Senator John McCain, bitter over his defeat in the most recent election, has decided to seek out vengeance by destroying the Internet as we know it with his hilariously titled "Internet Freedom Act."
Verizon, Comcast, AT&T and other companies would like to see the Internet transformed from its current level playing field into a "tiered-system" where services offered by those companies would be in the highest tier, alongside other companies that directly pay them fees to be included in the "prime results group." Sites like Facebook, YouTube and Hulu would be required to pay one of the above companies to prevent from having their bandwidth limited so that they would not be able to function. Those costs would certainly be passed along to the end user in a package like this:
This is all coming about because one of President Barack Obama's goals was to protect net neutrality and last week, the FCC voted unanimously to begin crafting rules to enforce net neutrality. McCain has enjoyed quite a cozy relationship with the telecommunications companies, but I'm sure his "principled stance" has nothing to do with their frequent donations to his campaigns, or with the installation of wireless towers by both AT&T AND Verizon on his expansive ranch. Also entirely coincidental is the fact that he has been the number one recipient of donations from telecommunications companies over the last two years.
Rachel Maddow talked about the damage that McCain's legislation would do on one of her show's last week:
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Perhaps it's not the best course of action to put our trust into a guy, when asked whether he prefers PC or Macs, responds "Neither, am an illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get."
John McCain's "Internet Freedom Act" is most certainly double plus ungood.
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