[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jade Eyed Wolf:
I'm sure there are quite a lot more out there who share these views, even if the issues don't necessarily directly apply to them.

All these issues may seem insignificant right now, but trust me, when you step back and look at the bigger picture, the issues become exponentially bigger. I'm talking 1st amendment, freedom of speech rights, big. Think about... I'm talking Net Neutrality here (if you don't know what that is, I suggest you learn about it quick). Has anyone noticed that the Net Neutrality regulations, which just narrowly passed through the Senate, don't seem to apply quite as broadly to wireless as wired ISP's? If Net Neutrality DID apply to wireless the same way as wired (which, really it ought to), then the site filtering, throttling, and deep packet inspection that AT&T allegedly does now would be illegal without a warrant and just cause.

As it stands, the Net Neutrality regulations allow for wireless ISP's filter, throttle, or altogether block certain websites and services as they see fit. Are you F***ING kidding me!? Let me break that down for you:

As it stands, if AT&T says "No," they could, say, block Netflix altogether, because it competes with their own on demand video services or something. Or YouTube! Yeah, let's block that as well, or at least throttle it so badly that people will stop going there. Oh and how about any particular searches that reveal bad press about us? Let's filter that out of the equation...

Oh yeah... It's like that. Don't believe me? Head on over to the AT&T Skyrocket forum, or any of the other AT&T LTE forums and see about the problems people are having getting to certain places... Yeah, it's happening RIGHT NOW!!!

Now, here's the creepiest part:

Ever notice how more and more people are using their mobile connections to reach the Internet? Be it on their smartphone, or tablet device, or mobile hotspot, mobile broadband connections are becoming evermore ubiquitous and pervasive.

With people on LTE getting faster connections and better service than some cable and even FiOS, it should come as no surprise that sooner or later, mobile broadband will become more common than fixed broadband. When that happens, more people will be inclined to use their mobile connection for internet and "cut the cable" in exactly the same way as most people have already done with their landline phone services. Hell, this is one of the staples of the Obama Administration!! Our President WANTS broadband to be accessible to as much of "All Americans" as can reasonably be achieved!! What better way to make that happen than to deploy advanced broadband wireless services to blanket the nation?

And that's what's creepy... If the current regulations, which allow for the giant corporate ISP's that provide us our wireless services to get away with filtering, throttling, and blocking what we can and can't do on the Internet, remain in tact, then how does that make us any different, as a country when it comes to Liberty, than China? The only difference I can see is that it isn't our Federal Government which is inhibiting our Constitutional rights; it's the corporations and banks which have lobbied, bribed, and outright bought our Federal Government out from under its citizens' noses.

This could be our future folks!

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