Originally Posted by MontanaMan

And now they can & will tax it & control it at will, simply by doing what they do..........
Can you show me in the 1934 Communications act where they can tax it. Or is that just the rumor you hear?

Originally Posted by MontanaMan
Take a look at your phone bill & see how much tax you pay as a ratio of the cost for the actual service.......it's completely disgusting.
Do you really think you're not paying taxes on your internet content today?

Originally Posted by MontanaMan
And the govt control brings absolutely NOTHING, NOTHING to the value of the service.
So you'd just give the internet over to big ISP's who could then be given the ability to legally commit anti-trust, and arbitrarily decide who can have high speed and who couldn't. Or who couldn't be on the internet altogether? Because that's the alternative, that's the only alternative unless someone wants to talk about some other law.

And it's not government control, it's just regulatory rules. Rules that say you can't degrade someone's bandwidth if they're a competitor. You can't block content because it's competition.

It's now open to everyone on an even basis, just like radio and television.