Quote from: UnunoctiumTesticles on November 20, 2014, 04:12:14 AM

Quote from: RodeoX on November 19, 2014, 06:20:43 PM

I trust my government a million times more than I trust my ISP. That is the bottom line for me.

The point you are missing is that in a free market, you dont need to trust your ISP as competition will provide you with options.

What you dont believe or fail to understand is that regulatory capture of your government is precisely what stifles competition. This is what the quote from Eric S. Raymond about asymmetric power means.

So yes the monopolistic telcos are on their knees praying that you will trust the government more than the free market, because the more power you give to the government to regulate, the stronger their monopolies will become.

This has been proven over and over to always be the outcome in all of recorded human history. The mathematical reason was explained by Mancur Olsons book, The Logic of Collective Action.

I dont expect you to be able to wrap your mind around this, because the reason socialists are socialists is because they dont have the IQ to reason rationally at this high level.

And evolution is at work (over and over throughout recorded human history since Mesopotamia) to cull the population of the low IQ fools (via the war, eugenics, genocide, rationing, and totalitarian megadeath that results from peaking socialism when it runs out of other people's resources to steal, ahem redistribute) so the human race can get smarter and advance knowledge. So sorry for you, you havent been able to grasp how to survive.

Quote from: username18444 on November 20, 2014, 02:37:08 AM

As well,

Quote from: Dr. Richard Stallman, Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software link=https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html

When we call software free, we mean that it respects the users' essential freedoms: the freedom to run it, to study and change it, and to redistribute copies with or without changes. This is a matter of freedom, not price, so think of free speech, not free beer.

These freedoms are vitally important. They are essential, not just for the individual users' sake, but for society as a whole because they promote social solidaritythat is, sharing and cooperation. They become even more important as our culture and life activities are increasingly digitized. In a world of digital sounds, images, and words, free software becomes increasingly essential for freedom in general.

Tens of millions of people around the world now use free software; the public schools of some regions of India and Spain now teach all students to use the free GNU/Linux operating system. Most of these users, however, have never heard of the ethical reasons for which we developed this system and built the free software community, because nowadays this system and community are more often spoken of as open source, attributing them to a different philosophy in which these freedoms are hardly mentioned.

. . .

Eric S Raymond worked hard to move to the term open source instead of Richard Stallmans free software, because the latter is communism which is an abject failure.

The key difference between that Stallman and the FSF advocate the oxymoronic use of coercion (force) to maintain freedom (specifically the FSF GPL standard license forces some actions and limits other actions), thus it exhibits the loss of liberty that is the hallmark of Communism.

You can listen to Eric S. Raymond on this topic at the following video of a Java Users Group presentation where viral contamination means coercion in the GPL license:

http://jobtipsforgeeks.com/2012/05/17/lessons-from-a-jug-talk-with-eric-esr-raymond/

Quote from: Eric S. Raymond

...Nobody can take those freedoms away from us anymore; we have the internet. We have the way to migrate our software development out of the reach of any particular jurisdiction that goes idiotic. We have the code; they cant take the code away from us...

Jump to the 9:15 min point in the video.

I do NOT trust my ISP or that the capitalist system we have in America will do anything except sell me out. What your saying about the free market sounds good, but communism also sounds good on paper. I have never in my life seen so called "competition" among media providers lead to anything but higher prices and shitty service. That magic of the market stuff is BS unless you have a true free market. In which case you would need to have net-neutrality.