Obama, internet nanny

[bu villain]

Wow, I know that was an editorial but that was incredibly biased and misleading. The government isn't trying to regulate the internet, they are trying to stop the ISPs from regulating it (e.g. throttling torrent traffic). Personally I don't want any company effectively telling me what information I can access. I'm afraid many of you are being mislead by this opinion piece.

[Total_Blender]

[quote=bu villian
I'm afraid many of you are being mislead by this opinion piece.[/quote]

I think thats what most who have posted in this thread are not getting, is that that article is an opinion piece. The author doesn't make it clear exactly what's being proposed or who in the administration is proposing it. Some people on this site love to hop on the "lets hate on Obama bandwagon," and fail to actually read the fine print on the issues at hand.

From what I have been reading the Obama administration is actually for net neutrality, which means that ISP's cannot control what content their customers post or access. Many republicans/conservatives/teabaggers, particularly Mayor McCheese, believe that ISP's should be able to censor or regulate the content that you receive (ie only letting you access Fox News or Free Republic and not letting you access the AP or HuffPost). They also believe that ISP's should be able to tier bandwidth, so they can restrict your speed for accessing certain types of content.

The whole imbroglio in the "opinion piece" in the original post is over Comcast restricting bandwidth to subscribers who were using peer-to-peer filesharing or Torrent applications. The FCC, acting independently from Obama as they are a separate agency, sued Comcast for restricting bandwidth to those customers. So the FCC and the Obama administration are actually fighting for your rights to unrestricted bandwidth on peer-to-peer sites (which you all are presumably using to illegally download). :boobies:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/pos...tell_pres.html

http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/06/tech...y_fcc_comcast/