[Urbane Guerrilla]

"Reasonable network management?" By whose lights? Terminology like that is a red flag to people who actually take an interest in liberty.

The word "progressive" in a political context should always be used in quotes, in part to indicate that it does not mean what some say it means. "Progressive" in my several decades' experience is chiefly progressive of overweening centralized governmental power, and such a power structure is a dead hand, suppressing the economic power to make prosperity on every hand. It is necessarily less democratic too, as a moment's thought will show.

This is not a thing to be trusted, but only to be repelled. This repelling is really just a less -- reeking -- version of the Jeffersonian struggle that waters the tree of Liberty with you-know-whose blood. As long as you're exsanguinating tyrants, you're doing about as well as exsanguination could.

The Administration as usual is reckoning without free-market mechanisms. A telecomm company that decided to invidiously "manage" content can and could always be replaced by a more freedom-oriented company, which by marketing that point of their service would steal away market share, particularly in the libertarian 'Net culture. This present regrettable Administration does not believe in capitalism, not really, and all their actions may be fruitfully scrutinized in that light. The dopes Obama appoints seem all to believe that capitalism is the problem, and not the salvation.