Comments on: Obama pledges Net neutrality laws if elected president

The presidential hopeful says if elected, he'll prioritize enacting antidiscrimination rules for broadband providers during first year in office. Will others follow?

[MyRightEye]

LOL... I guess even the other candidates are now taking notice of Ron Paul

What next? I bet the abolishing of the IRS will be next.

FLipFloppers!

Vote #1 RON PAUL.

[hlgriggs]

Ron Paul opposes Net Nutrality ya bonehead

Guess you didn't bother to check you're own candidates position did you?

Ron Paul sucks by the way.

[rcrusoe]

What difference will it make?

Mr. Obama will have to raise taxes so high to pay for all his
promised giveaway programs that most people won't be able to
afford Internet access.

[Mousefinger]

Big Whoop. I'm Still Not Voting For Obama.

How many zillion other vastly more important issues are out there? Hey, I know...Net Neutrality is important, but c-o-m-e on (Eileen)! Throw us a bone.

[fafafooey]

Akin to government regulation of the Internet

Be careful what you ask for - you just might get it, with the liberal fascination with net neutrality laws.

What it comes down to with me - if Moveon.org is for it, I'm against it. They are bunch of kooks. Obama is just cow-towing to them to try to get their money.

[martinhelseth]

Imagine the net not neutral

Imagine:

Obama says he wants net neutrality. A large company does not want this. The company degrades his service. You never hear of Obama on the net.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....................

A new way of lobbying. ?You say what we want and DO what we want or you don?t get heard.?

People get more and more of their content from the net. If companies can control the net they can control free speech and control elections.

Democracy would be dead.

Just imagine.

[Voodoo101]

I'm actually amused......

It seems to me that this is an issue that sidesteps a few bigger ones. For example, since the current administration is bent on keeping all of their surveillance secret (much is done for them by the way of using NSLs to gain access to ISP's and telecom's records) and the same people being sooooo pro business, it occurs to me that this should be the starting point. Who cares if the interntet has uniformity of access if "We the People" can't really use it.

Myabe the liberal crackpots are about 3/4 right on this one.

[HOTI Dave]

What hath regulation wrought?

Well, nothing here so far, right? I work for the Hands Off coalition on net neutrality, and we've consistently argued that the market is good enough to take care of these issues.

And guess what? It already has. What problems there have been have been isolated, identified by independent observers, and taken care of pretty quickly.

So, I disagree with Sen. Obama. We don't need new laws. We need people to stay attentive just as they have been.

[nyuu2]

Net Neutrality is not new. In 2005 the FCC reclassified the definition of an ISP. And so, the internet in the United States lost it's neutrality. It's time to *reinstate* it.

And there is evidence that regulation of telecoms has been succesful. Japan wouldn't have the 100Mbp/s symmetric connections it does today without it.

[nyuu2]

Net Netruality is nothing new. It used to be provided by the FCC until 2005, when they reclassifed the definition for an ISP. Now we need to reinstate it!

On another note, regulation of the telecoms does have evidence that it works. In Japan, there wouldn't be 100Mbp/s symmetric connections available today without it.

[realizePhiladelphia]

check out some more conversations about Net Neutrality at http://web.illish.us .