Prioritizing sites is bad, but prioritizing packets, which is what the proposed laws would ban, is not bad. Regulating the internet canbe a very bad thing, just need to protect the freedom to surf the net

http://www.handsoff.org/ and http://dontregulate.org/

http://www.internetofthefuture.org/

SAVE THE INTERNET!

Keeps ISPs from choosing what you see, but at the same time you need to be beable to let them prioritize information so that everything works better. Allow us to have freedom to visit what sites we want, but don't allow these strict government regulations

YUO FORGOT POLAND. NOO I CANNOT EVER FORGOT

Net neuttality deprioritizes information. That's not what we want. We want to just keep ISPs from blocking access. Change this YTMND so it doesn't mislead people into thinking that net neutrality is a good thing.

Are you getting paid for this or something Virty?

Don't trust anything Virty says. Handsoff.org is a fake site put up by telecom interests, and so are others. Just take one look at dontregulate.org and you can tell right away.

You make wild accusations. Net Neutrality does not save the internet, it will hinder it. It will slow down this new fiber optic direct connection. We need to make laws to prevent prioritizing sites, not packets of information. True neutrality will slow down the internet.

Furthermore, how the f*ck could ensuring all traffic gets treated equally (like it is TODAY) be a bad thing? Oh yeah, it is if you're a conservative sucking the cock of business interests.

Conservative? What the hell? This isn't a right-vs-left issue. It's a technical one. Without prioritizing, information will arrive late and create lag. Information is prioritized right now. Without it, there would me alot more lag, and online games would become unbareable

Net neutrality sounds like socialism to me. It's all about supply and demand, if you don't like what the telcos are charging, go elsewhere.

this is much better than that moby video on myspace. 5'd.

this sh*t is bad. i've been seeing it alot lately. if you really pay attention to the sh*t trying to get passed, the usa is slowly turning into one of those scifi totallitarian control states.

Virty, the telecom companies were given 200 billion dollars in the 90's to lay down open fiber cables but they did not so shut your keyboard.

The backbone of the internet are those fiber optic cables. Internet 2.0 will have it so that the direct connection to those fiber optic cables are through fiber optic cables.

GOOD. Should be at the top of YTMND in no time.

Anyone who is taking Virty seriously is a retard. It's blatantly obvious he's joking.

step by step they'll turn the internet into a corporate money making machine. and that'll be the end of ytmnd.

DONKEYPUNCH, it wouldn't be a bad idea if you stopped drinking the neocon Koolaid that makes you believe that ANY kind of government law or regulation designed to protect the citizenry from corporate abuse amounts to communism. That's just plain nonsense and it does nothing for intelligent debate.

net nuetrality FTW.

Put the adresses in Description please, it went too fast for me.

the balogna is in the nest, the pastrami is recyclable.

I'm talking about the technical issue here. You don't want companies to choose what sites you see, but you shouldn't stop them from being able to prioritize packets of information.

EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE THIS. Seriously, could anyone sponsor this? (I can't spare anything right now, sorry.)

http://www.internetofthefuture.org/ Net Neutrality will cause alot of harm. There are already laws in existence that stop ISP from doing such a thing.

The Internet is NOT having a wonderful time. http://savetheinternet.com

I understood there was a law to create (not abandon) net nutrality. We have it now and we shouldn't mess with it by passing unneeded laws. I guess it dosen't matter create or destory we have net nutrality now and don't need anything to change that.

THIS MUST BE MADE AWARE TO THE PUBLIC.

Too important to let sit here.

So what, we're now creating Diet Internet now? I'm sorry, but you can't disallow websites for nothing but your personal dislike to them... Peadophilic websites and KKK websites and generally illegal sites, sure it's good... But when websites are doing nothing illegal, shutting them down is just impeeding freedom of speech, which is becoming more and more of a joke every day.

5'd more people need to know about this.

5'd and faved...people need to know this...f*ck the phone companys...theyre fossils of a gladfully forgotten age....check out www.eff.org and www.pirate-party.us

you forgot haddaway

info-tainment FTW. also, shinsenbaka, why downvote this if you clearly agree with what he's saying?

Virty's either presenting a straw man argument, or unintentionally making a fool of him/herself. Either way, it's disgusting.

You should change it to, like, Net Neutrality: The Unfunny Truth.

If u DV this, u dhould be killed. 5'd for fricken caring

public service announcements on ytmnd is a no, but i'll 5 it because it needs to stay up because of the message

ppl need to know about new neutrality, it could be one of the biggest f*ckups that congress will do in the last 20 years

5'd for publicity sake (and for gods sake!) the more ppl that see this the better ftw

I don't think enough people know how serious an issue this is.

Its already happening to me whenever I go to Youtube...

Companies spend millions on advertisement already, if they put those millions towards making their pathetic sites (that not many visit) faster, is just plain pathetic.

Whatever those stupid american politicans decide about the Internet won't be possible. They cannot control the Internet. The Internet is not something that can be controlled. They might make claims, but they won't be able to put them into action. To relax people, don't listen to what they say, cause it doesn't really matter.

NET NEUTRALITY FTW!

Hey, DONKEYPUNCH? Most countries are mixed economies, including the U.S. - we're capitalists and socialists. Regulation keeps the capitalists from running amok, from harming you, your health, and your rights. Back away from the Cheetos and get an education, mmkay?

I take what I said back. This is terrible. I never thought that it could be done. I can't belive that american politicians actually are allowed to recieve money from lobbies. I'm glad I don't live in America.

This makes me sad. There are already laws that help prevent ISPs from doing that, Net Neutrality is just unnecessary government regulation that can slow the internet by deprioritizing information.

Agreed. Save the net people.

