Question:
Why isn't NBC, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and the rest of the main stream media reporting on the "Net Neutrality"?
2010-05-11 05:47:58 UTC
The Supreme Court struck down the "Net Neutrality" bill that Obama wanted to put into place. The bill was the opposite of what it said it was, like most of the bills in Congress these days. Now the Obama wants to make cable tv and the internet a "utility" so that it can be regulated. As Obama's Czar Cass Sunstein said, "we don't have to change the laws, we just have to change the regulations". As Hillary Clinton said, "it is every Americans duty to speak out against the government if they disagree with the government". Obama doesn't like people speaking out against his policies. So he is going to take away the information that is such a distraction to us the "People".
Seventeen answers:
2010-05-11 05:53:09 UTC
Do people actually watch those channels still. I guess there are some uneducated lemmings that do but thankfully there are alternatives that give real news, mostly truth and a stepping stone to your own research.



The reason they dont cover 'Net Neutrality' is obvious. Because they dont want you to think about it while their master gets the job done.
rensing
2016-11-29 02:46:47 UTC
FOX has constantly been an element of the mainstream media. the full "force-by using media" or "mainstream media" concept is in basic terms a scam so as to objective to get scores by using fooling the naive into thinking they're some thing distinctive.
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2010-05-11 06:13:19 UTC
You've got this so backwards, its not even funny.



First, the Supreme Court did not strike down any bills that Obama wanted to put in place. The US Court of Appeals ruled that the FCC does not currently have legal authority to enforce Net Neutrality. This isn't a ruling on the Constitutional validity of Net Neutrality, it is a legal ruling on what powers the FCC does/does not have.



Second, the purpose of Net Neutrality is NOT to give the Government power to regulate what web content is available to consumers. The purpose is to prevent Internet Service Providers from blocking or throttling legal, non-disruptive web content.



Net Neutrality is not a new concept, introduced by the Obama Administration. It has served as the unwritten law of the Internet since it's inception.



Fundamentally, it is an extension of the non-discrimination policies that apply to other utility industries. For example, the Electric company can price-discriminate by quantity of product use, but not the quality or purpose the product is used for. They must charge the same amount, per unit, for the electricity you consume, regardless of whether it is going to your lights or your television.



Net Neutrality seeks to impose the same regulations on Internet Service Providers. Comcast would be able to price-discriminate according to how much bandwidth/data downloaded you consume; but not charge you differing rates depending on what websites you visit.



There is NO provision in Net Neutrality to allow the Government to censor Free Speech on the Internet. If there was, you wouldn't see so many web content hosts, such as Facebook, Youtube, Google, eBay and others supporting Net Neutrality.



Net Neutrality seeks to defend the free and open exchange of ideas and goods on the Internet as it has been for the past couple decades. It is ISPs who wish to change the way the Internet works, imposing content tiering to cut an illegitimate profit off of the intellectual property of others.



Stop arguing against your own best interests. Net Neutrality is a GOOD THING for the rights of individual consumers. The only people that would be hurt by Net Neutrality are the telecom execs.



EDIT:



No, it isn't. You're buying into Big Media's distortion of the issue. Please, stop listening to Fox News, just for once; and listen to a business that happens to know a thing or two about the Internet.





Ne Neutrality According to Google:



Network neutrality is the principle that Internet users should be in control of what content they view and what applications they use on the Internet. The Internet has operated according to this neutrality principle since its earliest days... Fundamentally, net neutrality is about equal access to the Internet. In our view, the broadband carriers should not be permitted to use their market power to discriminate against competing applications or content. Just as telephone companies are not permitted to tell consumers who they can call or what they can say, broadband carriers should not be allowed to use their market power to control activity online.

—Guide to Net Neutrality for Google Users



EDIT 2:



What Ron Bloom thinks about Chairman Mao and the Free Market has no relevance to this discussion. You are completely distorting the true nature of Net Neutrality.



That said, if you you are really that hell-bent on opposing your own best interests when it comes to the Internet, there's not much anyone can say to convince you otherwise. I only hope that Ostriches like yourself don't wind up ruining the Internet for the rest of us who like it the way it is.
tribeca_belle
2010-05-11 06:02:12 UTC
Your view of net neutrality is completely backward. The Obama administration wants net neutrality by regulating the Internet so that the Internet remains open and Internet service providers can't restrict content access.



The corporate mainstream media won't report on it because their corporate owners don’t want the Obama administration’s regulations. The corporate powers want to be able to control Internet content. They absolutely do not want net neutrality.
Jennifer
2010-05-11 05:56:03 UTC
With the oil spill, volcanic ash, anything Tiger Woods, and the who's who of Hollywood topping the list of "news", where do they find the time? (sarcasm) But, leave it to Fox News to report on it. If it is controversial and/or makes the Obama administration and/or Democrats and/or liberals look or sound bad, you can bet Fox News has it covered.
Cptainamer
2010-05-11 06:01:16 UTC
All of the oppressive regimes started out controlling free speech and the media, next will come confiscation of firearms, and finally seizure of personal property. We are just fooling ourselves if we believe this administration has our best interests as it's guiding principle.Remain vigilant, speak out, vote, and hold the political elite responsible for their actions.
Concerned
2010-05-11 06:03:18 UTC
The liberals have already given up their freedom and liberty. Yet most of them don't even know that yet. They are condoning everything by turning a blind eye to it or defending it for the sole purpose to win treating this like a game. What they fail to realize is if we lose they also lose.
Scott Monster
2010-05-11 06:18:51 UTC
Jason K has a perfect explanation. Its a very good read.
2010-05-11 05:56:49 UTC
And the sheeple just don't see this coming. I'm embarrassed to be an American because most do not know their rights, don't seem to care as their rights are slowly taken away, are too dumb to understand whats going on in America today and wouldn't stand up for to save their rights anyway.
fangtaiyang
2010-05-11 05:53:55 UTC
It was not reported because there was nothing to report. Cable TV and the internet are already regulated, as are the "mainstream media" sources. The Faux news spin and the talk radio blather are the ones that twist information.
Barbwired
2010-05-11 06:17:24 UTC
Probably for the same reasons they won't report about Obama's connection to "Crime Inc."
2010-05-11 05:54:55 UTC
I heard on FOX that Obama wants to personally read and approve every email before they are sent.

Why does he need to have that much control over us?
Kinkade 0001
2010-05-11 05:56:24 UTC
Obama just wants total control.
John
2010-05-11 05:54:58 UTC
The gullible liberal media supports Obama.



The gullible liberals also helped Hitler rise to power. They later regretted it, but it was too late.
2010-05-11 05:51:31 UTC
The internet has given the public the true story of the banking cartel.
Peace Through Blinding Force
2010-05-11 06:00:28 UTC
They APPROVE of it and like Congressional Democrats, they know it's important to the liberal agenda that "the people" NOT KNOW about it.
2010-05-11 05:51:26 UTC
Liberal need censorship. They don't care what Obama does, because to them, he is like a god.


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