Tyranny is forever on the march. The internet has overtaken mainstream TV and cable news. For tyranny to continue, the internet, like the Tea Party must be crushed. The establishment will lie about their intentions but make no mistake, this is to crush political opposition by having "fair and unbiased" government overlords regulate what we read and see.

Bend over America and get the KY.

Odumbo's getting ready to do it to America again !!

With the blessings of the dem-wit party !

Had ENOUGH destruction of America, yet ?

"If you like your Internet, you can keep your Internet."

Yep, like you could keep your doctor and healthcare plan !

This is all the things that Hitler and Stalin would do, take control of media, health care, information, schools, imposing his ideology on others. This is a take over of free society and the people are just watching it happen. History says blood will be spilled. How much and by whom is yet to be determined.

Stalin won WW2. He got half of Europe. American taxpayer losers got to bail out the other half.

This administration reminds me of the Martians in the film "Mars Attacks!", who are running around the streets exterminating all life around them while holding translators that bellow out,

“Don't run! We are your friends, ack ack!”

Run from the left, THEY ARE NOT you're friends...

Turn up the Slim Whitman!!!

Just wonder how long the American people are going to put up with this Fascist bastard spitting in our faces!!WAR IS ON THE HORIZON!!

They're just afraid we may know the truth and they can't have that. Time to silence all the opposition and get this dictatorship further down the road.

Obama is raping the country and the "PC" leftist media is allowing it...

REPEAT, allowing it !

That makes them complicit with this criminal O-hole.

How much longer are the real Americans going to be forced to put up with this type of behavior?

Until we RISE UP.

Ready

Hi, I'm from the government and I'm here to help......... and Ronald Reagan said that if you heard those words, RUN!

Words from the U.S. soldiers in Iraq: "I'm from the U.S. gummint, and I'm here to HELP you." Before they killed a million Iraqis who had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11. And it only cost the American taxpayers $5 trillion. When that creepy-looking Uncle Sam first pointed his finger at Americans and said, "I want YOU!", did you think he was going to stop at your wallets?

What a nitwit you are!

Google "Net Neutrality" and learn something about the subject. Sheesh!

You're the nitwit. Laws, and this case regulations, which claim one thing while doing the opposite are the rule, not the exception. Just take a look at the largest law: Affordable Care Act. That law makes Healthcare neither affordable nor involves care.

Yes, you should !

I would not expect them to even try to learn the truth about net neutrality. They apparently are happy to live in a conspiracy world where the government and Obama are out to get them. Its very sad they hold onto fear and hate over reason.

...and over facts as well.
It's difficult to find another web site with such a concentration of low-thinkers... except maybe Alex Jones' target audience.

Just because our opinions differ, or we can not express our ideas as articulately as you may be able to, does not mean we deserve to be labeled as low thinkers. Your out of hand dismissal of any opinion that differs from your own and the subsequent classification of the presenters of said opinions as "Low Thinking Individuals" speaks volumes of your mettle.
I do not particularly enjoy the fact that our government, in general, has become so much a part of our daily lives, OK?
From the myriad regulations at our local level all the way up to the office of the president, these micro managers of daily affairs are strangling any SENSE of freedom and choice.
Do we really need our leaders to dream up laws regulating how much soda I can purchase with my own hard earned money? It is absurd. Is there not ANYTHING more pressing in the city of New York?
That is just one small example of how petty and LOW THINKING those who GOVERN us have become.
If you enjoy having your life and daily affairs plotted out for you and controlled by the officials you elected to represent you then that is your right as an American. I for one do not.
How about a free market economy where everyone is allowed to participate without government interference, political favoritism, or over regulation?
How about we - the citizens of this once great republic - STAND TOGETHER and DEMAND our congress to enact sensible laws making it illegal for any branch of government to meddle in the private affairs of internet companies and what they have built legally?
What the FCC should actually be concerned with is the formulation of a plan to stop assigning exclusive territories to ISP's and favored cable companies. It is time for our so called leaders and political appointees to realize that maybe a little competition in a free market economy can be a good thing and America should allow any IT company to provide internet service to any region. The more competition there is in any given area translates directly to lower consumer prices, more choices, and higher quality service. This point cannot be argued.

"Low Thinking Individuals" include those who rant on about a subject, like net neutrality, that they don't even know the definition of, let alone understand anything about it. They prefer to simply swallow whole the partisan-tinged narrative of others, rather than educate themselves on the topic.

Here, for example, are the views of the actual inventors of the internet and the world wide web:

Don't change the web
The rush to abandon net neutrality swaps a functioning system for the unknown.

"Allowing broadband carriers to control what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the principles that have made the Internet such a success," Cerf said in his testimony before Congress in 2006. "Promoting an open and accessible Internet is critical for consumers."

http://www.theverge.com/201...

Deep Dive: In Defense of A Neutral Net
https://www.eff.org/deeplin...

The Net Neutrality Debate In 2 Minutes Or Less
Who gets to control what's passing through those pipes?
http://www.scientificameric...

I do agree with the concerns of the men and women who pioneered the concept of the internet, however, to allow a government agency to oversee anything in this day and age is suicide. The best thing that EVER happened to the net was when DARPA relinquished control of the idea and allowed private enterprise to build the net into what it has become today. Allowing any kind of government oversight at this point would be taking a giant step backwards. What we really need is to allow more regional competition to enter the fray. That is how the net would remain open and accessible for all. In my area, for example, we are forced to choose from ONE internet and Cable provider-Comcast. Why is that? How does Comcast get to be the ONLY area provider of internet access and cable delivery services? When the markets are more saturated with access providers then the net is safer from monopolization and will remain neutral on its own. If there is only one gas station in town, you are going to pay the highest price for fuel, and the fuel will be the lowest octane they can legally sell. You know it and I know it. As soon as another gas station opens for business prices go down and quality goes up because no ONE entity is controlling access to the fuel pipeline. Does this make any sense to you at all? I am not being rude, I am asking.

