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Originally posted by DanQ
From what I see/follow, this site is for American residents only correct or..?
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Dan; Apolyton CS
Well, two of their examples are Canadian examples:
In 2005, Canada's telephone giant Telus blocked customers from visiting a Web site sympathetic to the Telecommunications Workers Union during a contentious labor dispute.
Shaw, a major Canadian cable, internet, and telephone service company, intentionally downgrades the "quality and reliability" of competing Internet-phone services that their customers might choose -- driving customers to their own phone services not through better services, but by rigging the marketplace.
And while this, is a fairly international board, the majority of the community are American.
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It is an American bill they are fighting, but since it will affect the Internet it will affect all websites internationally. Apolyton gets a good part of its business from the United States so it would have as much a stake in this as anyone.
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I did not mean to imply that I believe this to be an American only issue, but rather that this specific website appears to be targetting Americans re: getting in touch with respective Senators.
Originally posted by Boco
Anyone have a noninflammatory explanation of why the senators who've expressed an opinion on this are divided strictly along party lines on this one?
No.
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Originally posted by Boco
Anyone have a noninflammatory explanation of why the senators who've expressed an opinion on this are divided strictly along party lines on this one?
Cause politicians are stupid and don't read most of the bills that are sent to them and often will just vote the way their buddies do.
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Originally posted by Boco
Anyone have a noninflammatory explanation of why the senators who've expressed an opinion on this are divided strictly along party lines on this one?
Looking at the list, I'm gonna guess that Republicans oppose "Net Neutrality" because it'll be more money for their business associates, while Democrats are for it either to be anti-Republican or to follow the "liberal libertarian" movement.
Of course, they could easily flip on this issue: Democrats could make it a "protect our home/children/community" (porn sites and the like), while Republicans fall back on free speech. If that were to happen, it's possible business interests wouldn't be able to counter Republicans' free speech concerns, so they'd throw their money to the Democrats.
Net neutrality is opposed by the local phone companies and cable companies, cause they control the wires over which broadband goes, and they dont want to be regulated. They say cause regulation will stop innovation in new technology. Others say cause they want to extract the last dollar they can get, and dont want anyone messing with their ability to charge monopoly rents.
They are opposed by folks like Google and Microsoft, who want to gain maximal benefit from new services they provide, and not be held captive to the local monopolists, who will extract the last dollar from them.
There are comparable interindustry battles in transportation, electric utilities, etc.
The pols who get money from the local phone companies and cable companies will oppose the bill. The ones who get money from the Googles, Microsofts, Yahoo's etc will support it. I dont think it has much to with party (other than that Dems are traditionally closer to the silicon valley companies, though not Microsoft) , and not even that much to do with ideology.
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