The "Government Media Complex" ...

[NightHawkeye]

... has an alternative according to Ron Paul: Ron Paul: Internet is the alternative to ‘government media complex’ that controls the news | WashingtonExaminer.com

During part one of his farewell speech to Congress, Rep. Ron Paul insisted that the internet remain free, as it is an important alternative to the “government media complex.”

 

[DollIsMine]

Free internet?? but that's socialism Ron!

 

[Jeffwhosoever]

I have come to the sad conclusion that there is no objective media source remaining in the United States. Listening to US news today reminds me of Radio Havana Cuba and Radio Pyongyang from SW radio in the late 1970s. Maybe I need to get an AM modulator, HF transmitter, and an antenna array, and start Radio Free America.

 

[Marek]

Unfortunately, most of the people that watch Fox News all day probably visit sites like FoxNews.com, Townhall.com, RedState.com, etc., when they're online. Likewise for liberal counterparts. If people only want confirmation for what they already believe, they can easily find that to the exclusion of other points of view. We need to keep the internet free (thankfully, the first amendment guarantees that), but more importantly, we need to encourage everyone to constantly challenge their own beliefs, otherwise no amount of free information will do any good.

 

[Jeffwhosoever]

Unfortunately, most of the people that watch Fox News all day probably visit sites like FoxNews.com, Townhall.com, RedState.com, etc., when they're online. Likewise for liberal counterparts. If people only want confirmation for what they already believe, they can easily find that to the exclusion of other points of view. We need to keep the internet free (thankfully, the first amendment guarantees that), but more importantly, we need to encourage everyone to constantly challenge their own beliefs, otherwise no amount of free information will do any good.

LOL. GOOGLE NEWS

 

[Marek]

LOL. GOOGLE NEWS

 

[TerranceL]

Free internet?? but that's socialism Ron!

You couldn't have missed the point harder if it had been on the other side of the planet.

 

[TerranceL]

LOL. GOOGLE NEWS

https://news.google.com/

Pretty much!

 

[DollIsMine]

You couldn't have missed the point harder if it had been on the other side of the planet.

It is not I who has missed the point, Terrance-san.

 

[TerranceL]

It is not I who has missed the point, Terrance-san.

Considering you appear to believe that he was referring to nopay internet... yes... you missed the point.

 

[DollIsMine]

Considering you appear to believe that he was referring to nopay internet... yes... you missed the point.

Sometimes when people say things they mean a different thing than what the words literally mean.

 

[NightHawkeye]

Sometimes when people say things they mean a different thing than what the words literally mean.

The question becomes whether you were attempting to talk to people here or were you trying to talk above people here?

Just curious ...

 

[DollIsMine]

The question becomes whether you were attempting to talk to people here or were you trying to talk above people here?

Just curious ...

I was making a joke. Though there are some pretty significant obstacles to ensuring a free internet that Ron Paul's policies are incapable of addressing.

 

[NightHawkeye]

I was making a joke.

Hi, DollIsMine.

Fair enough. Just don't forget that for the humor-impaired, a winky smiley face is sometimes useful.

 

[Nabobalis]

Time to make net neutrality a law.

 

[DollIsMine]

Time to make net neutrality a law.

Uh oh sounds like more Big Government telling people what to do. I mean who is the government to tell internet companies what they can and cannot censor on their own network? If Google wants to suppress certain news items in certain areas in exchange for money well we just have to let the marketplace deal with that, can't go stomping on corporate rights so tyrannically just for the sake of the individual's freedom.

 

[NightHawkeye]

Time to make net neutrality a law.

"Net neutrality" is internet censorship disguised as non-censorship. Just weird ...

"Net neutrality" is one fine example of how topsy-turvey the world has become.

 

[Nabobalis]

"Net neutrality" is internet censorship disguised as non-censorship. Just weird ...

"Net neutrality" is one fine example of how topsy-turvey the world has become.

Net neutrality ensures that ISPs can't favour or disfavour websites. There is not censorship.

 

[NightHawkeye]

Net neutrality ensures that ISPs can't favour or disfavour websites. There is not censorship.

It is government control of ISP content ...

... in oh so many ways.

 

[Nabobalis]

It is government control of ISP content ...

... in oh so many ways.

It mandates that an ISP can not limit access to websites. I didn't know that unrestricted access to websites was censorship.