What you are saying makes sense to me. On an open and level playing field, in most cases, quality increases and prices decline in proportion to the strength of competition.
Unfortunately, there are some industries where 'network effect', de facto propriety standards or infrastructure bias happens that raises the barriers to entry of competition, in some cases, making it impossible.
In the case of cable, for example, once a company has reached a 'tipping point', it can be almost impossible for another cable company to compete - especially due to the high cost of the 'last mile'.
The internet, driven by the government and designed as a communication system able to withstand the effects of a nuclear attack, did explode with its commercialization, as you suggest. It was, and so far, still is, an open system, having evolved with net neutrality. It has maintained that openness in spite of not because of commercialization, in most part because of the way it was designed initially.
It is in the nature of powerful corporations to move in the opposite direction of openness in order to lock in customers to their own ecosystem and the internet has had its share of attempts to make it proprietary. Think about the initial 'walled garden' of AOL, or Microsoft's non-standard 'contributions' via Internet Explorer, or even Apple's proprietary ios app ecosystem.
The efforts among a handful of powerful internet providers like cable companies to end net neutrality is simply the latest attempt to corral and control the internet. Internet-delivered TV content like Netflix (for example) threatens their very lucrative business model. While you were forced to purchase their bundled content through their pipes, they could continue to gouge you. Decoupling the content from the pipeline, though, gives you choice...and freedom.
Being able to charge their competitors like Netflix extra to send you TV content through the pipes gets rid of net neutrality, stifles innovation, competition, and ultimately freedom

It is certainly difficult to refute much of what you said here. All of you points are well thought out and make sense. However, I will point out that it was the cable companies who risked their capital to invest in, and construct, the physical network. They do own the pipeline. It is theirs to do with what they want. The only example I can give is this: I live on the water, along the Potomac River, my boat dock belongs to me. Sometimes I offer dock space in the summer for a fixed price. If you want to dock a boat in my slip, then you have to pay me. I built the dock, it belongs to me, but the River it floats on does not. That is public, much like the roadways that the cable lines run down. I can build my dock as big as I want, and, more spaces means more money, but, also more maintenance. Maintenance which I am responsible for. Now if the Army Corps of Engineers comes down and says to me, "Hey buddy, we are regulating activities at dock, and from now on you can only charge X-amount of dollars and no more, because it is not fair to the new guy who just financed a waterfront home took out a loan on a new boat and doesn't make as much money as some of your other slip holders and just can't afford your fees. We want to make sure he gets a chance to enter the playing field here."
That is what I see this whole argument boiling down to really. A Government entity fixing prices. To make things fair, to level the playing field for the little guy.

So true. The rise of talk radio and the internet has been marked by the Left for assault. Attempts to crush these two mediums will be couched in soft and unassuming terms that the clueless drones out there will believe is warranted and required, but make no mistake, any state involvement in either of these areas will spell the end of free speech and independent thought. The Left hates talk radio and the internet because each confronts the truth of what the state is and how progressives are willing to destroy this country in order to control us all.

No one said leftists hate the Internet (leftist, not liberal. You're not fooling anyone). Your straw man is invalid, leftists hate competition, alternative ideas and most of all, freedom.

That's hilarious!

Does the right "own" radio? Yup. They're conservative and although it takes them awhile, once they figure out a new technology, it's old technology, and they stick with it.

As to the internet, though, they are absolutely clueless. Why, they don't even understand what "Net Neutrality" is.

Here, try this. Load up your web browser, and in the address textbox type: www.google.com.

When you see the webpage show up, place your cursor in the textbox and type Net Neutrality, then press 'Enter' (you'll find it where your typewriter Return key used to be).

Now click on a few of those links that show up and educate yourself.

Then come back and share with us what you've learned

Your welcome

Progressives and other intellectually challenged individuals support network neutrality because they don't understand what the internet is, let alone how it works.

Ahh the old "I'm hip and groovy and conservatives are old fogeys" routine. Just because you're unable to provide a valid argument is no reason to bore us with your tired, bigoted stereotypes. Naming a bill using language that is in opposition to its goals is nothing new. Pro Tip: there's nothing "neutral" about regulation. By its very definition, it chooses sides. But you leftists are far too "cool" to bother with such trivial nuances.

Cmon guys, how else can the new world order, a one monetary system and complete surveillance system be put in place without control of the internet...

That's why they want control, along with self enriching themselves along the way.

Can you visualize a 'Department of The Internet' ?

Disgusting thought.

or an internet czar!

Reagan started czars.

Department of Internet Safety...for the children...and making our country safe

It's called the Department of Homeland Security.

But why are we willing to give it to them?

What can we do, seriously? Cancel our cable?

As we no longer require immigrants to assimilate and integrate. We no longer want them to be Americans, not hyphenated-americans. WE can no longer stand as one to, Yes, cancel those Internet subscriptions.

You do understand that it's cable companies and other billion dollar corporations who want to put up paywalls and force some web sites to pay toll... Right?

That's why they want to end net neutrality!

Blinded by the light??

wrapped up like a douche in the middle of the night

The only websites required to pay a toll are those taking up the lion share of the traffic on the internet and not coincidentally also require higher level quality of service (i.e. video) than generic traffic (i.e. html, email, etc.).

The internet is the LAST METHOD OF FREE COMMUNICATION that people have access to. A free flow of ideas and information that mainstream media and govt. try to stifle or prohibit. These proposed rules need to be fought tooth and nail to prevent. Control is the goal.

You're right that control is the goal for billion dollar companies who want to end net neutrality!