Comments on: Warnings of ‘internet overload’

By: discreet_chaos

discreet_chaos — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:13:18 +0000

Dave - Thanks.

I realized after posting my comment that Paul’s Libertarianism would override his internetness and that it may have been something that I had extrapolated from Gravel’s advocacy of “internet voting” and “Government by Plebiscite”.

Nonetheless for years, I’ve advocated the idea that the same justifications the founders had for Constitutionally guaranteeing a Postal System should and would include broadband, along with phone service and cable.

The vast majority of these services are just a bunch of wires and I’m not saying that government should go into television production or providing any add-ons for the wires. I’m just saying that we should treat the “Information Superhighway”, the same as we treat the Interstate Highway System and use the equalizing force of government to bring these services to every household and hamlet.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:00:27 +0000

Discreet,

Dr. Paul wants to legalize competition in first class mail (IE - the US Post Office).

He also refuses to regulate the internet in any way.

So, if you belive in a “right” to broadband, Ronny’s probably not your man.

By: thedetroitchannel

thedetroitchannel — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:31:16 +0000

we certainly don’t need the gov’t to make the internet better.

domain names are far too cheap. double the yearly reg fee, add more for icann (vs. the recent lowering of the change they collected from each reg), close the loop on “tasters” and a few other common sense items and there’d be $$$$ aplenty for added cap.

By: discreet_chaos

discreet_chaos — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:17:22 +0000

Personally and I don’t know if this is part of Ron Paul’s or anybody’s platform, but I’ve long advocated using the Constitution’s guarantee of Post Offices as a foundation for a Constitutional Right to free broadband.

So, I guess that unlike the previous commenter and some others, I’d prefer more government involvement.

By: Steve Boriss

Steve Boriss — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:01:35 +0000

I would suggest that the time to begin worrying is when the government starts believing this issue is their business and takes the first step toward regulating the Internet. Regulation of speech would ultimately follow, just as it did in broadcast. We bloggers must fight Net Neutrality legislation very hard, or we will greatly regret it later. (Steve Boriss, TheFutureOfNews.com)

By: Barney Lerten

Barney Lerten — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:19:43 +0000

As someone who nost must upload 150-megs from Bend, Oregon to a WorldNow server in NYC four times a day, as quickly as possible, and am seeing maddening fluctuations in the time it takes (zippy sometimes, crawl the next), I fear we’re already seeing the symptoms.

And as I try to get/keep one tech talking to another and not just pointing fingers or shrugging shoulders… I worry.