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	<title>Comments on: Telcos Turn to Stalin for Help Against Net Neutrality</title>
	<link>http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2008/03/04/skewering-the-telco-shills-once-again/</link>
	<description>Tracking the battle over Network Neutrality</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Raz</title>
		<link>http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2008/03/04/skewering-the-telco-shills-once-again/#comment-91488</link>
		<dc:creator>Raz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What I find interesting (and depressing) is that so many people actually buy into the lies these corporate cronies spew forth. No doubt these same misinformed people rely almost exclusively on the mass media for information. Without the existence of the internet to provide people with access to lots of different sources of information I am certain corporate power and corruption would be even worse then it is now. The importance of this fight to reinstate Net Neutrality can not be over stated. Control over information I am certain is at the very top of the to-do list for the relatively few in positions of power.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What I find interesting (and depressing) is that so many people actually buy into the lies these corporate cronies spew forth. No doubt these same misinformed people rely almost exclusively on the mass media for information. Without the existence of the internet to provide people with access to lots of different sources of information I am certain corporate power and corruption would be even worse then it is now. The importance of this fight to reinstate Net Neutrality can not be over stated. Control over information I am certain is at the very top of the to-do list for the relatively few in positions of power.</p>
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		<title>By: cct299</title>
		<link>http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2008/03/04/skewering-the-telco-shills-once-again/#comment-90914</link>
		<dc:creator>cct299</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2008/03/04/skewering-the-telco-shills-once-again/#comment-90914</guid>
		<description>What I find interesting is the contradiction in their argument concerning the best way for competition to remain healthy on the net.  The telco's are arguing that net neutrality legislation would lead to some kind of socialist concentration of control because it would not allow the free market to "work."  Yet exactly the opposite is true.  When there is no government intervention almost every industry gravitates towards oligopolies or monopolies (just look at the history of AT&#38;T).  However, in Europe where they have a system more akin to market socialism ISP competition is much healthier and their average bandwidth speed is faster.  So how can the telco's possibly claim that net neutrality would be bad for competition?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What I find interesting is the contradiction in their argument concerning the best way for competition to remain healthy on the net.  The telco&#8217;s are arguing that net neutrality legislation would lead to some kind of socialist concentration of control because it would not allow the free market to &#8220;work.&#8221;  Yet exactly the opposite is true.  When there is no government intervention almost every industry gravitates towards oligopolies or monopolies (just look at the history of AT&amp;T).  However, in Europe where they have a system more akin to market socialism ISP competition is much healthier and their average bandwidth speed is faster.  So how can the telco&#8217;s possibly claim that net neutrality would be bad for competition?</p>
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		<title>By: barry payne-economist</title>
		<link>http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2008/03/04/skewering-the-telco-shills-once-again/#comment-90400</link>
		<dc:creator>barry payne-economist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2008/03/04/skewering-the-telco-shills-once-again/#comment-90400</guid>
		<description>IS NET NEUTRALITY A FORM OF TERRORISM, FASCISM OR JUST ORDINARY TOTALITARIANISM?

Godwin's law has prevailed.  Recently discovered evidence shows ... wait for it ... that in addition to the Nazis being vegetarians &lt;i&gt;they also supported net neutrality&lt;/i&gt;, only back then it was called &lt;i&gt;analog genocide&lt;/i&gt; and it brought the Nazis down in a thundering clash of suffocating regulations.

That's how Nazis, vegetarians and now, "Net Neuts" came to be lumped together and mocked as brain-dead "Vegetative Vegans" by talk radio and anyone else right of Attila the Hun, except for Jonah Goldberg of course, whose access to this info was blocked by a Liberal Fascist ISP ...

The internet would have died forever in Nazi Germany had it not been for the Communist Reds putting Sputnik into orbit in the '50s which &lt;strike&gt;baited&lt;/strike&gt; startled the innovation-deprived Americans so much that they paid taxes to support the ARPANET which evolved into today's internet.

So clearly, communism was responsible for the internet.  It inspired the U.S. Federal Government to create the internet after net neutrality kept it out of the hands of the Nazis due to excessive regulation.

Likewise, Kessler, the self-made economic historian and forecaster, is surely aware that the transistor could never have been invented by the largest regulated company in the world at the time, AT&#38;T.

Instead, this was one of the many myths developed over the years by soft-headed socialists determined to obscure the real origins of the transistor, which was actually developed in hidden underground caves with exclusive vertical property rights to the stars.

Libertarian anarchists were inspired by reading Ayn Rand and worked merrily in the caves, hiding from the book-burning brownshirts above, otherwise known as "three branches of government" in a democracy.

