Never mind--I can't complete the post because *this site keeps* censoring it! Amazing--no hate, no curse words, no threats--just raw censorship at work--here's all that their censor will allow:

Young people need to learn a valuable lesson regardless of where you live--government is only your friend for as long as you can *keep it out of your own private business*--government is the only entity you will experience in your lifetime that will demand a percentage of your money or throw you in jail if you would rather keep it because you think the government is throwing it away. Corporations have no such power over you--you don't like a company's products, you don't have to buy them! But try telling the government you don't wish to pay the taxes it levies because you disapprove of them and see how far that gets you! The US government was formed in 1776 to marginalize the power of government over individuals and maximize the power of *people* over their own lives and their own destinies.

Everywhere in the world today the same struggles continue just as they did centuries ago--governments and tyrants still prefer to enslave, and human beings are still fighting for their rights *over* tyrannical slave states and dictatorial governments. It all boils down to whether or not you believe you best know how to live your life and how to spend your own money--or whether you believe the government knows best what you should do and how you should spend your money...! I laugh about it, because it is so obvious that most people would opt for freedom any day of the week over indentured servitude to their governments--but what I find amazing today is just how little the upcoming generation *knows* about the tyrannies of government and the horrific dangers involved when people become complacent about their freedoms!

This is entire "net neutrality" subterfuge is that struggle in microcosm--those who blindly "trust the government" to do what is best for them are those most apt to be bitterly disappointed and the most abused by the very government in which they trust. You think AT&T is "bad"? It's an Angel compared to the federal government--AT&T or Comcast (I use different companies altogether) can't imprison you for not using their products--your "friendly" national government, otoh, will throw you in prison even if you "say" the wrong things on the Internet! That already happens in the EU today. It's amazing to think anyone would want that in the US, where the constitution of the country actually *prohibits the government* from persecuting/prosecuting its citizens because of their political speech--but, yes, there are nutty people pushing for 'net neutrality' to eventually allow the government to *regulate Internet content* in the US--specifically *political* speech! That's only because these misguided people believe that *their opinions* will never be censored by the government--only the "other guy's opinions"...and they are therefore missing the entire point. Seriously, who might *ask* for their political speech to be *regulated by the government*? Smart people? Of course not. Yea, if these people were smart we wouldn't be having this conversation as nobody would ever have the gall to broach such a deceptive subject as "network neutrality."

---Wow, what a way to underscore the dangers of government-control of Internet content!