Rush Limbaugh really is an idiot!

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A Fairness Doctrine for Internet?

CALLER: USA Today, the 16th, front page, small story, it seems insignificant. The FCC wants more fast lanes to Internet. They basically hit you with a bunch of numbers, blah, blah, blah, by the time you get through it. But when you read through it and you see what the plan -- actually what they want to do, today they're voting on Congress, is to have a sweeping plan, the federal regulators have unveiled an ambitious plan to bring high speed Internet service to millions of people. Here's their promises, promises, and they go on to say about a nationalized system. Jump way to the bottom of the story, the FCC, the White House or Congress would have to implement the plan, some of which would be controversial, or another way of saying unconstitutional. If you jump around in this story, Rush, it's a takeover of another industry by "helping us." And what industry is it? The cable, communications. The FCC, which is the government, wants to take over another industry.

RUSH: Well, it's actually much more hideous than this. This story that you're quoting is just talking about the spectrum, the frequency spectrum, and they want more broadband spectrum for higher speed access for everybody that uses the Internet. In getting this, one of the areas they're looking at is asking over-the-air television stations to stop broadcasting over the air since it's all cable or satellite now and they want to take that spectrum and apply it to Internet. Now, you can say that they want to take over the Internet, but they already have. I mean they regulate all broadcasting. They don't regulate cable or satellite but they regular over the air broadcasting, like radio. You have to go through, every five or ten years, whatever it is now, for license renewal, community ascertain, you have to run out and talk to librarians, a bunch of people, ask them what their big issues in the community are, okay, document that, send it in with your license renewal, they say you're paying attention to local issues, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

What's coming way beyond this, what's coming in the fall is the deceptively named net neutrality. The easiest way to understand this is to think of a Fairness Doctrine for the Internet. Now, how would this work? Let's say that you want to go Google or Bing, you want to search the mating habits of the Australian rabbit bat. Net neutrality would require that every search engine produce an equal number of results that satisfy every disagreement about the issue. Yep. And that's going to happen. That pretty much is going to happen. And the White House is in bed with Google. The White House and Google are bedmates, Google, largest search engine. Already, if you do a search of me on Google and you look at the crap that comes up, it's by design and on purpose. It's literal crap, I mean the most obscure places you never knew existed with comments about what happened on this program every day. It took a long time, but we had to really work hard at getting our website to pop up in a search of Google, our own website.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_031610/content/01125111.guest.html

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This.

 

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[Wheezer]

#1 P&N

#2 damn near everything the government touches turns to shit, and this would be no different. You give the government control like that, any government and it is bound to be a cluster fuck.

I fail to see how Rush is wrong here.

 

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the FuCC will make a mess of it. net neutrality is not.

 

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I fail to see how Rush is wrong here.

While Net Nuetrality IS retarded, Rush isnt doing the opposition any favors by being completely uninformed about what it actually is:

Net neutrality would require that every search engine produce an equal number of results that satisfy every disagreement about the issue.

ya he's way off the mark here.

 

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#1 P&N

#2 damn near everything the government touches turns to shit, and this would be no different. You give the government control like that, any government and it is bound to be a cluster fuck.

I fail to see how Rush is wrong here.

Because what he is stating is net neutrality, is not net neutrality.

Net neutrality means the ISP has no rights to monitor or discriminate the data that comes in or goes out of your computer. IE they can't say "Oh, he's going to google, lets slow that transfer down." Or "Oh, he's downloading a movie, lets limit his bandwidth here."

I found the google stuff particularly funny. Google has an algorithm for which webpage comes to the top, I highly doubt they have modified it so Anti-rush stuff comes on top all the time. That's just paranoia.

 

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While Net Nuetrality IS retarded, Rush isnt doing the opposition any favors by being completely uninformed about what it actually is:



ya he's way off the mark here.

Yeah sorry I thought the uber nerds would think it was a funny statement by Rush, didn't realize people would take it as a political post.