Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 25th Jun 2006 22:47 UTC
Slowly, I step out of the Intercity train to Amsterdam, en route to university; I'm tired, I need some coffee. I check my watch and realise my metro leaves in 3 minutes, so I need to hurry in order to and buy me a coffee-to-go, and make it on time to the metro platform. I pick up my pace to run, as Mike Skinner would say.
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There are so many issues and arguments at hand, ...
I personally am very confused about network neutrality. Almost everything I read about it makes me favor it. I want the internet to be like a sidewalk--no one limits who can walk on it, or when, or where, and no one collects tolls.
But the problem is--most of the politicians who support it, especially those often highlighted at http://www.savetheinternet.com/ seem to be the enemies of freedom on other issues.
I know that that veers into politics, which we studiously avoid here. But apparently network neutrality is a very political issue.
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2005-12-16
While this article is a nice exercise in creative writing, I think it falls a bit short of offering any supportive evidence that the current draft of net neutrality legislation is right way to go. There are so many issues and arguments at hand, from the US global economic position, to our telecom infrastructure with regard to domestic emergencies and homeland security, to getting broadband access in rural areas (build out reqs), freedom of info, to capitalism in general. Check out the testimonies on cspan, read some info on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality. That's where I'd start. The suggestion that without net netreuality we are doomed to incompatible services and market monopolies seems naive to me. However, as a hypothetical example... yes, I think it seems probable.