net neutrality thoughts

[Dan Lund]

Unfortunately pandoras box has already been opened by the corps.
It's a lagislative war now, whether we like it or not.
Reminds me of a while back when there was a (albeit very miniscule)
push to illegalize open-source in US govt dealings.  It was backed by
corp(s?) Also.
Anytime you employ a group of people to be lawmakers, that's what they
do.  Whether more are needed or not, that's not the issue,
unfortunately... Job security is...

--Dan

On 12/18/06, JT Moree <moreejt at pcxperience.com> wrote:
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> IANAL or an economist or even an expert on net neutrality
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> I think net neutrality is great--as the market demands it.  I'm not
> impressed by legislative attempts to protect it.  Any attempts by
> government to regulate technology are fraught with misunderstanding
> (CAN-SPAM anyone) and prone to become a mess that is irreversible.
> (Aren't we still paying for the WWII tax on the phone lines or something
> like that?)
>
> The Internet infrastructure being billed by most ISPs to date has no fee
> based Quality of Service but that's the way the market allowed it.
> There was nothing technical stopping ISP's for charging based on the
> type of traffic in the past.  They just didn't.  Likely because they
> know that CUSTOMERS will switch en masse to a competitor as soon as they do.
>
> I wholely disapprove of any attempt by telecomm and cable providers to
> push legislation which goes against so called 'net neutrality'.
>
> I also wholely disapprove of attempts by anyone else to push legislation
> to protect so called 'net neutrality'.
>
> We have a free market which so far has kept net neutrality on its own.
>  As long as legislation does not tip the scales--in either direction--it
> will continue to do its job.
>
> - --
> JT Morée
> PC Xperience, Inc.
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