Save the Internet!!!! - I had talked to several people in the past about this and residents aren't pleased neither. They were for what I was saying but nobody wanted to join up to discuss the topic with anybody. The dish has been regulated by the Comcast contract of the town w

**Member** Joined: Jun 12, 2007 Posts: 3128

http://savetheinternet.com/

There is a shift happening and the powers that be do not like it!

KEEP THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX!!!!!

DO NOT LET THEM GET CONTROL OF THE NET! SAVE NET NEUTRALITY! tHE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE NOW AWAKE AND ON FIRE! INTO ACTION FOLKS DO IT BIG...............STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS! THIS IS A FREEDOM DRIVE AND YOU CAN BE PROUD OF THAT!

JOIN THE RENAISSANCE!

Stopping Comcast's Attack on Net Neutrality
America's biggest cable company is throttling the free flow of information on the Internet.

Blocking by Comcast — and related censorship by AT&T and Verizon — gives us a glimpse of a world without Net Neutrality. We've filed a legal action against Comcast at the FCC.

Recruit Joined: Aug 08, 2007 Posts: 131

What would be nice to see would be alternative independent services for ISPs. Get internet out of the monopoly hands. I do envision a possible power-out of our current internet and the net should be backed up by somebody, somewhere, with what would be missed recontributed through the users on alternative internets.

Quite an undertaking giving the massiveness of the net. That's a lot of bytes.

Where I live you are not allowed to have dish internet or cable per contract of Comcast on the city level. In my apartment complex it is illegal to own a dish period.

Cable is expensive. On average costing at around $120.00 per month to it's subscribers. Comcast is a major monopoly with special interests throwing out the contracts to cities and in my case: selected areas of the city.

Recruit Joined: Sep 14, 2007 Posts: 140

"Where I live you are not allowed to have dish internet or cable per contract of Comcast on the city level. In my apartment complex it is illegal to own a dish period."

This is where you generally must bring out a class-action lawsuit or nothing will get fixed.

It will be legislated into the ground, but nothing will get done.

(come to think of it, this sounds like a case of revenue entitlement to me. The city council and mayor probably feel that they are entitled to your money and are enjoying the taxes and kickbacks from comcast. In simple words, they have the mindset that they are owed your money.)

Recruit Joined: Aug 08, 2007 Posts: 131

I had talked to several people in the past about this and residents aren't pleased neither. They were for what I was saying but nobody wanted to join up to discuss the topic with anybody. The dish has been regulated by the Comcast contract of the town which also sets the stage for certain apartment complexes to obey and apply the regulations.

In the past 20 or so years no average Citizen has ever bothered going to council meetings. Nobody bothers anymore because of all the town-politics and not much gets resolved.

The Mayor does get the fair share of kickbacks, as so do some of the town council members and elites. There is a separation of classes between the haves and have nots and not a lot of people think much of groups lower than them. As an example: we have a steady increase of homelessness in and near the downtown area. The attitude is that "People aren't deserving for handouts" When one of the apartment complexes where I live got flooded in the basement, no one really came to help. No news coverage neither. A week later a well-to-do person lost his 3.5 million dollar home and it was plastered everywhere and people donated to his cause.

When you are less than fortunate and ask for help it is called a handout, when you are very fortunate and ask for help it is called a charitable contribution.