Comments on: Naturally, On Net Neutrality – Government Fails: Especially Joe Biden http://whatthecrap.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/naturally-on-net-neutrality-government-fails-especially-joe-biden/ Uh...had a slight weapons malfunction. But, uh, everything's perfectly alright now... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:39:58 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Major Damage http://whatthecrap.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/naturally-on-net-neutrality-government-fails-especially-joe-biden/#comment-3900 Major Damage Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:45:03 +0000 http://whatthecrap.wordpress.com/?p=1845#comment-3900 When I first heard about Biden and Net Neutrality, I wondered what Net Neutrality was. Now that I know what it is I'm all for it and Obama pick him as his VP was a big mistake. Granted McCain isn't any better, looks like the US really has scraped the bottom of the barrel for candidates this time around. When I first heard about Biden and Net Neutrality, I wondered what Net Neutrality was. Now that I know what it is I’m all for it and Obama pick him as his VP was a big mistake. Granted McCain isn’t any better, looks like the US really has scraped the bottom of the barrel for candidates this time around.

]]> By: Sean Sullivan http://whatthecrap.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/naturally-on-net-neutrality-government-fails-especially-joe-biden/#comment-3873 Sean Sullivan Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:28:18 +0000 http://whatthecrap.wordpress.com/?p=1845#comment-3873 The issue with tiering the Internet is a huge concern of mine personally. As an entrepreneur who plans to make most of the money in my lifetime from Internet related ventures, I do not want to have to get in bed with Comcast or whoever the *service providers* might be to make sure that my product gets delivered with equal emphasis as CNN, ESPN, or whoever is already part of the party. I also greatly am troubled by the call to end encryption by the FBI (as Gizmodo.com reported). Encryption is very important to a lot of the technologies that are developed and I personally don't want anybody to sniff my emails/credit cards. What do you think of city governments becoming more responsible for acting as ISP's? It seems that a city could ding each of its citizens with a little bit of a tax hike and cut out the Comcast & Time Warners altogether... Or is your point that the ISP's are not the enemy but rather the government and its inability to define the rules? The issue with tiering the Internet is a huge concern of mine personally. As an entrepreneur who plans to make most of the money in my lifetime from Internet related ventures, I do not want to have to get in bed with Comcast or whoever the *service providers* might be to make sure that my product gets delivered with equal emphasis as CNN, ESPN, or whoever is already part of the party.

I also greatly am troubled by the call to end encryption by the FBI (as Gizmodo.com reported). Encryption is very important to a lot of the technologies that are developed and I personally don’t want anybody to sniff my emails/credit cards.

What do you think of city governments becoming more responsible for acting as ISP’s? It seems that a city could ding each of its citizens with a little bit of a tax hike and cut out the Comcast & Time Warners altogether… Or is your point that the ISP’s are not the enemy but rather the government and its inability to define the rules?

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