Wow, I can't even begin to tell you how stupid that post was. It was as though you were attempting to use words to commit a hate crime on intelligence. Pay or get out of the way? I'm already paying, and so are ALL e-businesses! That's what bandwidth bills are, you are paying for everything they offer, absolutely everything, there is no free ride here. What the GOP is proposing (at the behest of the corporation that have had the corrupt party in their pocket for a long, long time) is that sites be required to pay huge fees to regional monopolies in order to keep the speed they have right now, and those who don't pay (sites like Wikipedia, every independent blog on the face of the earth, internet business upstarts that could have been the next amazon or google if only they had the bandwidth to be attractive to consumers) will have their speed crippled or, more than likely, will have their sites blocked entirely. The GOP wants a slower, more expensive internet service that is more difficult to use both for business and at home, they want to kill the independent "future of the media" that has been exposing the crap lines they feed to people day in and day out, they want to bring an end to the information age and basically put America into a position where it simply can't compete with many other nations both economically (a UK based website that pays no such fees will offer cheaper service and make more profit, for instance) and technologically (as the increased price of broadband adoption will slow the rate at which American's get high speed internet access, just a few short years after the government was pushing for a fiber optic line to every door). It's sad that you can't get over your party long enough to see that they're bending the average American over here, and that they have the best interests of telecom company's and not the citizens that put them into office here.
To put it simply, you pay your ISP a charge for bandwidth, for the fastest download/upload speed that your speed tiers servers can support, regardless of content. That is what you are paying for. If the Telecoms and their republican lackey's have their way, you will be paying for that service, and then paying an additional fee to ensure that you get the service that you just paid for. It'd be like going to walmart, buying a shirt, and then having the cashier hold your product hostage and tell you that she's decided she deserves and extra ten bucks before you can get what you just paid for, the whole thing is just absolutely ridiculous. Only the most fanatically blind conservative fool could muster any support for something like this. The future of the media? Fox News. Outright propaganda, lies, spin, nothing new, because a bunch of idiots who got elected based on their dislike of boys kissing were allowed to blatantly harm the people they are supposed to represent on the orders of their corporation campaign funder of choice. There's your "future of the media", same crap as we have right now, but without the independent voices on the internet.
