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Archive for June, 2006

Debate over Network Neutrality

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

According to a blogpost at Save the Internet, Amazon.com’s Paul Misener handily defeated Mike McCurry — co-Chair of the telecom front group “Hands off the Internet” — in a debate over Net Neutrality at George Washington University on Friday.
The debate was videotaped by PoliticsTV, and downloads of the entire debate are available there.
I won’t make […]

Discrimination WILL exist without Net Neutrality

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

The telecomms keep pushing their lie– that there’s no need to add government regulations, insinuating that the incredibly innovative internet grew without any regulations. That just isn’t so. Net Neutrality has been in place since the beginning, which is WHY the internet has been so successful.
If Network Neutrality is voted OUT, then not only will […]

Bloggers and Geeks to lose a treasured Target

Friday, June 16th, 2006

Bill Gates is more or less RETIRING from Microsoft. Though he will still be Chairman, and advisor on key projects, he will no longer be involved in the day-to-day running of the company as of July 2008.
Luckily Steve Ballmer will be assuming the role of Company Scapegoat. I’m sure he’ll do a riproaring job . […]

The Technical Side of Network Neutrality

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

I’ve been wading through the posts on this issue at Slashdot. This one has some of the best explanations on why the whole issue has been:

manufactured by the Telecomms in the first place.
grossly misrepresented by those same Telecomms.

The explanation of what was done, posted by Arivanov is this:
Traffic is carried between two autonomous systems on […]

Stevens from Alaska tells Senate we won’t get Net Neutrality

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

Now, this Stevens is the same guy who built a $223 Million Bridge to Nowhere on our tax dollars so fifty people could get to the hospital in the winter, and whose major campaign contributors, all Telecom and Cable Giants, are:
(first) News Corp.
(third) Verizon
(fifth) Viacom
(sixth) AT&T
(seventh) Walt Disney
(ninth) General Electric (NBC)
(nineteenth) Sprint Nextel
He’s the […]

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