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chriswallace.eu | Daily Links — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:34:51 +0000

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Senator Stevens and other Weasels - Head-On Headlines — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 05:33:28 +0000

[...] Senator “Tubes” Stevens is out to nail down the coffin on Net Neutrality: If you believe in true Net Neutrality, itâ€™s time to get on the phones and try to prevent Senator Ted Stevens from calling a vote on his Net Neutrality bill (S.2686) as the Senate goes into recess. Basically, no one is going to be there after Thursday and yet Stevens is going to try and get a cloture vote through so a filibuster can be prevented and the bill can be considered in the lame duck session after November elections before the Senate leaves for the August recess. [...]

By: iburl

iburl — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 05:03:29 +0000

Government regulation is not always a bad thing, people. What if these born-again libertarians pushing the telco line had their way with the highway system? “Hey man, if Haliburton want to charge me $200 to go thru their toll booth that’s just freedom baby. If somebody wants to repaint the street in front of my house to add 3 more lanes, that’s just the magic of the marketplace!” Obviously we need laws to protect us from greedy monopolies. If they were not making these power grabs then we would not. But they are. So we do.

By: B-Con

B-Con — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:56:15 +0000

Quick Note: The link at the end apparantly leads to a search, which has expired. A permenent link is needed.

By: William B. Hunter

William B. Hunter — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:13:21 +0000

Just sent this to Sen Tubes:
In regards to S.2686,
You are a Bozo, A complete and utter Rube. You obviously do not understand even the basics of Internet technology, and yet you are pushing this very destructive bill. Since you obviously don’t understand the implications of this bill, I can only assume you are motivated by greed for campaign contributions. With this in mind, I am donating $100 to whoever runs against you in the next election. I am but one of many Internet users all across the nation that have made the same pledge. You should find a 10 year old to explain how the Internet works. In conclusion, I would like to reiterate, you are a Bozo.

By: bj

bj — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 21:28:32 +0000

“The oversite that I think should control a company is the consumer.”

That is a fine idea, but the problem is in this case where does a consumer go if he only has two choices for broadband and both are discriminating? The Telecomms and Cable Companies are Regulatory Whores who only decry regulation when it benefits them to do so. The oversight committee, the FCC is in the pocket of the Telecomms. When the Telecomms received billions of dollars in tax incentives by promising to build fiber to every home in America, what happened? They grabbed the money and ran. We, the American Taxpayer, paid the contractors and the contractors reneged on the deal. The Telecomms have BENEFITTED by most regulation. You’ve gotta wonder why they’re now spending millions of dollars to destroy the one bit of regulation that has existed since the beginning of the internet.

And BTW, the internet would not be the successful entity it is today if it wasn’t a Neutral Network. This article tells about another network that is not neutral and how it functions (or doesn’t.)