White House Out of Control on Net Neutrality

Have you heard that opposing government regulation is now akin to supporting censorship?? Does this make sense to anyone else?

It apparently does to White House Deputy Technology Office Andrew McLaughlin.? This week McLaughlin compared opposing government mandated control over Internet content delivery the same thing as China censoring the Internet.? He continued,

?If it bothers you that the China government does it, it should bother you when your cable company does it,? McLaughlin said.

When we are talking about Net Neutrality, we are clearly no longer talking about the same thing as the liberals in the White House.

Look, there is simply no evidence that ISP’s want to block content.? In fact they would be nuts to do so.? Additionally, there is no evidence that the government will not block or censor content either.? What people need to begin to realize is that for the FCC to implement their recently proposed NPRM, they will at some level have to monitor traffic.? There is no clear detail how they will be doing this or if they will be monitoring at the content level.

McLaughlin makes the comparison of the ability of ISP’s to block content to China’s censoring knowing full well that the government could soon have the same ability.? The double standard is brilliant, and the ploy convincing to those who aren’t familiar with the heart of the issue.? Compare anti-neutrality sentiment to a country that strictly limits freedom of speech online and quickly bring in the sheep.

If you want to seek out actual information on the issue, read all sides, that’s fine.? Then make a decision that is best for you and your house.? But while you’re at it look up the contributions from Google, Amazon, Yahoo, and Ebay to the Obama campaign compared to the McCain campaign, and know that you should take anything coming out of the White House on this issue with a grain of salt.? It’s a big fat payback for monies paid in advance.