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Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Kansas heads will be 'asplodin' today
First this:
And then tonight, some Republicans losing, and big time?
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Corporations win again. America? You lose
It's happened again.
First it was the Supreme Court handing over the capability to flood government election campaigns with unlimited amounts of corporate cash, now, yesterday, a federal court ruled in favor of corporations, this time regarding internet access :
"A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that regulators had limited power over Web traffic under current law. The decision will allow Internet service companies to block or slow specific sites and charge video sites like YouTube to deliver their content faster to users."
"The court decision was a setback to efforts by the Federal Communications Commission to require companies to give Web users equal access to all content, even if some of that content is clogging the network."
I've written here before how, years ago, it used to be the government's job to protect both the "little guy"--you and me out here in the country--as well as the broader interests of the country, against the corporations.
It is certainly less and less so lately.
With this ruling yesterday, a couple of things have come out.
First, it effectively strips the power of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to regulate the internet and all our access to it. If a corporation finds it in their best interest to slow internet access down, according to this ruling, they can do it.
That's bad for you and me but it's also bad, truly, for business.
In the rest of the world--Japan as an example, in particular--fast computer access is more of a given. The US is already known for having slower computer downloading and access.
This gives the companies the ability to give fast loading to those who can and will pay for it. Quick internet access to the highest bidder.
Typical, right? Computer capitalism. It's the "American Way", even if it is, at its core, unfair, imbalanced and, again, bad for the country, let alone bad for you and I--and small business.
It's clear this is what it's come to--more and more, the courts rule for the corporations and against the broader interests of the country, as I said above.
In this latest case, Comcast won while you and I and the US lost.
Let there be no doubt--the corporations are in control.
We need to take our country back from them.
Ralph Nader has been warning us for decades.
First it was the Supreme Court handing over the capability to flood government election campaigns with unlimited amounts of corporate cash, now, yesterday, a federal court ruled in favor of corporations, this time regarding internet access :
"A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that regulators had limited power over Web traffic under current law. The decision will allow Internet service companies to block or slow specific sites and charge video sites like YouTube to deliver their content faster to users."
"The court decision was a setback to efforts by the Federal Communications Commission to require companies to give Web users equal access to all content, even if some of that content is clogging the network."
I've written here before how, years ago, it used to be the government's job to protect both the "little guy"--you and me out here in the country--as well as the broader interests of the country, against the corporations.
It is certainly less and less so lately.
With this ruling yesterday, a couple of things have come out.
First, it effectively strips the power of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to regulate the internet and all our access to it. If a corporation finds it in their best interest to slow internet access down, according to this ruling, they can do it.
That's bad for you and me but it's also bad, truly, for business.
In the rest of the world--Japan as an example, in particular--fast computer access is more of a given. The US is already known for having slower computer downloading and access.
This gives the companies the ability to give fast loading to those who can and will pay for it. Quick internet access to the highest bidder.
Typical, right? Computer capitalism. It's the "American Way", even if it is, at its core, unfair, imbalanced and, again, bad for the country, let alone bad for you and I--and small business.
It's clear this is what it's come to--more and more, the courts rule for the corporations and against the broader interests of the country, as I said above.
In this latest case, Comcast won while you and I and the US lost.
Let there be no doubt--the corporations are in control.
We need to take our country back from them.
Ralph Nader has been warning us for decades.
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