Of course the inventors did come out of hiding long enough to acquire monopoly patents from the communist government for their invention to protect them from evil competition, then scurried back into their caves.  They also used public water and electricity but
pretended it came from private vending machines.

Surely Kessler will be publishing new evidence shortly for all that lost economic productivity attributed to the presence of common carriage regulation and its &lt;i&gt;de facto&lt;/i&gt; carry-over in the form of net neutrality ... talk about stifling competition, well hey, it was like Jesse Owens up against the Nazis in the Olympics ... wow, Godwin's law explains just about anything doesn't it? ...

After all, if net neutrality brought down the Nazis, imagine what it has &lt;i&gt;already&lt;/i&gt; done to us, much less what it could do ... 

Kessler has stumbled onto the holy grail link of dot.com bubbles to housing bubbles to China bubbles of foreign currency &lt;i&gt;all caused by net neutrality&lt;/i&gt; and if allowed to continue &lt;i&gt;will destroy Iraq and Afghanistan as well&lt;/i&gt; unless we abandon it for at least 100 years.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>IS NET NEUTRALITY A FORM OF TERRORISM, FASCISM OR JUST ORDINARY TOTALITARIANISM?</p>
<p>Godwin&#8217;s law has prevailed.  Recently discovered evidence shows &#8230; wait for it &#8230; that in addition to the Nazis being vegetarians <i>they also supported net neutrality</i>, only back then it was called <i>analog genocide</i> and it brought the Nazis down in a thundering clash of suffocating regulations.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s how Nazis, vegetarians and now, &#8220;Net Neuts&#8221; came to be lumped together and mocked as brain-dead &#8220;Vegetative Vegans&#8221; by talk radio and anyone else right of Attila the Hun, except for Jonah Goldberg of course, whose access to this info was blocked by a Liberal Fascist ISP &#8230;</p>
<p>The internet would have died forever in Nazi Germany had it not been for the Communist Reds putting Sputnik into orbit in the &#8217;50s which <strike>baited</strike> startled the innovation-deprived Americans so much that they paid taxes to support the ARPANET which evolved into today&#8217;s internet.</p>
<p>So clearly, communism was responsible for the internet.  It inspired the U.S. Federal Government to create the internet after net neutrality kept it out of the hands of the Nazis due to excessive regulation.</p>
<p>Likewise, Kessler, the self-made economic historian and forecaster, is surely aware that the transistor could never have been invented by the largest regulated company in the world at the time, AT&amp;T.</p>
<p>Instead, this was one of the many myths developed over the years by soft-headed socialists determined to obscure the real origins of the transistor, which was actually developed in hidden underground caves with exclusive vertical property rights to the stars.</p>
<p>Libertarian anarchists were inspired by reading Ayn Rand and worked merrily in the caves, hiding from the book-burning brownshirts above, otherwise known as &#8220;three branches of government&#8221; in a democracy.</p>
<p>Of course the inventors did come out of hiding long enough to acquire monopoly patents from the communist government for their invention to protect them from evil competition, then scurried back into their caves.  They also used public water and electricity but<br />
pretended it came from private vending machines.</p>
<p>Surely Kessler will be publishing new evidence shortly for all that lost economic productivity attributed to the presence of common carriage regulation and its <i>de facto</i> carry-over in the form of net neutrality &#8230; talk about stifling competition, well hey, it was like Jesse Owens up against the Nazis in the Olympics &#8230; wow, Godwin&#8217;s law explains just about anything doesn&#8217;t it? &#8230;</p>
<p>After all, if net neutrality brought down the Nazis, imagine what it has <i>already</i> done to us, much less what it could do &#8230; </p>
<p>Kessler has stumbled onto the holy grail link of dot.com bubbles to housing bubbles to China bubbles of foreign currency <i>all caused by net neutrality</i> and if allowed to continue <i>will destroy Iraq and Afghanistan as well</i> unless we abandon it for at least 100 years.</p>
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		<title>By: Haven&#8217;t I Seen You Before?</title>
		<link>http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2008/03/04/skewering-the-telco-shills-once-again/#comment-90369</link>
		<dc:creator>Haven&#8217;t I Seen You Before?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2008/03/04/skewering-the-telco-shills-once-again/#comment-90369</guid>
		<description>[...] an Andy Kessler piece, Save The Internet quotes Kessler who says: “With Net Neutrality, there will be no new competition and no incentives for [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] an Andy Kessler piece, Save The Internet quotes Kessler who says: “With Net Neutrality, there will be no new competition and no incentives for [&#8230;]</p>
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