Major contributors to Jim Harper's Cato Institute ... Altria Corperate Services Inc. (formerly Phillip Morris), American Petroleum Institute (big oil), Comcast Corporation (big media), Microsoft (software monopoly), R.J. Reynolds (big tobacco), Visa (big banks), WalMart (big retail). In other words, it's a front for free-market, competition-crushing, corporate interests. Comcast Corp is behind most of the dissent when it comes to Net Neutrality. What Harper fails to mention is that the whole reason the FCC exists is because AT&T got so big in the early twentieth century, it allowed zero competition to flourish in the telecommunications market, which eventually led to an anti-trust lawsuit splitting the company seven ways. Today, monopoly is rearing its ugly head again, given the stranglehold that broadband providers like AT&T and Comcast have on both content and infrastructure. If you don't mind companies like these blocking access to cheap and innovative new applications like Skype, Vonage, or Google Voice, be my guest and lobby against Net Neutrality, but understand that you're only serving to stifle competition. By the way, the last time I checked, FCC chairman Genachowski is researching ways to free up more airwaves in the spectrum, not hoard them. Harper is full of hot air.

That's like telling a teenager "no." He'll just find a way around it. The trick is to program the algorithms to defer from certain sites in google searches, have it on page 100,000,556 and guard it with suggestive popup images to distract. Hey! That's what they do now. I'm for matching IP addresses with names, like telephone numbers, since they do it anyway in a sneaky way by embedding you into google then pretend like you're anonymous, so you'll state things that are a little braver than you are -- if you're even aware of the things you say or that people are using it against you (disorienting, especially if you have head problems already). Chances are if you aren't popular in real life, you aren't going to be popular on the web, so your opinions aren't anymore protected or valued, and you're leaving your bleeding body open for sharks. There was a reason you never talked, and it was dern good one. Nobody cares about you, and you shouldn't care that they don't care. Honestly, do you care what I think, Russia Today, or are you changing my opinions for the greater good of humanity and "right?" No offense. Anyway, for enough cash or skill, you can look up dirt on anyone. Other countries are protected, it seems, though they can see me, when I try to look them up, I cannot see them, seeing something like UK or Africa. I've never seen Russia, as the sites I see are tied into google and so look like USA. I understand that if you throw yourself in front of a bus, you're going to get hurt, as you have joined the ranks with the other Darwin Awards, but could the driver honk the slow sheep at least?