02 May 2008 @ 01:43 pm
Conservatives should EMBRACE Network Neutrality!  
The Constitution is not reviled by Conservatives, and it is the regulation that defines the very structure and limits (regulates) the power of government over a people.

There is nothing more conservative than the notion that "I should be left alone."  Don't unfairly tax me, don't over regulate me, don't spy on me, just leave me alone.

Conservatives, ask yourselves:  What is it that the American people -- the millions of us law-abiding folk that log on every day -- are asking for when we ask for network neutrality?

They say:
 - Don't give me less service than I pay for,
 - Don't regulate my choices of activies,
 - Don't spy on my activities,
 - Just leave me alone.

Why is that asking too much?  How does that stifle innovation?  It doesn't.  It's the CONSERVATIVE position that has made our Constitution the document that protects the weaker from the stronger, and it's made our country both diverse and great. 

The principle of Network Neutrality has made the Internet great because it does the same thing.  It limits how those with unlimited power can affect the network.  Net Neutrality was there from its design.  It -is already- the expressed U.S. Policy.  It's time to give it the power of law.

Robb Topolski