Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 9th Jun 2006 11:22 UTC, submitted by Dylan
The US House of Representatives definitively rejected the concept of Net neutrality on Thursday, dealing a bitter blow to Internet companies like Amazon.com, eBay and Google that had engaged in a last-minute lobbying campaign to support it. By a 269-152 vote that fell largely along party lines, the House Republican leadership mustered enough votes to reject a Democrat-backed amendment that would have enshrined stiff Net neutrality regulations into federal law and prevented broadband providers from treating some Internet sites differently from others.
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2005-12-09
Hurdles to overcome:
1. Locating the 60 million that dislike the Telcos and ISPs strongly enough to oppose them.
2. Convincing them to yield up $1000 dollars front-money in an as-yet non-existant alternative with the promise that the alternative will absolutely be immensely better in more dimensions than I can readily count.
3. Deciding who holds on to the $60b in cash while this non-existant, not-obviously better alternative is um, what? Built? Derived?
4. Convincing the well-connected and certainly better-funded Telcos and ISPs to just stand idly by and allow this alternative to be lobbied, funded, and (built?) and eventually displace them, costing them profitibility and scads of market control.
5. Preventing the alternative from merely becoming the beast you went out to battle in the absence of sound legislation to curb the transformation.
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera!