[Boatanchors] Options to BPL being squashed.

[J Forster]

Net neutrality is about preventing some (big) internet users gaining
priority access by paying more.  Moveon is doing the right thing in
opposing such attempts. The telecom giants are pushing this hideous
proposal solely for their own profit.

And to the right wing lovers, I don't think record shows anything but
fumbling incompetence, assaults on civil liberties, and lies in the past
6 years.

-John




WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:

> Dick,
>
> I agree with you.  What's at the link the previous email gives is
> totally
> devoid of any real information as to what they are asking you to sign
> a petition
> for.  They don't say where this bandwidth has suddenly appeared from
> (AFAIK
> none has recently been newly created - it has all existed since the
> end of the
> Big Bang).  Or what frequencies are up for grab.  Or anything other
> than verbal
> doubletalk.
>
> However, moveon.org is a well known left-wing pressure group.  They
> advocate
> things like total amnesty and free medical care for illegal aliens,
> open
> borders for illegal immigrants, abandoning the war against the Moslem
> terrorists,
> and other great ideas.  Their energy policy would be appropriate to
> the
> technology that existed in the 16th Century.  So I wouldn't sign
> anything that they
> advocate except for their death warrants.
>
> In a message dated 5/29/2007 10:12:27 PM Central Daylight Time,
> w1ksz at earthlink.net writes:
> > I read through all that obfuscation and for the life of cannot
> fathom
> > what I am endorsing. Doesn't anyone speak the Kings English any more
> ??
> >
> > 73, Dick, W1KSZ
> >
> > RJ Mattson wrote:
> > >I just learned about a really important issue, and signed a
> petition about
> > >it.
> > >The federal government is on the verge of turning over a huge
> portion of
> > our
> > >public airwaves to companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast--who
> will use
> > >them for private enrichment instead of the public good.
> > >These newly available airwaves are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
> to
> > >revolutionize Internet access -- beaming high-speed signals to
> every park
> > >bench, coffee shop, workplace, and home in America.
> > >BPL, phone and cable companies don't want this competition to their
>
> > Internet
> > >service--they'd rather purchase the airwaves at auction and sit on
> them.
> > >Read what is going on. You can sign the petition I signed here -
> urging the
> >
> > >government to make sure the public airwaves are used for the public
> good:
> > >
> >
> >http://civic.moveon.org/airwaves/?r_by=10433-3752612-Z4.GF8&rc=paste
>
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