Why hasn't there been a dedicated thread in here yet?

Here is a nice take on it

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/17/net_neut_slow_death/

And another

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=668071&content_id={62C7AD8C-AA52-4719-909D-D5D50FD15AFE}¬oc=1

[Edited on July 19, 2006 at 12:38 PM. Reason : x]

7/19/2006 12:37:56 PM

Probably because it is far less a discussion for political or philosophical debate than it is fodder for tech talk or some such?

Just a thought.

7/19/2006 7:34:27 PM

It is definitely a political issue

7/19/2006 7:52:20 PM

with china's analistic approach to things (though i can't blame them for wanting to stay in power) it makes it far more a political issue that it would be otherwise.

7/19/2006 8:26:30 PM

there's already a tech talk thread.

Wasn't much discussion there.

If you want it in SB, have at it.

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7/19/2006 8:30:45 PM

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060622.html

7/19/2006 9:52:11 PM

http://www.savetheinternet.com

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0D86jb7neI

9/29/2006 12:59:28 PM

i hope you will all read both sides of things before you decide on this. its not "net neutrality", its "net protection from businesses doign what it takes to contribute and make money". it is an unnecessary anti-capitalist socialist regulation!

http://capwiz.com/sicminc/issues/alert/?alertid=8817151&type=CO

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9/29/2006 1:32:00 PM

^ Interesting.........The article keeps referring to the Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act with terms such as 'leftist' and 'liberal left', and this article is apparently from some site called rightmarch.com.... They're trying to draw the dividing lines of this issue as left and right, and secure support for it that way (b/c apparently some people are idiotic enough to support or oppose things based purely on whether they are labeled 'liberal' or 'conservative', without actually looking at the issue... ).

Yet if you look at the savetheinternet site and see where the senators stand (most of them are currently undecided), those who are for net neutrality are both democratic AND republican. All who are against it so far are republican (but that may change).

9/29/2006 1:50:31 PM

Well, you are not entirely correct. Strickly speaking, it is a matter of the Government stepping in to regulate the internet. Now, you are right that this is not a Republican vs Democrat issue, but only so far as most Republicans are not in favor of limited Governmental interference.

It is my opinion that once the Government gains the power to regulate the internet to protect against content pricing then it is only a matter of time until they use that power to regulate the internet to protect against content Congressmen just don't like.

Such slippery slope arguments aside, I do not feel a law protecting "Net Neutrality" would even be useful.

9/29/2006 4:41:00 PM

So with what Congress is proposing to do, that means that to get the same access and speed that I do now I have to pay more, or does it mean that when I try to access websites like say, this one, that it is going to be like it was back when I had dialup?

9/29/2006 6:29:21 PM

Hmm, neither.
Ultimately, your "speed" and your "rates" are between you and your provider, always will be. All this bill will do is provide yet another avenue through which companies can sue each other.

9/29/2006 9:48:52 PM

i just saw a horrid advert that is anti-neutrality!


they were claiming that net - neutrality means you pay!

pay what?



they were playing it off on multi-millionaires 'controlling' everything....

10/17/2006 12:01:59 AM