What do liberal House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Christian Coalition have in common? No, it’s not a penchant for government-funded jet rides — it’s a misguided belief about Net neutrality. The net neutrality debate is basically a question of whether or not broadband service providers can manage their networks for quality of service and potentially charge more money for greater bandwidth use. That’s a pretty straightforward question, but it has been twisted by those who don’t want to see the Internet “change.”
I believe the author of this article is completely off the mark. Obviously, net nuetrality will not have a negative effect on development, due to the fact that bandwidth will be a non-issue in the near future as fiber replaces copper. The telcos will rule with fttc and leave cable companies in the dust. I think is quite possible that cable internet will be considered the dialup of tomorrow after fttc takes over. Net nuetrality laws need to be enabled to keep this process under control as it is implemented in order to keep the largest ISPs from taking advantage of mid sized and smaller isp's. Its also obvious that those who are proponents of anti-nuetrality have a vested financial interest in maintaining more control. Fiber is the key to a healthy internet in the future. Remeber its YOUR tax dollars that created the internet in the first place, and even gave isp's the opportunity to pocket your 50 bucks a month. Cable and telcos would still be alive and well, even if the internet never came to be. Its Something to think about.
Sonia apparently forgets what the 'internet' used to be before the government neutralized monopolies from the 80's by commercializing an open and neutral national network that anybody could use. She forgets the $.75 each emails. $.25 per minute to be online, $1 per kilobite of information transferred, severe restrictions on what anybody could see or do and content controlled by the hand full of companies that had networks. That was the state of the 'internet' by the time the so called free market of just a couple monopolies such as compuserve and genie had their way. if you don't believe that's possible, just look at the sorry state of our cell phone network. where the world of 'minutes' and 'contracts' and 'cost per kilobyte' and 'cost per message' still are alive and well for millions of victims. Now we are rapidly heading back to that sorry state of affairs, as the bush government has pretty much completely dropped the ball on bolstering our information infrastructure, leaving that to monopolistic companies like comcast and verizon, who would rather use net bandwidth for their own vod profits, rather than have an actual free internet, where anybody can do anything. In the recent AT&T merger, the bush FCC gave AT&T the green light to end net neutrality in just 2 years. that's how long we have to get legislation in to protect our freedom. after that, the long march back into the old network prison we used to have will be well underway. The internet is in danger. our freedom is in danger. sonia has not studied up on history, so if we were to leave things in her hands, we'd be doomed to repeat it. see http://www.savetheinternet.com/ for more information. -Dave
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The Quest to Neuter the Net
Posted by: Sonia Arrison February 9, 2007 04:00 AMWhat do liberal House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Christian Coalition have in common? No, it’s not a penchant for government-funded jet rides — it’s a misguided belief about Net neutrality. The net neutrality debate is basically a question of whether or not broadband service providers can manage their networks for quality of service and potentially charge more money for greater bandwidth use. That’s a pretty straightforward question, but it has been twisted by those who don’t want to see the Internet “change.”
Fiber is the key to a healthy internet in the future. Remeber its YOUR tax dollars that created the internet in the first place, and even gave isp's the opportunity to pocket your 50 bucks a month. Cable and telcos would still be alive and well, even if the internet never came to be. Its Something to think about.
She forgets the $.75 each emails. $.25 per minute to be online, $1 per kilobite of information transferred, severe restrictions on what anybody could see or do and content controlled by the hand full of companies that had networks.
That was the state of the 'internet' by the time the so called free market of just a couple monopolies such as compuserve and genie had their way.
if you don't believe that's possible, just look at the sorry state of our cell phone network. where the world of 'minutes' and 'contracts' and 'cost per kilobyte' and 'cost per message' still are alive and well for millions of victims.
Now we are rapidly heading back to that sorry state of affairs, as the bush government has pretty much completely dropped the ball on bolstering our information infrastructure, leaving that to monopolistic companies like comcast and verizon, who would rather use net bandwidth for their own vod profits, rather than have an actual free internet, where anybody can do anything.
In the recent AT&T merger, the bush FCC gave AT&T the green light to end net neutrality in just 2 years. that's how long we have to get legislation in to protect our freedom. after that, the long march back into the old network prison we used to have will be well underway.
The internet is in danger. our freedom is in danger. sonia has not studied up on history, so if we were to leave things in her hands, we'd be doomed to repeat it.
see http://www.savetheinternet.com/ for more information.
-Dave