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Old 03-07-2018, 11:37 AM   #5
tw
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Same issues exist over marijuana. To obfuscate the issue, many want to argure states rights again. What is only relevant is the issue. Maijuana is as dangerous as heroine? Obviously a lie. Otherwise alcohol is also banned like heroine. We already made those mistakes almost 100 years ago.

We should further enrich Comcast et al because they only now charge so much as to buy NBC, Universal Studios, a cell phone company, all the largest skyscrapers in Philadelphia, and now Fox (meaning they would own two of the four national networks). But we must change laws to make them richer - so they will charge more for services that will otherwise only get less expensive to provide.

That is the issue. State rights should never even be discussed in these issues - and never mentioned even when discussing an issue called slavery.

Lies to destroy net neutrality completely ignore the issue. Comcast et al are only data transporters. They must transport any and all data without any regard for the content of that data.

Content providers should not at any time be controlled by the data transporters - as was well proven and a legal standard even in the earliest days of telephones. That is what destruction of net neutrality is about. Control of the entire system to increase profits - the product be damned.

Same problem is also promoted for Sinclair Broadcasting. They also want to the right to own all stations. Ownership by numerous organizations makes communication rich with perspective. Which is essential to have moderates. Sinclair want to do in this country what Berlusconi did in Italy.

Last edited by tw; 03-07-2018 at 11:45 AM.
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