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From Open secrets.org on Facebook : "The Federal Communications Commission has voted in favor of classifying the internet as a public utility, a move seen as a step towards ensuring net neutrality. However, the debate over the government's treatment of the internet is far from over. Money-in-politics reporter Russ Choma lays out the influence profile of four of the biggest opponents to net neutrality using their campaign contributions and lobbying numbers. What do you think?"  Someone said in the reply "The greater good"  I replied this "To me, when you use the greater good as an argument it is a cop out.. But to me, and I used the same argument of the greater good when voting for Obama in the last election.. I saw him as the better of the two we had as a choice.. Better not BEST.. Better because he was more set in what he had been saying.. Mitt was just flipping from the insane bullshit rhetoric that he had been spewing from the year before until August when he was confirmed as the GOP representative to the election.. I kept seeing the republican commercials and they were saying the same thing as Obama had been saying since... since the 2008 election.. So I voted.. In a state where if you don't vote republican your vote doesn't really count.. Some states are that way.. In Nebraska we want our country to run like it did in the early fifties.. That just isn't going to happen..  Ronald Reagan tried to set the country into a fail mode which very nearly happened.. In between Reagan and Obama were presidents that could have reversed direction but decided not to rock the boat.. Sadly we could have been better off if the policies of president Carter had been locked into place.. I realize everyone says what a crappy president he was but he refused to deregulate wallstreet and because Reagan did that, we had the worst banking crisis ever.. What does this have to do with the internet neutrality??  Truth is everything.. Had there been a republican in the fifth seat rather than a democrat we would be talking completely differently about the net neutrality today.. Truth is if there was a way to have a super fast lane on the internet and a lane where what we have today were the normal I would say let them have it that way.. But you know those who can afford super high speed internet would take the ball and run with it.. those who can't afford to have super fast internet would be stuck with slightly faster than dial up internet, which is what I have here.. The definition of broadband high speed internet is supposedly 25Mbps.. We have never had that here in our podunk town.. But maybe we will.. Highly doubtful.. Was I for or against the net neutrality??  I was for it but my feeling is having the internet classified as utility might in fact be the step in the wrong direction.. I'm not sure, i guess we'll see.. There's always a first time for everything and what I mean by that is maybe this will be one of those rare times when the government might get it right. They might do the right thing, the FCC being the government arm that might do it right.. Hopefully.. There's always a first time for everything.. Keep your fingers crossed, it will get bumpy..

Badge Henry