Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign said Nov. 15 her long silence on network neutrality should not be interpreted as waning support for the idea of mandating that broadband providers treat all network use in a nondiscriminatory manner. Two weeks before announcing her presidential campaign in January, Clinton, along with Sen. Barack Obama, signed on as original co-sponsors of legislation that would make network neutrality the law of the land.
Since the campaign began, though, Clinton hasn't mentioned network neutrality, despite having issued a nine-point technology plan. In October, she announced an Internet strategy, also without a reference to network neutrality. "Hillary Clinton has been and continues to be a strong supporter of net neutrality," Jin Chon, a spokesperson for the Clinton campaign, told eWEEK. Chon also said Clinton told the YearlyKos convention in August that she will "make sure that the architecture of the Internet stays open."
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Since the campaign began, though, Clinton hasn't mentioned network neutrality, despite having issued a nine-point technology plan. In October, she announced an Internet strategy, also without a reference to network neutrality. "Hillary Clinton has been and continues to be a strong supporter of net neutrality," Jin Chon, a spokesperson for the Clinton campaign, told eWEEK. Chon also said Clinton told the YearlyKos convention in August that she will "make sure that the architecture of the Internet stays open."
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I agree with you completely, though I have honestly given up on the USA ever being free again. For some reason, I feel like a prisoner even though there are no bars and no boundaries other than the oceans and neighboring countries. Then again, maybe it is just my accursed youth thinking for me.
To be Kin of the Stars... That is a dream worth having. ^_^
I'm afraid you may be right.
The problem isn't that the people here couldn't set things right if they wanted to, it's that the powers-that-be have such total control over the thought processes of the average American that he just doesn't seem to give a damn any more.
Many years ago an acquaintance told me [only half-jokingly, I've always thought] that McDonald's was an international conspiracy to lower the average intelligence of the human race to make it more susceptible to advertising. And frankly, it makes me a little queasy these many years later to see how prophetic [and accurate] his tongue-in-cheek comment turned out to be.
Well, conspiracy or not, fa[s]t food, a broken educational system, massive drug over-prescription, and the inculcation of a value system that goes no deeper than rock videos, "reality" shows, sporting events, and swilling beer has done its dirty work. The people have their "bread and circuses," and the rulers do whatever pleases them.
In other words, Americans have become too stupid to adequately respond to the problems facing them. The best they can now manage is to pop open another beer and crank up the volume.
I think, we need to remove safety labels so Evolution can take care of stupidity problem.
I agree fully.
I agree with you completely, though I have honestly given up on the USA ever being free again. For some reason, I feel like a prisoner even though there are no bars and no boundaries other than the oceans and neighboring countries. Then again, maybe it is just my accursed youth thinking for me.
To be Kin of the Stars... That is a dream worth having. ^_^
i actually agree with your last statement, the final frontier. Even the internet wasn't big enough to have its havens. But space, on the other hand, its impossible to see them trying to control all of it!
I agree with you completely, though I have honestly given up on the USA ever being free again. For some reason, I feel like a prisoner even though there are no bars and no boundaries other than the oceans and neighboring countries. Then again, maybe it is just my accursed youth thinking for me.
To be Kin of the Stars... That is a dream worth having. ^_^
i actually agree with your last statement, the final frontier. Even the internet wasn't big enough to have its havens. But space, on the other hand, its impossible to see them trying to control all of it!
are we going back to the 60's now? or are we looking at private space ventures and stuff... even then, if you try to go up against the governments in space, they will totally dominate you...
i will not let them take that away from me
So yeah the net is good and censorship is silly?
However, most of the jerk-offs that want to control the Internet simply want to prohibit any speech and behavior they don't agree with. And that – in a nutshell – is intolerable.
perhaps you've never actually experienced censorship firsthand?
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