Explaining Net Neutrality in a Way Tea Partiers Can Understand...

[Emit]

~snip~

Let's put this in a way Tea Partiers can understand. Let's say Mr. and Mrs. Tea Party Zealot love to use the Internet for political activism -- they frequent right-wing websites, send around clips of Hannity and Limbaugh, organize right-wing events, post sycophantic praise on Sarah Palin's website, the works.

But let's say their service provider is a (cue scary music) liberal company, which contributes heavily to Democrats. The media giant that this family pays for Internet access wants to make it easy for customers to access socialist content, send around pictures of Karl Marx, coordinate with the New Black Panther Party, and send money to gay illegal immigrants, but would make it exceedingly difficult to access RedState.com, visit Glenn Beck's activist sites, access Palin's Facebook age, etc.

At that point, Mr. and Mrs. Tea Party Zealot would probably be pretty unhappy. It's not fair, they'd conclude, that some Internet content (which they don't want) is easily accessible, while other content (stuff they do want) is slow and difficult. What they'd prefer is a level playing field, where all content is equally easy to reach.

What they want, in other words, is net neutrality.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_08/025194.php

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Nut newtrality is a lib-rul cornspiracy." - TeaBagliCon Sockpuppets, Inc. (R)

"Rush uddered it, so we knows it to be trew for shore."

- TeaBagliCon Sockpuppets, Inc. (R)

[myrna minx]

2. It boggles the mind ow they are against everything that's in their

best interest. From healthcare to net neutrality. Wow.

[Chef Eric]

3. It boggles my mind how many DEMOCRATS are against net neutrality.

My representative in Congress, Allyson Schwartz, is one of them.

:banghead:

[mrcheerful]

4. The problem is your dealing with nit wits who at any cost are out to stop

others from getting the same things they themselves enjoy. We saw it with welfare reform in the 90's, we seen it with HCR, we are seeing it with unemployment extensions. These nit wits want all safety nets removed, corporations deregulated, wages to go back to 1950 standards, the EPA eliminated, Education privatized, SS privatized even after they saw their 401k's wiped out they still think they could manage their retirement better then the goberment.