Verizon trying to censor internet

[antipickle]

Verizon is trying to sue the US Government to end net neutrality and the open internet order. V believes that it should be able to edit the internet for it's customers. As an internet provider, it should have editorial rights, similar to a newspaper, over the internet it provides. And the Government is violating it's free speech not allowing it to do so.

Broadband providers transmit their own speech both by developing their own content and by partnering with other content providers and adopting that speech as their own. For example, they develop video services, which draw information from, and are then made available over, the Internet. Many also select or create content for their own over-the-top video services or offer applications that provide access to particular content. They also transmit the speech of others: each day millions of individuals use the Internet to promote their own opinions and ideas and to explore those of others, and broadband providers convey those communications.

In performing these functions, broadband providers possess

 

[AntimonyER]

Yeah, I think the general consensus based on what I have read, is that Verizon is smoking something, and no way this flies anywhere.

 

[qetuop]

Yeah, I think the general consensus based on what I have read, is that Verizon is smoking something, and no way this flies anywhere.

They're smoking hundred dollar bills from the big pile of cash they make from the thousands of new customers they keep signing up.

 

[bigbadwulff]

And you think Google and You Tube haven't done the same?

 

[ImgBurn]

What's wrong with us that we allow these gangsters to get away with this.
There is no spoon.






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