The bill, co-sponsored by Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Tom Carper (D-Del.) would make the Department of Homeland Security responsible for protecting civilian networks in the government and private sector. Now the key part of this sentence is “Department of Homeland Security responsible for protecting civilian networks in the government and private sector” honestly this bill puts the government in charge of private networks, oh this should end good. When we realize that nothing Washington D.C. does is for us, they only want power and lucky for them we just sit back and say here ya go. Read all about it here.

Looks like Orwell was just off by a few years.

Honestly could this be any more sinister. Somehow we as citizens must make sure this evil treaty never gets signed. It’s one thing to want to protect your intellectual property but it’s another thing to destroy every thing the United States and other like minded countries have fought long and hard for.  Are we willing to let our freedoms be dictated to us by the media industry. I for one am not, we must do what ever we can to expose this scandalous treaty and according to the United States Constitution illegal treaty.

Again from Jason Mick - ” The treaty and the recent information on how the U.S. fought to keep it secret raises alarming questions about politicians at the highest level on both sides of the political aisle.  Why would our nation’s leaders plot and champion a treaty that would raise citizens’ taxes in order to violate their constitutional rights, as a favor for major corporations?  And more importantly, why would these leaders fight to keep the treaty secret, when transparency and public participation form the foundation of our nation? “

If you want to educate yourself on this dastardly treaty the EFF ” Electronic Frontier Foundation ” has amassed a huge list of information on  the subject of he ACTA click here to read all about it. If you want to help shine some light on this secret and underhanded treaty go here and tell your elected officials what you think.

It’s sad to me to see something that has such great potential being picked downed to irrelevance. At one point it really looked like the Internet was going to level the playing field but that’s precisely why governments and big business are doing what they are doing. They won’t stop till the Internet is fully within their control.

Testing for me is over time to go back to Linux

The FCC is currently drafting up these so call net neutrality laws and like all things good intentioned if the government get’s involved they drop the ball or in this case open up huge loopholes that will let ISP’s legally do what the rules where suppose to stop in the first place.

As Richard Esguerra of the Electronic Frontier Foundation explains “Yet now that the FCC has formally issued draft net neutrality regulations, they have a huge copyright loophole in them — a loophole that would theoretically permit Comcast to block BitTorrent just like it did in 2007 — simply by claiming that it was “reasonable network management” intended to “prevent the unlawful transfer of content.” Please read more here.

Basically put ISP’s could still block “peer to peer” traffic just like they do now but thanks to Net Neutrality rules set forth by the government they now could do so legally and you would have no recourse no matter how legitimate your activities may be. Trust me the list of legal activities for peer to peer technologies is endless.

Let’s face facts the entertainment industry lobby has some deep pockets and have for years been trying to halt all types of illegal file sharing (well illegal in their eyes). However, the truth is no matter what anyone may think of this issue the movie industry had record profits last year and even had one movie make two billion world wide. They hardly have an argument that movie piracy is cutting into said profits. So why should our government help them turn ISP’s into copyright cops, a job the ISP don’t want and don’t want to have to pay for, a cost that will be passed down to the consumer, a cost these so called Net Neutrality laws are suppose to help curtail.

We need to let our ISP’s know what we want and how we want it by not giving them our money. We need to end the government controlled monopolies that let cable companies and telcos operate without competition, which my friends is the real root of the problem.

I have a different stance than many in the technological field and feel the net neutrality is a trap, yes ISP’s are evil and greedy. In America we pay to much for bandwidth, have way to many restrictions place on us, and have limited services. That being said I’d rather vote with my pocket book than let the government tell me or my ISP how, when, and where to surf.