Since my access to my home computer is by a wireless device (I don’t have a cell phone, tv or cable and don’t plan to) - it’s exempt from regs and I’m at the mercy of my ISP = I don’t know how long I’ll be able to use the internet.  My service is slow, slower and so bad I can’t use the internet in “peak” hours now.

Reminder to some: we, the people, own the airwaves but we, the people are getting screwed by the corporations and gov’t/pols that support them (helped by campaign financing).

I gotta say this!

For the past two weeks, ATT’s service was down for some folks… me was one of them.

They had to change ‘ports’ they said.

Wonder if NOW I will have to move and go invisible.

This is just the beginning…. is satellite internet good from a private company NOT affiliated with these tyrannical monsters? 

Or another communications solution?

Same old poop profits before people, don´t like it,
say something, get locked up.What´s a poor boy to do?
Storm corporations, take it to the street. History
has told us, 1% owns 90% of everything, no other
option, but to take it to the street. Corporations
are screwing us, and what do we do; we screw each
other instead of attacking corporations, 108 years of
Coca cola, what do we have to show for it, diabetes
pandemic, and tax payer paying for it all.The
acceptable addiction is the NET, so free and equal
and addicting. Now enough users, lets make them pay
big time. Drug pusher, free samples, get hooked ,
price goes up, BUNCH OF LOW LIFE GEEKS. Technical
addiction are you a victim? Say No to technical
addiction, or JUST DO IT. no thinking, is your mind
right. you know the rest.

The shut-down was going to happen anyway, whether Assange had squeaky-clean motives or, as some suggest, he had been bribed to bring about an earlier demise to it. The feds have wanted this ever since that philandering dipshit Clinton was in office. It was a thorn in their side and it was only a matter of time before they went after the one media source that could spread the truth virally.

That’s the difference between politicians and true citizens; the citizens realize the sacrifices one must make to support the republic, whereas the politicians actually took an oath to uphold it and then said, WTF. Those that scream the loudest about internet reform are the worst type of traitors. They slide into office promising to support the tenets they were elected on only to then change the rules while they are in power. That’s why we make nooses.

Excuse to police the Internet?
By F. William Engdahl, 7 December 2010

http://engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/Geopolitics___Eurasia/US_Con_Job/us_con_job.html
[...]
What is emerging from all the sound and Wikileaks fury in Washington is that
the entire scandal is serving to advance a long-standing Obama and Bush
agenda of policing the until-now free Internet. Already the US Government has
shut the Wikileaks server in the United States though no identifiable US law has
been broken.
[...]

I don’t know why people expect real change. Did we forget overnight that our government is bought and paid for? We have to do more than complain to corrupt politicians and broken government. Now dry your eyes and stand for yourself…

Read “Common Sense 3.1” at ( http://www.revolution2.osixs.org )
We don’t have to live like this anymore. “Spread the News”

We have to stop playing defense all the time. It is time to go on offense.

Welcome to the revolution…

This is what happens.  People begin to ditch land lines, cell phones packages get
more complicated and expensive.  People begin to ditch cable tv, the corporate
providers find other ways.

And you are given a little change to pay for it with a payroll tax holiday which
won’t be enough to pay for all the extra increases and charges designed to take
that big of change of your pocket and into theirs.

Too bad we the people don’t have an agency looking out for us, protecting our
interests.  Sadly, the govt seems to have abdicated that role.

Like all progressives, you are trying to applying intelligent, progressive ideas on a right-wing country. After demolishing Ralph Nader et al progressives, you have nowhere else to go to besides Obama, who only has to be left or ultra-right republicans to be defined as even remotely progressive. I’m afraid America is going down the tubes where there will just be rich or poor, as the middle class is being decimated as we speak with an ineffective president residing in the White House. You have nowhere to go as both dems and republicans eat from the same poisonous tree.

The one thing that people in the USA forget is that nearly the entire utility infrastucture of the US was built with either the help of the peoples government, or the government entirely. (if you live outside of a major city, odds are the federal government paid for all the utilities that are at you house, your power, phone, water and sewer, if you are lucky to have sewer.)

The only reponse the people of the US will have after the corporate takeover of the FCC, will be to have a government (peoples) run broadband system. (the people used to own the “public airwaves”) You hate to go this far, but what choice will we have when the voices of corporate opposition are drowned out, or eliminated altogether by the “free market”?

Sure thing. They built the pipes and hence should have unlimited dominion. Not so fast. They had to get right of way and/or purchase bandwidth which is by law our, the people’s, dominion. Property easements are public property, I believe.  The notion that there is, by definition, a difference in a phone land line and and internet connection is a sidestep from established principle of privacy but also contradicts precepts of agreement under which access was originally granted to corporations. The FCC gave up too much. Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile ~ just like with derivatives cubed.
  So, I’ll let corporations promulgate their agendas to market wares and services within pipes; wire, cable and radio wave, nonetheless, they’re doing it on grounds fought for with blood.

Bill,
The issue over the “free” part of the “free internet” was about openness, ....... not shekels.

Secondly, the ruling by the FCC is only a mirror of the dystopian mindset of our out of touch legislature; that corrupted and still corruptible body of seething avaricious egoists with no social conscience or integrity. Our government is like a rabid dog, chasing its own tail until one day soon it will collapse in an exhausted heap. Actually, it isn’t OUR government because WE the People had been wishing, hoping , and voting for something different. The government we have is the result of a gang of interlopers who have been sneaking in over the years and taking and oath they had no intention of living up to. That is THEIR government, not ours. We want OUR government back.

My two cents.

Bill,

What options do we have that are not worse than a totally open and unrestricted
internet, worldwide?

Please specify.

(Good on you for ditching the TV.)

Raking off profits is one thing, but this being a capitalist nation with no conscience, there seems little we can do about that.

It’s freedom of information I worry about, and open communication. That’s what is most likely to disappear.  Remember, owners don’t want workers to be independent thinkers.  Owners wand followers, buyers, users who are afraid of their shadow, who don’t even know or care when they aren’t getting true information vital to democracy.

This is precisely what Assange and Manning were interested in—free, vital information for the people—particularly in this case about US foreign policy, but ultimately about everything.  If you read Assange’s (mostly squelched) statement of reasons, you know how vital he considers internet freedom.  Let him and Manning be sacrificed and you will be sorry later—not just for their lives (which is very important) but for freedom of both internet access and content.