House Knocks Down Net Neutrality
Fri 9 Jun 2006 13:09:58
I just heard some sad news on talk radio. Net Neutrality was found dead in Congress this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the community will miss it. Even if you didn't enjoy its work, there's no denying its contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
Update: Just to give you an idea of this problem carried to its extreme logical conclusion, here's what the internet might look like were it up to the corporations lobbying to get rid of net neutrality:
Food for thought:
“Net Neutrality”
Digital Discrimination or Regulatory
Gamesmanship in Cyberspace? from the Cato Institute.
http://www.dontregulate.org/
Linnwood, it's really funny that your comment, consisting of two links to telecom industry-sponsored propaganda content, was initially marked as "spam." And really, CATO. I mean, ew.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hands_Off_the_Internet
Really, Paulo... I think slandering the well respected Cato Institute as "telecom industry-sponsored propaganda" is beneath you.
If I refused to talk about the issue and simply labeled companies and groups like Goolge's arguments "content industry-sponsored propaganda" there would be no debate.
The Internet has been so wildly successful so far due to the lack of regulation. If it an't broke, don't fix it.
"Telecom-industry sponsored propaganda" is not slander, it's simple and literal fact: CATO Sponsors include Comcast, Verizon, SBC, and Time Warner; CATO is opposing so-called regulation in favor of these companies. SaveTheInternet.com could rightly be called propaganda as well, but objectively, which is fairer to internet users: enforcement to protect neutrality, or a scenario such as is illustrated above, where companies "regulate" their customers' internet use for further profit?