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     Net Neutrality is an example of how asking for regulation means lose of freedom. Companies like Google, Amazon.com, and Facebook are being accused of not paying the cable and phone companies, like AT&T and Verizon. AT&T and Verizon are not charging Google, Amazon.com, and Facebook. If AT&T and Verizon are not charging anybody for visiting web sites that are not owned by the phone and cable companies, than the logical thing to do is to slow or discriminate service. Well these web sites that are not owned by the cable and phone companies are not liking the idea of capitalism, so they are going to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC, which has a board of 3 Democrats and 2 Republicans voted Yesterday to proceed in creating Net Neutrality rules. What the end result of Net Neutrality is that people are going to be charged for visiting web sites to cover the regulatory costs.

     Let me explain how this would affect you and me. I visit the Drudge Report, on a daily basis. Matt Drudge is a person who inspires me to create my own blog and hopefully other future endeavors on the Internet. He doesn’t charge the visitors of his web site to read his links to stories. Matt gets his revenues from other web sites that are advertising on his site. He sees his Drudge Report similar to how newspapers run their business except charging the reader for visiting his web site. It was something that I enjoyed ever since I had access to the Internet.

     Now if Net Neutrality gets passed, the phone and cable companies could ask the FCC to enforce charging of services. If you want the Internet to be open to all web sites, the phone and cable companies got to find a way to provide service to every web site that in turn will mean the consumer would have to pay for going to a different web site not affiliated with the Internet Service Provider. This in turn means for me that I would have to pay for going on to the Drudge Report, because of these FCC regulations, not because Drudge decided to charge people for the information that he finds. This in turn will keep people from going to different web sites outside of the Internet Service Provider. Which means you can only get your news without paying by going on to the ISPs news section, which is the Associated Propagandists.

    Net Neutrality would benefit the old Media (AP, New York Times, NBC News), search engines similar to Google, Social Networking sites, and co-op Media. It would benefit Google and other search engines, because they would profit from each visit to a non-ISP owned web site. It benefits co-op Media, because the news reader would go to co-op media sources more than paying for Drudge Report, Newsmax, and the Huffington Post web sites. Finally the Social Networking sites would benefit from net neutrality, by profiting for people connecting with friends and family. It would make the consumer choose what web sites to purchase and which web sites not to purchase or just simply not surf the web as much as people are doing now. This is the elites attempt to get back their ability to set the political agenda. This is the search engines and social networking sites desire to make more money, while handicapping the phone and cable industry. Free-market enterprise is about not going to the Federal Government that one industry how to run a business unless it involves basic human need. Ratting out other industries’ business practice is how loss of freedom occurs.

    I will blog about the basic human needs by Tuesday. Until than if you would like, feel free to comment my blog, and also subscribe to my blog.