November 2, 2006

Net Neutrality 11-02–2006

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 7:05 am

Net Neutrality Links

I’m adding this link to the Net Neutrality Page.

Net Neutrality: Doc Searls : Saying What and How

I’ll cop to giving more weight to the future than to the present (because I prefer growth and dynamism over stasis). And to having a personal agenda: wanting the Net to be more than gravy on telephony or cable TV from the local duopoly. In both cases I want the marketplace to be free and open and not your-choice-of-silo.

How do we get that? I think we need something other than a choice between carrier regulation and carrier protectionism, which is how the two sides seem to line up right now.

As for evidence of harm, I’d cite the carrier’s asymmetrical bandwidth provisioning (not to mention port blockages) and tendentious arguments — “It’s what the market wants” — when the market has no other choice. The Net needs to enable and support production as well as consumption. It needs to support and not just prevent (or make difficult) new business in small and home offices. To name just two pro-market moves.

Want to know what you can do?
MA Bell Monopoly Versus the Free Internet — Tell the FCC Net Neutrality Is Not Negotiable

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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2 Comments to “Net Neutrality 11-02–2006”

  1. November 2nd, 2006 at 7:59 am
    katiebird said

    Good Morning Liz!

    Do you remember that it was your Net Neutrality posts that brought us together? Before I’d ever made a comment here I linked to your Net Neut. Pages at another site and you wrote to thank me.

    And they continue to be the best archive of information about the issue.

    I know the research takes a lot of time. And you haven’t missed a day for as long as I’ve been reading. Thank you so much for sticking with it so consistently.

  2. November 2nd, 2006 at 8:02 am
    ME Strauss said

    Thank you, Katie, and Good Morning!
    I do remember how we met. I think about that every now and then. It was very cool.

    By the way, I did miss one day — totally spaced out about posting what I had. I went back and considered predating the post, but the information wasn’t that good so I deleted it. :)

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