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Re: Two mouth holes. Guess where the other one is..
Thread is over, Ahrenl wins. 
The most nonsensical argument is the "objectional content" angle. Besides the fact that the definition of said content is entirely subjective, it's nothing more than a boogeyman to frighten people into surrendering control of content to someone else.
Oh, I don't know what's best for me and my family, Comcast does! 
This is entirely hypocritical anyway, coming from the people who killed the superb TechTV and replaced it with the juvenile-pandering G4TV which really should be renamed TASTV - tits, arse and star trek television. 
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said by pb5k  :Thread is over, Ahrenl wins. Sorry, NGOwner makes a better argument and is the wisest course of action: »Re: I believe everything he says..
Cohen's best points:
Nevertheless, net neutrality proponents are again in full-throated attack mode, marching a new parade of horribles down the boulevard of the hypothetical. But the two grievances they cite are really phantoms: One reported claim of content-blocking by a telephone company was promptly snuffed out by the FCC last year. In the other, Cox was accused of mendaciously blocking access to online advertising competitor Craigslist when, in fact, third-party software -- soon fixed by its manufacturer -- was the real culprit.
And once we start down this windy regulatory road, why exempt from coverage Google's dominant position in Internet searches, eBay's dominant position in online auctions, Amazon's dominant position in online retailing of books and other products, or (again) Microsoft's dominant position in computer operating systems and in Internet browsers? Getting more government regulation never solved anything, only made it worse.
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| said by GOLFnSUN :Getting more government regulation never solved anything, only made it worse. Hardly. Clean air regulation (especially in California) has made quality of life better for many people. Clean water regulation is good too. I for one, prefer not to have arsenic and chromium in my water like they do in China. Here is the result of free-market deregulation in its extreme. It's not something I would care to see here.
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| said by pb5k :said by GOLFnSUN :Getting more government regulation never solved anything, only made it worse. Hardly. Clean air regulation (especially in California) has made quality of life better for many people. That is comparing apples to oranges. We all own the air we all don't own a business network. |
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| Actually I was responding to TK's very general statement that all government regulation is inherently bad. That is simply not true and I chose two of many examples to highlight that.
The internet is certainly a more complex issue. And while I agree the internet has a large business component it is also utilized for educational, government and military functions as well.
I don't particularly like the notion of the internet being regulated by the same people who think it's a series of tubes (although there are some people in congress smarter than that guy); But neither do I want corporations (whose only legal obligation is to shareholders) to regulate my usage either. 
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| said by pb5k :military functions as well. The DoD has their own private internet, they can't afford to have their internets held up by sticky tubes. |
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