I specifically wrote that The phone companies have managed to give us free
unlimited land lines for local calls for 50 years or more,
I did not say anything about long distance. So so much for knowing your facts.
Everyone kept saying in he 70s that they were going to start charging by the
minute for local service. However I have to agree with the rest of what you
said. If government was a business it would have failed 40 years ago. What
can anyone do about things like Amtrak and the Post Office at this point but
privatize them and let the chips fall. I know people don’t want to hear that,
but things are just going to get worse. Of course it would throw a lot of
people out of work and probably hurt the short term economy. If they can’t
survive and make a profit then they need to go away. I guess all the rural
areas that won’t get served because the private companies can’t make money
there would just be out of luck. Or some system could be put in place that
would be a pool like insurance is handled now that would force all companies to
take some of the unprofitable areas in order that universal service be
maintained.
From: Dewey Bradley
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 11:43 PM
To: Adaptive technology information and support.
Subject: Re: [ATI] Stop internet censorship
part of it is bad, but I just have a problem with the government telling
companies how to run there business, when the government can't even balance a
checkbook, I think we need to have some of the business excets run the country
for a while, because look at the government and how the manage, if it were a
business, it would have failed 40 years ago, and that part can be blamed on all
the presidents and as well as the rest of the children in D.C
If anything should be band, it should be kiddy porn, but then every would start
saying that the have the right to watch it.
If you don't like an ISP, then switch, and no we have not had free long
distence for 50 years, cell phones, and VOIP brought that on.
----- Original Message -----
From: Reginald George
To: Adaptive technology information and support.
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: [ATI] Stop internet censorship
The phone companies have managed to give us free unlimited land lines for
local calls for 50 years or more, and never caved to a European model. The
people can have a voice if they vote with their dollars and leave companies
that want to cap our band width for those like Google who are willing and able
to build out their infrastructure to carry the load instead. It’s the free
market buddy, working as it should. That’s why these 2 bills in congress right
now, pipa and fifa, are bad, and why we need to continue to legislate for true
net neutrality with free speech protections and some protections against
unreasonable prosecution.
From: Jennifer Palmer
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 10:17 PM
To: Adaptive technology information and support.
Subject: Re: [ATI] Stop internet censorship
I didn't want the a t and t deal to go through because its majorly
expensive. furthermore, that would leave only three cell providers
and one gsm provider.
they would then buy sprent probably.
leaving two and making a mobile provider monopoly pretty much.
bandwidth shouldn't be as much of an issue as it is. and network busy that
should not of happened.
----- Original Message -----
From: Dewey Bradley
To: Nancy Lynn ; Adaptive technology information and support.
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: [ATI] Stop internet censorship
This has 2 sides too it, some people take all the bandwith, the government
needs to stay out of the free market, for example, they interfered with the
AT&T T-mobile deel, T-mobile is for sale, and AT&T has the cash, and needs it
to meet the needs of its customers, but everyone's beloved king Obama is
against the free market, the very thing that made this country what it used to
be.
People go on websights and download porn and watch movies, mean while
businesses can't run, because they can't get on line, because people are useing
all the bandwith, that is why they are putting caps on the data.
If you had a business, how would you feel if the government came in and
told you how to run it, would you like it?
of course not.
That is European style socialism, but I don't expect most blind people to
understand that, because that is what they want.
I needed to call 911 on my cell phone one time, but it said "network busy"
Because you have kids playing on the dam internet and blocking everyone
else.
----- Original Message -----
From: Nancy Lynn
To: ACB List ; Adaptive technology information and support. ; CCB List ;
Chat Moblind ; Missouri List
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 8:25 PM
Subject: [ATI] Stop internet censorship
Dear Friend,
The Senate is poised to vote on a bill that would end the internet as we
know it.
If it passes, the "Protect IP Act" (and its companion bill in the House,
"SOPA") could put people in jail for uploading a video to YouTube and would
severely limit our right to free speech.
This bill has been rushed through Congress because big corporate
interests like Comcast, Pfizer, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have spent
millions of dollars lobbying for this censoring legislation.
I told my senators to protect our free and open internet and oppose the
Protect IP Act. You should do the same. You can sign the petition at the link
below.
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/internet_censorship/?r_by=-4976661-QS%3D3r5x&rc=paste1
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