This Blog Is NOT For Sale

I was thinking about net neutrality and the net futility fight against it.  It's going to happen for one simple reason. The people who want it ended, have the money to end it. I don't know if you're aware of this but, in this country, it takes money to make more money and that takes Congressmen. They ain't cheap!

Net neutrality basically means that all people have the same access to internet regardless of content. You looking at porn is no more or less important than someone viewing Facebook. Your service provider can't determine that you should be blocked from the porn or from DB, Wiki or any site. And currently all these sites are accessed with the same speed and at the low, low rate of whatever you are paying your service provider. The problem with this is that it is un-fucking-American!

You know who has high-speed internet for ALL,  at a low cost? Communist Europe! Yep. Whether you are Juan Pablo Smucatelli in Italy or Schlomo MacGuilicuddy in the UK or Haywood Jablome in Poland, you get good, fast access to internet and you pay less than we do here. 

Leading Internet Service Providers like Verizon are petitioning the savings accounts of Congress for the God-given right to charge more, of people who are willing to pay for it. We know how this country works. When the founders said that all men are created equal, they knew that blacks were then counted as 3/5ths of a person and they weren't remotely equal anyway and the figure was just for accounting purposes.

It seems stupid, doesn't it? Well, this is a country where people think they are fiscally conservative holding back the wages of millions of others so that they save maybe forty cents on today's lunch at McDonald's. A lawyer on Topix explained that to me. He is not alone in his density. In fact, at this moment someone is probably selling him against net neutrality by telling him that poor people have the same access to the internet as him! How does that make him feel?

Livid, probably. BTW, most people like the lawyer fear not a 40 cent increase in Big Macs as Australia saw with their minimum wage  rising to $16 per hour, they fear $20 Big Mac's like professional McDonald's trolls claim on the internet. If Ronald McDonald ever charges $20 for a Big Mac, it will be because they CAN. That, my friends, is free market capitalism.

Free market capitalism is also taking something that flows and impeding it so that you can charge more for it. It would be like if you diverted a river supplying water to parts of Southern California because other parts of SC might pay more. So, just as you might dam the river, you might damn the internet...to make more money. Essentially the service providers want to provide more expensive and exclusive service. so they can make more money. Hey, that's business. The only thing holding back solar and wind energy is that Exxon doesn't own either. If Congress gives them the rights plus subsidies, we'll see electric cars all over the place...getting run over by the exclusive gas-powered cars of the wealthy one percent and the wannabees.... Part of me wants to see this knowing that a Topix lawyer will be LOL'ing at the poor liberals who exist in darkness half the day because they can't afford to pay Exxon for sunlight during business hours and Enhanced Tier Noir Sunlight delivered to their homes after hours.

Evidently Netflix subscribers already felt the sensation of life after net neutrality when the squeeze was put on Netfix by providers who slooooooowed down Netflix until they agreed to pay more. When Netflix has to pay more, you have to pay more for Netflix. Remember: they are not asking you to pay for improved service brought to you by expensive technology. They are telling you to pay for not-slowed service. We could be like Europe but then we would be communist socialists. Do you want the same internet speed available to inner city types? Nope. In America it's not enough to make more than others, it's just as important that they make less. If that doesn't make sense to you, you are not American.

The Ferrerman blog remains free. For now. I made a vow to my dedicated non-readers and a threat to Topix trolls:

Then I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be ever'where—wherever you look. Wherever they's a fight so good people can post, I'll be there. Wherever they's a mod beatin' up a guy, I'll be there... I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad an'—I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready. An' when our folk post the stuff they believe an' live in the threads they build—why, I'll be there...

Now, is that priceless or what?