Keep Your Hands Off My Internet! The Obama Administration has zealously campaigned for equal Internet access for all Americans, especially in areas of both rural America and in underserved U.S. cities. The FCC wants to regulate Internet and Broadband industries i.e. proposing that internet providers could not limit a consumers access to websites. Then there's the issue of Net Neutrality : the consumer's right to use any equipment, content, application or service without interference from the network provider. Under FCC regulation, the freedom of Internet speech as we know it, could be drastically altered. People are divided on the issue. Some say there is too much "freedom" on the Internet. Since the Internet invasion, there have been more hate crime web sites, white supremacist sites, and porn sites than ever before. Perhaps there needs to be regulation there. But people like James Valvo, Direct...
Covering Washington politics. From Our vantage point. One point at a time.