I agree. On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:41:14 -0500 Harry Penner <hpenner at gmail.com> wrote: > At the risk of flames: the Internet as we know it has >flourished in > large part because its original sponsor, the federal >government, has > mostly left it alone. Why do we think adding government >regulations > to it will make it better (or preserve the freedom we >enjoy on it)? > Generally speaking, doesn't regulation take away freedom >rather than > increasing it, by definition? I'm no futurist but it >seems to me that > putting restrictions on the big guys is likely to affect >us little > guys in some unforeseen but unpleasant way. > > Sorry if the above sounds trollish but I just think we >should be > careful what we ask for. With companies you can >usually vote with > your feet to try to change or avoid their bad behavior, >but > regulations are usually universal and forever... And >the regs will > surely by written by people not nearly as close to or as >thoughtful > about the problem as we tclug'ers... > > Seems to me we ought to show up and tell the FCC to keep >their paws off us. > > -Harry > > On Aug 19, 2010, at 9:52, Brian <goeko at Goecke-Dolan.com> >wrote: > >> There will be a hearing on the Net Neutrality here in >>the Twin Cities. >> >> >> http://savetheinternet.com/mnhearing >> >> >> I am not associated with this, just thought people would >>be interested >> to know. >> >> ==>brian. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >