
Good evening. I’ve been hung up today and unfortunately could not do my usually full range of reading for tonight, but I have a few Net Neutrality points to make tonight, so here we go.
First, AT&T has apparently come out against the Verizon-Google Net Neutrality proposal, writing to the FCC in favor of paid prioritization of Internet traffic. So much for this proposal being a huge benefit for big, wireless-heavy firms, eh?
Of course, there’s some political scheming already going on with Net Neutrality, too, beyond the corporate posturing going on.
Carly Fiorina, whom I’m told mopped the floor with Babs Boxer in a debate tonight, has come out against FCC/Free Press Net Neutrality. She got it in one in this quote via BigGovernment.com:
“The principle sounds fantastic, but the principle is not the problem,” Fiorina said in an interview at the Technology Policy Institute’s conference in Aspen, Colo. “The problem is how companies and regulatory bodies are trying to translate that principle into policy, which would have a bad effect.”
Meanhile Boxer is too afraid to comment, calling it ‘premature’ to do so. The whole FCC is running scared, now having delayed further action until after the election, which has all the socialist groups like Free Press furious. They know the longer it takes, the stronger the opposition will get, and most importantly, Republican gains in November will hurt their cause even further (not that all House Democrats back them anyway, far from it).
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trutexan Thursday, September 2nd at 5:59AM EST (link)Thanks so much for keeping up with this and letting us know what’s going on. There”s virtually nothing about this in the MSM if you don’t know where to look.
I live in the boonies myself and access broadband internet via a 60 ft tower off the top of my house with a frequency-hopping signal. Works great and I pay no more than Time Warner or AT&T broadband available to city dwellers. As far as I can tell, there’s nothing wrong with the internet now, although I am happy that ICANN allowed the creation of a dot xxx suffix which will make it easy to block porn when required. Now to get all those existing porn sites to create pointers to new domain names. Personally, I think ISPs that host porn should do that for free as a community service.
Thanks again. Great job.
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Re Boxer calling it 'premature' to comment
bk (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 6:18AM EST (link)This is the same Barbara Boxer who does NOT find it ‘premature’ to vote ‘aye’ on 2,000-page bills that have neither been read nor debated, correct?
Curious.
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ywhyvon1 Thursday, September 2nd at 10:10AM EST (link)Socialist with fork looking for Socialist with pork pie-unknown
Great job with this series Neil
fpete13527 (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 10:14AM EST (link)Thanks for all you do to stay informed and keep us informed on this.
earlgrey (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 12:07PM EST (link)I haven’t been following it very well, as a person (especially me) can only take so much of this stuff. I think Carly’s statement on net neutrality could be applied to just about every failed government intervention.