Comments on: Justice Department Nixes Net Neutrality

Government Says ISPs Should Be Allowed To Charge A Fee For Priority Web Traffic

[afmca]

Another Bush gift to big business before he finally leaves office. Just wait until you see the regulations he puts in place over the next year - clean air, clear water, industrial safety, consumer safety; corporate accountability ... all will be regulated out of existence on the premise that good corporations and capitalism will control the market.

[gunownerdan]

Say goodbye to the internet as you know it.
America will be like a communist dictatorship in no time.

[ke6960]

this is one of the stupidest things ive read lately.... first of all as others have said why does the justice department care about corporate/consumer topics in the first place and how do they think that "he Justice Department said imposing a Net neutrality regulation could hamper development of the Internet and prevent service providers from upgrading or expanding their networks." or that "Such a result could diminish or delay network expansion and improvement, it added.

The agency said providing different levels of service is common, efficient and could satisfy consumers"


are they on drugs???

seriously, the only thing i can think to compare it to is the cable companies with there channel lineups and no one thinks thats a good idea.....

what is wrong with people these days (especially people in large corporations and the government) do they really think people are stupid and they can just lie to everyone with a straight face and we''ll believe it???

[drinuk]

They hate this medium, governments all over the world do not want us the ordinary people talking to each other. Hands Off the Internet or you may just pay the price of revolution.

[andor3]

This has nothing to do with Justice and everything to do with corporate lobbying to buy government influence, to increase profits.

I don''t think they are going to get away with this scam; they must be pretty out of touch to even attempt it.

[brianbwb-2009]

Time to boycott ISPs. Pick one, boycott it into the dust, and then move on to the next one, until they understand the will of the consumer.

[jw218389]

Say Goodbye to the last free speech in the World.

FREEDOM IS DEAD - BOTH IN THE REAL WORLD AND THE VIRTUAL WORLD.

We are a bunch of CHUMPS tp let the media take over the internet...

[incog-nito]

Next on the justice department''s agenda: How to charge for the air you breathe.

[p-syrus]

Justice Department Nixes Net Neutrality

Not surprising coming from the Bush Administration. They have exerted every effort to empower corporate rights at the expense of the rights and liberties of private citizens.

There exists a fundamentally false and extremely ugly view current in this modern american culture that ignoring the citizenry is politically safe and that the body politic is best served by promoting the interests of private corporations rather than weighing the conflicting interests of the citizens.

What most "conservatives" fail to grasp is that this argument was well-understood by the founding fathers and they repudiated it as being indicative of a fundamentally sick society in which the rights of individuals could not survive.

[oleander8]

"As an example, it cited that the U.S. Postal Service..."

Not a good choice to hold up as an example.

Government - stay out of Internet business - it''s the only global equalizer left to the people of the world.