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• At 2:30 PM ,  HOTI said...

  Will, As someone who has been following this debate in my work with the Hands Off the Internet coalition, I wanted to point out some issues with the blog post you found.
  
  First, it's old and refers to legislation in the last Congress. Second, the internet has not operated under "net neutrality" since it's earliest days.
  
  "The proponents will tell you that net neutrality has always been - based on a law that applied to 40% of the broadband connections carried by DSL lines. It never applied to cable - which accounts for about 60% of the broadband connections. So NN was never “the founding principle”. It was a hindrance to DSL, and the lack of it allowed cable to arrive on the scene and steal the market (well, that and the fact that cable had faster lines and a $100 billion network investment to make it better)."
  
  http://www.kungfuquip.com/archives/569
  
  "Net neutrality" as defined in proposed Dorgan-Snowe legislation would be freeze the broadband marketplace exactly where it is, disallowing not just theoretical abuses but new innovations, too. Net neutrality would create more problems than it seeks to solve and these problems are hypothetical. Why do we need additional regulations to address a hypothetical problem particularly when nobody has proved that the current laws and regulations we have aren't adequate to handle these issues should they arise. Thanks.

   

• At 8:14 AM ,  The Mighty Will said...

  Well, perhaps you are more knowledgeable about this, but it does not change that fact that (1) the video is still posted and syndicated all over the Internet and it sends a STRONG message; and (2) I simply placed a link to the video. I am still allowing viewers of this post to make up their own minds about the topic, as I am still making up my mind.

   

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