Okay, what the f*ck? Selling the internet?

virty must be joking... those sites are fake

loll funnaaaayyyy :)

5'd for serious issue.

The kind of law I would want overthrowing net nutrality would be something like Virty says-keeping ISPs from picking and choosing what your Internet is, but able to prioritize info. This is not that law.

Yep, Virty's sites are corporate-sponsored, designed to look "grass roots". Sucker.

5 for spreading the truth.

Jesus christ. I'm sending this thing out. f*cking hell.

change the music.

The sites are real, and they contain no lies. They are sponsored by those that want to save the internet, to keep it from government regulation.

Morons. Guess what happens if companies start doing this? other compaies will come out with internet service that does not control your traffic. Company sucide to try and force someone to watch TV. This would be like if cable companies tried to only make you watch Life and Bravo and took the other channels away. Your going to just sit there and watch life? Learn how the world works . com imo

Public hosting companies like Geocities already charge for bandwidth per site, I don't see how this is any different.

OH sh*t!

Alert the internet!

Fived for great justice. And Virty is an ass.

Guess what? Earthlink is a Scientology corp! 5 all the way.

5 for great justice.

This is a real problem.

Although I do think that this is a problem that needs to be addressed I think that ForScience is right. If this is passed and companies do regulate sites, other companies will just non-regulation as a selling point.

i was expecting the "what is love?" fad, but this is just as good :}

thats no good!

Net neutrality is good. It has been the working principle of the Internet since the WWW was created. To turn the entire Internet into private enterprise is a bullsh*t move by the telecos to take over the last form of mass communication (just like they did with radio and TV.) Just look at who is supporting "Hands off the Internet," the same telecom companies who are giving our phone records to the government. It's all a motivated by greed. Keep Net Neutrality. check http://www.savetheinternet.com

I agree with you in principle, but not in tactics. When does writing Congress and/or supporting non-profit organizations ever work for issues like these? These guys always end up getting what they want (eventually). They don't play fair, so tactics must be changed.

the thing is that if congress sees this as a factor that could get the youth vote out then it could be a determining factor in their vote, so the more we bitch the better, andreally, are you doing anything so important to not spend five minutes bitching at some elitest douchebag

It's not 'love', apparently.

You're all way late, we're already f*cked: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6081882.html

this is retarded. they will never get it off the ground if an owner of a blocked site has a somewhat decent lawyer.

you guys do realize that whatever happens, there will alwais be a way to counter it, hacking programs and sh*t. Hell if they block, we deblock, simple.

Things get passed though the House of Reps all the time. That doesn't mean the Senate will let it pass.

DEFEND NET NEUTRALITY!!! Also, still can't sleep, scientologists will get me.

The laws proposed would have changed the way how information can be handled, not just keep ISPs from unlawfully blocking sites. New laws need to be proposed that are not pro-neutrality.

Shut the hell up, Virty. Nothing good could come of "prioritizing" anything. Data shouldn't be treated differently based on who forks up the most money to the phone company. If that were to happen, then it would only be a matter of time until free speech is gone, and the internet turns into business backed television commericals.

5'd for justice.

Hippies and other various morons made me love capitalism, but this net neutrality debate made me realize it isnt the end-all be-all. Our country has some serious problems and our insistence on pure capitalism is killing us. And if we dont do something, it will soon kill the internet.

VIVE L'YTMND!

THE INTERNET IS SERIOUS BUSINESS.

Ahhhh FATHERLAND!!!

Compliments from your friendly neighborhood upvoter!

THE INTERNET IS THE FATHERLAND! Without it, i'm nothing.

PROTECT THE FATHERLAND! The Fatherland is serious buisness!

you gotta be f*cking kidding me...

STOP f*ckING USING THAT MUSIC! IT WAS GOOD THE FIRST TIME NOW ITS GOING IN THE sh*tTER.

Save the internet!!

save the internet 1st then tackle global warmings kk

1'd | oh pwned...

ALERT THE INTERNET!

informative'd!

Keep Sen. Stevens away from my tubes!

5'd for awesomeness, but god damnit this song creeps me out D:

Omg, Ted Stevens was right. OMFG

The internet has given me so much throughout my life... now there's a chance for me to repay the internet for all that it has provided! Viva la revolucion!

lol, I was expecting what is love musing with Ted Stevens and some others dancing.

See comment: ForScience

Umm at the end there was a phone number. 1. why should we call it? 2. is it your number? if not then whos?

Calling my senators and emailing them tomorrow. Ones against and ones undecided. Everyone, please do the same.

For f*cks sake max doesn't have enough money as it is, if you haven't done your part and signed a petition, and called your senator(do at least the first), you don't deserve to use the internet.

Anti-freedom leftist propaganda

Thanks for making this! I was planning on doing it myself because it would directly effect the business my father and I started, but you did a pretty good job, so I don't think it will be necessary. You may want to edit it and mention that all those Ted Stevens YTMNDs are about this. He's the one who wrote the bill that will get rid of Net Neutrality. Man, what a dumbass.

Irony: A plethora of mini-monopolies, created by the left, now cooperating and possibly threatening mass censorship with the right's blessing. And you want the guys who MADE this probelm to FIX it. Brilliant. Stop relying on the government to fix problems. Deregulate internet access to increase competition, and it one company decides to ban YTMND, switch to one that doesn't. Problem solved by YOU, not some Washingto beaurocrat.

so... in summary, is net nutrality good or bad?

PurseMonster: Alot of people don't have the ability to do that. In my area there are only two ISP's (but since a guy from the other ISP that i'm not paying for came over install it I'm presuming they are atleast partners). All other ISP's provide dial-up only in my area. Conclusion: If this bill passes, living on the Oregon Coastline will really suck.

Thank you for making this known to me