in their current form were it not for favoritism and back-room deals at all levels of government.
The key to at least approaching the goal of network neutrality is to having fewer mega-companies involved at all. Of course it's going to be almost impossible to move in that direction given today's wheel spinning feel-good politics.
08/31/09