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August 3, 2006

Net Neutrality 8-3-2006

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 6:24 am

Net Neutrality Links

I’m adding these links to the Net Neutrality Page.

Stevens Scrambling for Anti-Net Neutrality Votes

Stevens is still trying to force a vote on his inaptly titled telco give-away bill, the Communications, Consumers’ Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006 (S. 2686). But he’s not having much luck so far. . . .

he article singles out Santorum, DeWine, and Chafee as resisting efforts to push the bill to the floor before the elections. Not only are they hearing from constituents on this issue, they are raking in some serious cash from moneyed interests on both sides of the debate. They really don’t want to have to vote on this before the election. . . .

AT&T’s Whitacre: ‘Nobody Gets a Free Ride’

“This thing is growing at a rate that nobody would imagine,” [AT&T CEO Ed] Whitacre said of the market demand for bandwidth. He said AT&T networks are now handling 5.6 Petabytes of data every day. “There’s more and more content, and you need more and more bandwidth, and somebody’s got to build it.”

“If you build it, you have to make a return on that,” he continued. “Nobody gets a free ride, that’s all.”

This kind of language, of course, leaves open the possibility that AT&T will (or already does) offer some of its customers a better ride across its access networks in exchange for fees. But it doesn’t necessarily mean the provider would block content that it disagreed with, which is a fear that most net neutrality backers discuss the most.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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4 Comments to “Net Neutrality 8-3-2006”

  1. August 3rd, 2006 at 11:22 pm
    vaspers the grate said

    Liz, are you for or against Net Neutrality? I am for it and a bit of an activist.

  2. August 3rd, 2006 at 11:24 pm
    ME Strauss said

    I am for Net Neutrality. I post both sides of the story because I need to have all of the information always.

  3. August 3rd, 2006 at 11:31 pm
    vaspers the grate said

    Yeah, whenever I believe strongly in something, I always want to read the most harsh, hateful, and troubling opposite opinion.

    I figure I may be wrong, or not fully informed. Often the truth or best solution is in the middle, you know?

    I cant’ understand close minded people who refuse to even listen to another viewpoint. If you can rebute the most scathing attack, you are so much stronger and better able to advance an idea or cause.

    thanks for your quick reply to me!

  4. August 3rd, 2006 at 11:34 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hey,
    Thanks for understanding why I put up both sides of the story. Doc Searls nailed me for confusing the issue. I figure that means that means I must be picking enough on two sides to have some balance.

    I hate it when things aren’t fairly presented.

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