FCC moves to codify network neutrality principles

As expected, the vote was unanimous to launch the process, but the commission Republicans dissented on the factual basis undergirding it, which was that there were cracks and fissures in the open Internet that needed fixing. They warned of unintended consequences that could include reduction in service quality, a rise in price and disincentive to investment. . .

Net Neutrality is the beginning of the end for unregulated free speech on the Internet.

Its regulations attempt to fix what isn’t broken: the Internet.

There are those who think it’s overstating the case; that Net Neutrality is “no big deal”. Those people are the same basement civil libertarians who blogged unceasingly about the fascist Bush regime.

To repeat our point from earlier posts on the subject: this is not a Democrat-Republican, conservative-liberal issue. It is a freedom of speech issue, no matter which party holds the keys of power at any one moment.

That it has attracted a lot of attention on both sides of the political spectrum is encouraging.

It’s regulation dressed up as “protection”–the usual way government goes about the taking away of freedoms.

DBKP would gladly fight alongside anyone who opposes this–regardless of whether it’s Pat Buchanan or the Daily Kos.