All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. - H.L. Mencken
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Right wing extremist opposes Net Neutrality
US IDEALOGUE David Barton has come out against Net Neutrality with both testaments blazing.
Barton, a self-taught 'historian' with a fanbase that includes Fox News rabble-rouser Glenn Beck and the extremist Tea Party fringe of the US Republican party, offered his views on the Net Neutrality debate during a radio interview reported on the Rightwingnews website.
The contents of that interview should serve as a reminder to never talk about something you know nothing about, lest ye maketh thyself look like an ass.
"We talk about [Net Neutrality] today because it is a principle of free market. That's a Biblical principle, that's a historical principle, we have all these quotes from Ben Franklin, and Jefferson and Washington and others on free market and how important that is to maintain. That is part of the reason we have prosperity," said Barton in an interview with radio host Rick Green.
"This is what the Pilgrims brought in, the Puritans brought in, this is free market mentality. Net Neutrality sounds really good, but it is socialism on the Internet."
Whether the Bible and the US founding fathers warned against Net Neutrality we can't say, but it's easy to grab that sort of statement out of the air, say it in a loud stern voice and make it sound convincing.
"This is the Fairness Doctrine applied to the Internet, and I'll go back to what I believed for a long time is: fair is a word no Christian should ever use in their vocabulary. Fair has nothing to do with anything," he continued.
"What you want is justice, you don't want fairness. Fairness is subjective, what I think is fair, what you think, what happened to Jesus wasn't fair. That's right, but we needed justice so God did that for us... This is really, I'm going to use the word wicked stuff, and I don't use that word very often, but this is wicked stuff."
It's hard to believe perhaps that such a man does not use the word 'wicked' very much, but even harder to fathom are his arguments, which hark back to Depression era demagogues with megaphones whipping up ignorant mobs wearing bedsheets. We've heard of muddying the water, but this is more mud than water.
"I mean, if Skype uses eighty-five percent of the server space, you can't charge them eighty-five percent of the fees because that would be unfair. And if Skype says 'well, we don't want to pay that,' and you say 'well, you're off our server,' no you can't do that. You can't kick them off just because they won't pay," he added.
He railed, "I mean, this is crazy stuff. This is redistribution of wealth through the Internet and it really is redistribution. This is socialism on the Internet." µ
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And what I do with it is nobody elses business unless I am doing something illegal.
Granted streaming protocols take more bandwidth but if I ever come up short I take it up with the ISP and let them work it out, but don't tell me what I can and can't do with the bandwidth I pay dearly for each month.
Net nutrality, don't know much about it, but the author is retarded. I know very left politicans are for it, the FCC is run by a very left guy who is for it. the right are against it. I think there is more in net nutrality than meets the eye.
One commenter said the teabaggers (Which means that he thinks that the tea party are into gay sex) are just like John Birchers. Had to look it up as I am not that old. Not the same, gay-sex-thinker, Birchers were consipiratorialists, and no more racist than the Democratic party at the time.
It would be funny if you banned my comment over the "gay sex" but allowed the word teabaggers, he he.
...Leviticus.
Anyone that takes the Bible too seriously has some serious explaining to do.
As in: Disrespect your elders = death.
The Tea Party movement here in the USA aren't bible thumpers at all. We have a couple of simple messages to politicians:
1.) We are Taxed Enough Already
2.) You work for us
Nothing far right extreme at all. My advice for the author is that he should do some research next time before bashing a group/
I'm not so convinced that the Bible was all that hot on the free market.
BTW, doesn't calling anybody who ever disagrees with you a "commie" sound really dated these days, what with the collapse of the Soviet Union, end of the Cold War, historical defeat of Communism etc? Y'all sound like a bunch of relics from the '50s.
Good story, thanks!
Hitler got 30% of the votes before he took over the government. He got the votes from people who kept saying it won't be that bad. It won't be any different with the Tea Reichsparty.
Headline: Retarded Brit self-righteous know it all whines about what he doesn't agree with and doesn't understand
Ignorance is bliss I guess.
Some of these posts "FOX news is radical" and such makes me laugh at your ignorance.
Keep saying that to yourselves as your pathetic over taxed socialist country slips closer and closer to sharia law.
Well said if your a commie loving liberal, you should join Obama's never ending crusade for hope and change, fool.
David Barton is smarter than you could ever hope to be. If have ever listened to him and and seen the work he has done then any educated person would see that it is nothing short of miraculous.
Davis Barton is also on the board of educators that decides what textbooks are read in schools throughout this country. That esteemed position is not just given to some "right wing extremist".
Nutters, the bunch of them. Anyone who considers themselves left or right need some perspective somewhere in the middle. Extremism in any way shape or form is bad for everyone.
I have to say I generally love American People as in the ordinary folk (and I haven't met all of them)
However, there seems to be a tremendous amount of assholes who get access to public media through shit channels like Fox News et al., and all bought-out by vested interests, that spew the most heinous crap I ever heard of!
Do ordinary people really understand or, worse still, believe this idiot?
Will we ever keep money and politics separate?
Oh man, I'm going to bed....
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pretty extreme language for a net neutral
person
I've read it. Barton's "history" is as factual as Grimm's Fairy Tales, and much less entertaining.
Back in the 50s and 60s we had Teabaggers, but we called them The John Birch Society. It doesn't matter what you call them, they are racists, ignoramuses, and gullible fools, much like "David" here. These are the type of people who enabled Hitler's overthrow of the legitimate democratic government of Germany, the Weimar Republic, in the early 30s These are the people who will do everything they know how to do (which, honestly, isn't much, but a multitude of idiots can cause tremendous harm) to overthrow what's left of democracy in the USA, and replace it with a religious dictatorship.
I despair for the future of my nation.
The biggest threat to the internet at this point is the US right wing. Somehow the've made this their cause, even though they have no idea what ther're talking about and actively working against what they want to achieve.
Either big content companies have bought enough politicians to confuse the poor right wingers out there OR it's just another case of arguing against whatever the other side says, even if you agree
Really is a shame, we waste so much effort in trying
If customers wants Skype then that's what they pay for - raise the connection prices. I'm willing to pay more from my net connection, but I don't want this Judas betray me and my Jesus, especially not in Easter time.
Just a twat, a quick search will yield that he is known (hah!) primarily for "not knowing" which organizations are nazi sympathizers and holocaust deniers before addressing them. He has also had calls for the death penalty for gay and lesbian people linked him. A real gentleman and scholar, I don't think so.
Does this "reporting" have objective neutrality to it? "Bible basher" who calls himself a 'historian'? More like a left wing hit piece than actual news. Ever read or heard any of David Barton's material? Documented factual history, all of it.