Comments on: The Cure for America’s Internet http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/06/04/the-cure-for-americas-internet/ As The Media Watches The World, We Watch The Media Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:23:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Robert M. Cerello http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/06/04/the-cure-for-americas-internet/#comment-17817 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:17:40 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/06/04/the-cure-for-americas-internet/#comment-17817 The argument for needed Internet reform of the U.S.'s priest-king and royal monopolist system is perhaps persuasive here. Aceess to the Internet needs to be universal, for non-specific uses. Thanks to totalotarian law-making public-fraud basis and to our a-strategic neocon non-leaders, the U.S.'s citizens are ,as usual, paying much more for much less and sinking rapidly by world standards. Name an area where this is not happenng? Top- down management by money skimming tsars and their thieving incompetent executive cohorts never worked anywhere--and it never well. The German trains ran on time during WWII--but they were full of Nazis. And unless we abandon this Medieval postmodernistic malarkey, we can self-evidently never have anything in the empire except a wistful memory of a great country we nearly had only 60 years ago. Sad; and sick. One more point. The chosen analogue to the National Highway fomented under Ike as a solution to our transportation future produced short term benefits; but it cost 1 1/2 trillion dollars in real modern numbers, encoruaged the use of gas guzzlking cars, solved nothing in regard to diversified or public or renewable-fuel transportation, wrecked Route 66, was never even nearly completed and led directly to the government's subsidization of suburbia, abandonment of cities, misgovernment, mindless road building, neglect of infrastructure, neglect of real planningh, CEO overcompensation, overdepndence on oil, and icreased governmental interference, pollution, pr lying, failures and tsardoms in a wide range of other areas. So perhaps the better analogue would be to compare the Internet to the printing presses on which newspapers were first printed. This innovation freed men for the first time in human history from having to go through pseudo-religious, royal or governmental gatekeeper censors in order to be able to participate in the national marketplace of ideas. In the decades when anyone could start a newspaper, if we had had regulation of the FORMS of expression--of proof, facts and evaluations by standards--the content would have taken care of itself. In such a day, any man had an excellent chance of participating, and running off his own flyers, giving a speech, reaching people at least locally, even if he couldn't convoince the local editor of the newsworthiness of his ideas. How many people did it take in those days to publish a two page weekly? Think about it. Obviously, it's senators now who hold the key to destroyng or maintaining the Freedom of the Internet. That's who Media Channel and others need to be targeting. Preaching to the choir, to us who use it, is laudable, and may produce self satisfaction--but it accomplishes nothing else... Sponsor an essay cotest 1000 words on: "Why do we need an Internet free of gatekeeper tsars and fees?" Publish a dozen of the best; and award the winner an i-Pod. Free idea. ood or not? The argument for needed Internet reform of the U.S.’s priest-king and royal monopolist system is perhaps persuasive here. Aceess to the Internet needs to be universal, for non-specific uses. Thanks to totalotarian law-making public-fraud basis and to our a-strategic neocon non-leaders, the U.S.’s citizens are ,as usual, paying much more for much less and sinking rapidly by world standards.
Name an area where this is not happenng? Top- down management by money skimming tsars and their thieving incompetent executive cohorts never worked anywhere–and it never well. The German trains ran on time during WWII–but they were full of Nazis. And unless we abandon this Medieval postmodernistic malarkey, we can self-evidently never have anything in the empire except a wistful memory of a great country we nearly had only 60 years ago. Sad; and sick.
One more point. The chosen analogue to the National Highway fomented under Ike as a solution to our transportation future produced short term benefits; but it cost 1 1/2 trillion dollars in real modern numbers, encoruaged the use of gas guzzlking cars, solved nothing in regard to diversified or public or renewable-fuel transportation, wrecked Route 66, was never even nearly completed and led directly to the government’s subsidization of suburbia, abandonment of cities, misgovernment, mindless road building, neglect of infrastructure, neglect of real planningh, CEO overcompensation, overdepndence on oil, and icreased governmental interference, pollution, pr lying, failures and tsardoms in a wide range of other areas.
So perhaps the better analogue would be to compare the Internet to the printing presses on which newspapers were first printed. This innovation freed men for the first time in human history from having to go through pseudo-religious, royal or governmental gatekeeper censors in order to be able to participate in the national marketplace of ideas.
In the decades when anyone could start a newspaper, if we had had regulation of the FORMS of expression–of proof, facts and evaluations by standards–the content would have taken care of itself.
In such a day, any man had an excellent chance of participating, and running off his own flyers, giving a speech, reaching people at least locally, even if he couldn’t convoince the local editor of the newsworthiness of his ideas. How many people did it take in those days to publish a two page weekly? Think about it.
Obviously, it’s senators now who hold the key to destroyng or maintaining the Freedom of the Internet. That’s who Media Channel and others need to be targeting. Preaching to the choir, to us who use it, is laudable, and may produce self satisfaction–but it accomplishes nothing else…
Sponsor an essay cotest 1000 words on: “Why do we need an Internet free of gatekeeper tsars and fees?” Publish a dozen of the best; and award the winner an i-Pod. Free idea. ood or not?

]]> by: Cord;ey Coit http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/06/04/the-cure-for-americas-internet/#comment-17805 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:18:57 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/06/04/the-cure-for-americas-internet/#comment-17805 Sure is. This country has balkanized the Internet and made a whole lot of little phone companies rich off the back of their generally poor users. I live in Third World America served by a a nationally owned little phone company Fairpoint Communications. They provide dial up at 31.2 kps and that costs 22.95 a month. For 44 and change I can get slow high speed service at 63 kps.and there are no hotspots. I could take to satellites and pay 67 a month for irregurar sat service. Guess who paid for the r&D for Mr. Hughs service? And then there is a good Deal from Alex Jones at 674 a year in advance for his business service,extra money down. They the major players are cutting a fat hog in the ass for worse service than Uganda. This is living within 50 miles of Colorado Springs technical capital of Colorado. And one wonders how they invented the internet with such brillant economic models out of the twelfth century. Sure is. This country has balkanized the Internet and made a whole lot of little phone companies rich off the back of their generally poor users.
I live in Third World America served by a a nationally owned little phone company Fairpoint Communications. They provide dial up at 31.2 kps and that costs 22.95 a month. For 44 and change I can get slow high speed service at 63 kps.and there are no hotspots.
I could take to satellites and pay 67 a month for irregurar sat service. Guess who paid for the r&D for Mr. Hughs service? And then there is a good Deal from Alex Jones at 674 a year in advance for his business service,extra money down.
They the major players are cutting a fat hog in the ass for worse service than Uganda.
This is living within 50 miles of Colorado Springs technical capital of Colorado. And one wonders how they invented the internet with such brillant economic models out of the twelfth century.

]]> by: Jack Harrington http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/06/04/the-cure-for-americas-internet/#comment-17796 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:23:20 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/06/04/the-cure-for-americas-internet/#comment-17796 We are a plum ripe for the picking. In Texas, it seems, there is now a test under way to 'sell' Internet minutes to user/subscriber's as we currently do for cell phone users. I wonder, is the current status of the Internet in the US tied to yet another money scheme? Anyone want to field that one? We are a plum ripe for the picking. In Texas, it seems, there is now a test under way to ’sell’ Internet minutes to user/subscriber’s as we currently do for cell phone users.

I wonder, is the current status of the Internet in the US tied to yet another money scheme?

Anyone want to field that one?

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