The head of the Agency HATES Net Neutrality - (Fox in the Hen house)

[annabanana]

Bush Official in ‘Shouting Match’ with Open Access Supporters

The Bush administration’s top telecommunications official reportedly tried to “shout down” Net Neutrality and open access supporters after they called him out for spinning America’s Internet market as a wonderland of competition and consumer choice.

John Kneuer, assistant secretary of commerce and head of the National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), “quickly lost his temper and began shouting” after an audience of technology experts pressed him to explain how the U.S. had fallen so far behind other developed countries in providing Internet access to citizens.

According to The Register on Friday, Kneuer claimed that free market competition was the reason for the Internet’s “great success,” dismissing the history of Net Neutrality protections that have fostered new innovations and public participation online.

Kneuer, who previously served as a top phone company lobbyist for Washington law firm Piper Rudnick, told the audience that the “free market” (by which he means the current duopoly of large phone and cable companies) should be unencumbered by consumer protections and basic Internet freedoms.

They REALLY need to hear from us. This guy is poised to screw over the whole online community (us included) in the name of bux for the telecom industry. He is going to make it necessary for us to launch major, repetitive campaigns for legislation that will have to be watched with a microscope to keep the big money crooks from shutting down the millions of voices that the internet has unleashed.

go here:
http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2007/06/26/white-house-official-loses-it-in-fight-with-net-neutrality-supporters/

AND
pester your reps & senators. .

It is the NET that got Congress on '06. It is the NET that began to expose the vote-stealing machinery. It is the NET that brought out all the news that the corporate media and the reactionary right finds "uncomfortable".


(please kick)

[Cooley Hurd]

1. I'll do more than kick...

...a big ol' "R"! The internet might be the last bastion of a free press and of truth.:thumbsup:

[liberal N proud]

2. Another example of the bu$h regime placing an obviously incompetent person

in a position to control that which they know absolutely nothing about.

No one can convince me that this tactic is not intentional and has the motive of destroying what ever agency the incompetent individual is placed in charge of.

[annabanana]

3. Oh I'm sure this guy knows EVERYTHING about it. .

He was put there for the express purpose of neutering the voice of the American people and pouring MORE money and influence into the hands of the "Masters".

[madokie]

4. and if the net hadn't exposed the electronic voting machine for what they are

tools of the cabal* we would be well on our way to a whole new life, servants and masters and guess where I would fit in and prolly most here, servants.
The net is to not to be taken for granted any longer, bushco* has a vested interest in putting a stop to it

[acmavm]

5. Most telling phrase of the who article...

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Kneuer, who previously served as a top phone company lobbyist for Washington law firm Piper Rudnick

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I'll K&R this thread. Unless people wake up and start yelling back at corrupt clowns like this we won't be here typing away.

[demoleft]

6. In Putin's fashion...

...it seems that the biggest leaders in the world fear and try to install mousetraps to cage the internet.
I'm told by friends that russian programmers are among the best ones in ridiculing these agencies created to control the internet. We have to trust them.
The net is one of the few democratic areas left. We'll have to defend it against these viruses -> Bush, Putin and some others.

[annabanana]

7. If the true voice of the People was ever really represented in the

government of the people, this world would be a much better place.