Barack Obama Is Smart, Sexy and Pro Net Neutrality
This may seem silly to some of you, but not only do I live my life online but I make my living there too and Barack Obama may have seriously earned my backing in the primaries and the general election with this statement:
Affixing his signature to federal Net neutrality rules would be high on
the list during his first year in the Oval Office, the junior senator
from Illinois said during an interactive forum Monday afternoon with
the popular contender put on by MTV and MySpace at Coe College in
Iowa…He went on to explain the issue briefly: “What you’ve been seeing
is some lobbying that says that the servers and the various portals
through which you’re getting information over the Internet should be
able to be gatekeepers and to charge different rates to different Web
sites…so you could get much better quality from the Fox News site and
you’d be getting rotten service from the mom and pop sites,” he went
on. “And that I think destroys one of the best things about the
Internet–which is that there is this incredible equality there.”
I usually like to stay away from “serious” topics like politics on this site because, well, its called Hell Yeah Bitch!, but this is huge if Obama gets elected and follows through.
Via BoingBoing