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The Right's War On Net Neutrality 945

jamie writes "To understand the debate being waged in the United States over Net Neutrality, it's important to understand just how drastically one side has been misled. The leaders of the American Right are spreading the lie that Net Neutrality is a government takeover of the internet, with the intention of silencing conservative voices. (Limbaugh: "All you really have to know about Net Neutrality is that its biggest promoters are George Soros and Google.") This may be hard to believe to those of us who actually know what it's about — reinstating pre-2005 law that ensured internet providers could discriminate on the basis of volume but not content. Since the opposing side is so badly misinformed, those of us who want the internet to remain open to innovation and freedom of expression have to help educate them before the debate can really be held."

Comment Re:Give me a printout! (Score 1) 904

You could always adopt the "mostly" secret voting system we have in the UK. ALl our ballot papers have a number on them that's recorded against the name of a voter. This means that your voting record can be discovered, but in reality it only happens (for instance) if you're applying for a sensitive government job. The number of people with the ability to do this is very small, so the vote selling and coercion arguments don't apply.

The main problem is, though, that people lie about how they voted. The best example of this was after our 1992 election when the Tories (who won with a 29 majority) would have been returned with a majority of well over 100 if people had really voted the way they claimed they had. If we'd had any kind of check on the ballot papers it would have looked like there had been huge ballot-stuffing by the opposition.

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