Liberals to Regulate the Internet?
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Sorry, not liberals.\nIt is corporations, the ones that conservatives love, who are the ones who want to regulate the Internet. Big corporations like SBC and Time-Warner want to regulate the net so they can make bigger profits.\n\nIt is liberals who want to prevent corporations from seizing control of the Internet and limiting freedom.\nSorry to burst your bubble.
325975
Of course they should.  Unfortunately, if the left-wing extremist liberals have their way they will nuke us first.
248479
It is very tricky to answer. Yes it's a hard situation (no pun intended) the learning sites have routes to porn. Remember, the bill of rights was invented with no concept of internet and stuff, to stop the people posting the sites, you might be asking to tamper with our basic freedoms. This is an interesting topic.
749601
Absolutely. There is a huge problem with internet fraud and the proliferation of child pornography. MacLean's magazine had a great article recently titled something like, The Internet Sucks. People think they can spread hate propoganda and get away with it. I'm all for free speech too, but not this kind of free speech.
930390
The Liberals probably support YA! lol
360207
Would it be better to have no internet in China?\n\nTHOSE ARE THE RULES.\n\nThe dissidents know it.  (We do it to pedophiles here.)\n\nSometimes, to bring about change, you have to compromise.\n\nMaybe now, it's not so funny when you shoot off your mouth and hide behind your "right to free speech".
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Losing internet neutraility would be a very bad thing for everyone. Unfortunaltey, if the major telecom use their financial power through lobbysits, we may not have another option. \n\nEventually, the consumer will pay more for surfing the internet. I think the real losers will be the innovators. There would be no more Yahoo!, Google, Delicious, YouTube, etc, since they would have to pay more to use bandwidth. Startrups would't have the cash to get their products on the Net.\n\nCheck out the great article in my source:
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Al Gore. Oh no, wait, that was the internet that he invented. Never mind. Sorry.
703492
The internet is still such a recent phenomenon, that laws and policies are being created as we speak.\n\nBut unless you're pretty certain they'll be OK with it, you should ask someone if you can put a link to their website on your blog. That would  be the right thing to do from an ethical standpoint as well.\n\nA lot of people create 'banners' for other people to put on their websites as a link to their's. But some people don't mind if you put the URL.\n\nBottom line is, when in doubt check it out. I can't answer your question about the legal ramifications (see link, below). But my bet is that you could end up getting into some hot water with someone if they haven't given you permission prior to your adding the link. Why risk it? It's just a matter of asking.
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The government should keep its hands off the internet. They are already busy trying to figure out how they can tax it. Next will be censorship, followed by placing control of the internet into the hands of some Fat-Cat corporation like AT&T or Exxon, or worse than that some government agency.\n\nKeep the internet free of government control and censorship!\n\nParental controls are available to protect our children—use them!
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I recently worked for a political campaign and was given information about this issue.  Essentially right now, in exchange for their use of public land and other resources provided by the government, phone, internet, and cable companies have to remain essentially neutral (with obvious exceptions) regarding the content of the sites they host for their users.  Now the cable and phone companies have tried to quietly get members of Congress to "deregulate" (i.e., enforce the common good) this restriction.\n\nThis issue really cuts to the heart of how well-informed we citizens can be in today's democracy; ending net neutrality allows wealthy media interests to control the information that you receive, which obviously has the heavy potential to be biased in their favor, and hence not in favor of either the truth and your best interest.  The U.S. Conference of Mayors, Amazon.com, and every consumer group I've seen has been very strongly opposed to this step.  See:\n\nhttp://www.democraticmedia.org/issues/netneutrality.html\n\nhttp://www.usmayors.org/uscm/news/press_releases/documents/ActionAlert_041206.PDF
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in news stories of columbine type massacres they have pointed out how the people were said to have communicated over the Internet.  I hardly see how it would be possible but if the Bushies want to further restrict free speech like in the phone taps they'll figure out a way to do it.  \n\nI can see how you might monitor suspicious subjects but with the mass number of communications over the net don't see how you could ever obtain any useful info.  I can email my uncle that lives across town through a server in Asia, ya know what I mean.
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The supream court actually held a conference befor the internet became wide spread and ruled very accuratly about the internet. I am not really sure why they changed some of there views but i bet they overturn them all at some point. It could just be a test to see and show what happens if you try to regulate it. Here is what they said or a summary of it. \n\nThe internet is a realm that lives outside of time and space therefore it is impossible to regulate it in this context. \n\nThe fact is as information storage and internet speeds increase everything will be avialible to everyone and it will be uncontitutional to regulate it. The 9th ammendment will see to this.
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I guess you could say that, but only in the sense that so relatively few homes had Internet access like we know it today. There were existing versions of what we'd call the Internet before then, though - namely, ARPANET.\n\nAnd Al Gore had little to nothing to do with its creation.
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Al Gore once gave some horse-hockey answer about how since he sponsored some bill enabling some technologies, he could claim to be "Father of the Internet".  Basically, the media ran with that.\n\nOh, and quoting Al Franken is about as lame as one can get.
653456
Check the liberals into a mental institution...
561904
Internet providers agree to promote dismemberment materials so as to keep the internet fair and free. Perhaps you should adjust an adult content filter to insensitive. Does is have a setting for "Would rather remain ignorant of world events."?