It is time to stop Feudalism in our current times.

Where is the Feudalism you say? Just look around.

We have Microsoft: Apple is hardly a contender. It is a full up Monopoly and other corporations bow down to them, see DELL for an example. Other smaller corporations are simply swept away with corporate combat. To call this acquisition. if that wont work then men at arms from the legal division are called in to do battle. When our cash is gone you roll over dead.

Another example is Adobe. There system of conquest is based on the shareware model. They give away the watered down PDF reader. so that the people that buy in to the shareware can publish. Just today I was sent a email to a sight that was to give me a sample voting ballot. But unless you sell out to the shareware you can't read the PDF. Why is the goverment promoting a Monopoly that is based in shareware. When there are tools like Open Office that would do the job.

Just look, TV is another Feudal system. Run by local Nobles, the cable providers, who bow down to the likes of Time Warner.

Your ISP is another, the Lords here are playing games with us with price setting as they battle running pipes down the right of way.

Cell phones are complete thieves. They steal the air waves that the FCC should have never been given the right to sell our data space. Don't let them tell you there is not the bandwidth. Just look at 4G. There is the bandwidth. If the FCC defined the correct type of radio routers we could have free 4G. And the local Internet pipes would not be needed. With personal 4G, local Internet service providers would not have to compete running wire down the street. We would just take a few hops across the roof tops to the local Interstate, where fast Internet pipes would be ( are ) available for many ISP's to compete.

Death blow dealt by the courts.This could be the end of the Internet as we know it. Will we put up with Dictator control of the Internet?

Court: FCC has no power to regulate Net neutrality

6 April 2010 cnet.com: The Federal Communications Commission does not have the legal authority to impose strict Net neutrality regulations on Internet providers, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

A three-judge panel in Washington, D.C. unanimously tossed out the FCC's August 2008 cease and desist order against Comcast, which had taken measures to slow BitTorrent transfers and had voluntarily ended them earlier in the year.

If the FCC can not regulate Net neutrality there will be no Net. Just yet another consumer money pit. This is Yet another blow to to the modern printing press. And we now have controlled access to the town square. And thus a more limited freedom of speech.

Last word It is about time the FCC did what it does best regulate the air waves. We need radio bandwidth for roof top routers and by pass the Dictator ship that controls Internet access. Only then We get free cell phone time, not the hardware. and access to more then 1 or 2 Internet providers. Since the right of way to lay the last mile of cable will no longer be needed.

Oh My, could it be the FCC got it right?

"This is a pivotal moment," said Ben Scott, director of policy at the public interest group Free Press. The government wants to treat broadband Internet as a national infrastructure, he said, like phone lines or the broadcast spectrum. But federal regulators are grappling with older policies that do not clearly protect consumers' access to the Web, their privacy or prices of service. from the washingtonpost.com

The FCC, which regulates public access to telephone and television services, has been working to claim the same role for the Internet. The stakes are high, as the Obama administration pushes an agenda of open broadband access for all and big corporations work to protect their enormous investments in a new and powerful medium. same source.

The article go on about the federal appeals court grilling the FCC lawyer about its possibly acting out side of its authority.

I can only hope that this goes to a place where the judges understand the intent of the Constitution and the intent of the freedom speech issues. I can't say the bill of rights covers privately owned copper and glass. The the airwaves are the property of the people and should not be sold to the highest bidder. The last mile access to the Internet should not be owned like it was glass and copper.

If we are given our, I say, constitutional right to bandwidth to put a router on our roof and thus giving the last mile access to the people. and not money grubbing big corporations. We will find that there will all of a sudden be many broadband providers, not the one or perhaps two we have become use to. Having real competition will allow capitalisation to function properly. And local cell phone traffic will only be the cost of the hardware.

How often do you travel to places where there are no roof tops. Places there there are no roof tops for miles is where you might have local calling access problems. Not putting a router on your roof will be less common then people that have no phones. local cell phone costs should not be per packet or per minute rather the cost should only cost of the hardware and power to run that hardware.

You see the Internet was first designed as a fail safe system that can self correct when a roof top radio drops off the grid. The Internet was also originally based on a radio network. And we are so familiar with the low power WiFi that the Old FCC limited us to. now add power and take back the public broadcast spectrum and we can change the world for the better.

I am not saying to take away the land lines. for those that want them. I am simply saying we don't need to pad the pockets of fat corporations with local phone and text last mile of the Internet.

If anything comes of this, and I am sceptical, it may be the first positive thing that this administration can do to make the USA a better place.