[ale] OT: Craig Newmark of Craig's List on Net Neutrality

[Jeff Hubbs]

I call "Hitler!"

Actually, I was looking forward to see what happens in Thunderbird when
the inline quote brackets on the left crash into the ones on the right.

Jeff

Chris Farris wrote:
> This thread is over
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> Chris
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> Geoffrey wrote:
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>> Jim Popovitch wrote:
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>>> eoffrey wrote:
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>>>> Jim Popovitch wrote:
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>>>>> Geoffrey wrote:
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>>>>>> Jim Popovitch wrote:
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>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> Is that FUD?  Where do you see that this is the issue that 
>>>>>>> broadband providers are concerned with?
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> Do you really think they'll stop at simply prompting you to go to
>>>>>>  another site?  Come on, look at television.  There's not a 
>>>>>> channel out there that doesn't have pop up commercials during the
>>>>>>  shows now.  It was bad enough when the commercials interupted
>>>>>> the shows, now they're running during them.
>>>>>>             
>>>>> So, why aren't you advocating a law to restrict TV broadcasters 
>>>>> from displaying pop-up ads on their content?  I understand that you
>>>>>  have pet-peeves (lots of them it seems ;-)), but really now,
>>>>> should everyone of your pet-peeves stimulate a new law (which, btw,
>>>>>  passing new laws isn't cheap either)?
>>>>>           
>>>> You know what Jim, I'm not going to get into another pissing contest 
>>>> with you because you seem to enjoy that.
>>>>         
>>> Oh Geoffrey stop that again, it makes you look petty. You respond to 
>>> someone's comments, and when they respond back you point a finger and 
>>> call it a pissing contest.  Nice.
>>>       
>> Petty?  Who's the one dropping personal insults with their posts?  Now 
>> that's petty.  You can't have a discussion without attacking the poster. 
>>    I'll be glad to have a constructive discussion about the subject, but 
>> don't go insulting people and throwing words in their mouths.  I never 
>> once suggested a law regarding TV.  If you read it that way, that's your 
>> problem.
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>>>> But, I did not once mentioned creating any laws.  The original post 
>>>> was about a law that was pushed through that would quote: 'allow 
>>>> internet service providers to play favorites among different web
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>>>  > sites.'  Seems to me, I'm simply arguing against that law.
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>>> You are arguing against a new law in the present case of "Net 
>>> Neutrality".  But your comments (that I was replying to above) about TV 
>>> Pop-up ads and TV broadcasters clearly implied that if you didn't do 
>>> _something_ to stop them the world could run a muck.
>>>       
>> How you turn a discussion against a particular law into one promoting 
>> one is beyond me.  I find it interesting that you trimmed my comment as 
>> to what I stated my solution to the TV problem is and that was:
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>> 'As for television, I simply don't watch it anymore, so the popup ad 
>> folks don't get my eyes..'
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