Obama for the internet

[~NeonFire~]

Why anyone who's concerned about the future of neutrality on the internet should vote Obama:

Obama:

The question, selected through an online video contest, was posed via video by small-business owner and former AT&T engineer Joe Niederberger, a member of the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org. He asked Obama: "Would you make it a priority in your first year of office to reinstate Net neutrality as the law of the land? And would you pledge to only appoint FCC commissioners that support open Internet principles like Net neutrality?"


"The answer is yes," Obama replied. "I am a strong supporter of Net neutrality."


He went on to explain the issue briefly: "What you've been seeing is some lobbying that says that the servers and the various portals through which you're getting information over the Internet should be able to be gatekeepers and to charge different rates to different Web sites...so you could get much better quality from the Fox News site and you'd be getting rotten service from the mom and pop sites," he went on. "And that I think destroys one of the best things about the Internet--which is that there is this incredible equality there."

McCain:“When you control the pipe you should be able to get profit from your investment.”Say goodbye to the internet we've loved for the past few years and hello to ISPs controlling what we access.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9806707-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
http://d5.allthingsd.com/20070529/d5-mccain/

[bubano]

You know NA is the last Soviet Union state still running.

[Black F 0 X]

Mccains going to lose anyway...

[Tyrien]

Even though I'm not a US citizen this would still have an effect on me. My position has gone from wanting Obama to win to Obama needs to win, and Mcain can't win.

[InfernoReaper]

If people are so blind as to base this election purely on net neutrality, there is no reason for them to vote. I am a big supporter of net neutrality and always will be, but I only see McCain responding to a question. I can't see him making time for the ESRB or net neutrality unless he gets some campaign money for it, and it's nowhere near a big issue to him.

Even if he did try to end net neutrality, the whole idea would have to pass both houses of Congress. People seem to forget about those other 535 people who have a say in these laws. Then you have to get down to the businesses that decide the issue for themselves.

If Time Warner tries to make me pay more for their already overpriced service, I'll call and cancel everything. The fiber optics they laid down haven't changed. Their customers could easily be getting 50MBps or more right now but the market isn't there yet, though they have no problem increasing their speeds any time they want. I'm paying $45 for 7MBps and it only costs $10 more for twice the speed? I don't get the whole 7 as it is; I'm lucky to get 6 at any given time, even at 3am.