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Net Neutrality 8-8-2006

August 8, 2006 by Liz

Net Neutrality Links

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

Even Giants Like Siemens Worry

Why would Siemens worry about net neutrality’s effects on smaller companies? Its customers aren’t necessarily big. “We sell to small and medium companies that are built on a low-cost structure and are net-dependent,” said [Ralph] Riley {Siemens senior executive] in Ann Arbor, Mich.

While the debate over net neutrality continues, users remain the forgotten stakeholders. Click here to read more.

He already sees potential for danger for his company’s markets and customers. “This would probably restrict much of the drive toward mobility that’s growing in American business,” Riley said. He said that with greater regulation, it could become impossible for users to roam freely from one carrier to another as they do now.

“What it would do is suppress much of the opportunity businesses have in expanding mobility,” he said. “How would you go anywhere without being charged too much or not getting access?”

But Riley said he also worries that too much regulation would be just as bad. . . .

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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NET NEUTRALITY PAGE

Filed Under: Business Life, Community, SOB Business, Successful Blog, Trends Tagged With: bc, Net-Neutrality, Ralph-Riley, Siemens

Net Neutrality 8-7-2006

August 7, 2006 by Liz

Net Neutrality Links

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

Online Advocacy: Same As It Ever Was?

The net neutrality fight has many parallels to anti-Communications Decency Act battle that raged beginning in 1995. Online activists were emboldened by free-speech issues and teamed with established companies to fight the legislation. The activists lost the fight in Congress and with President Clinton who signed the bill, but generated enough momentum and support that they rallied considerable resources to their side to win in the Supreme Court, which struck down the law.

The activists…

  • Got sites like Yahoo! to go black for a day (Black Thursday)
  • Organized online petitions that got more than 100,000 signatures
  • Drove direct constituent communications to members of Congress
  • If we can learn from recent history, the CDA battle taught us that the Web can quickly bring people together to marshal forces for a common cause, but that if the driving issue goes away, so do many of the participants. You need a pressing, immediate battle to really rally the troops. . . .

    –ME “Liz” Strauss

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    NET NEUTRALITY PAGE

    Filed Under: Business Life, Community, SOB Business, Successful Blog, Trends Tagged With: anti-Communications-Decency-Act, bc, Black-Thursday, Congress, Net-Neutrality, President-Clinton, Supreme-Court, Yahoo

    Net Neutrality 8-6-2006

    August 6, 2006 by Liz

    Net Neutrality Links

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

    Net Neutrality Tool Misses the Point

    . . . However, what some are missing is critical to this whole net neutrality debate. It’s not that we won’t know or be able to detect if we’re experiencing packet discrimination. Heck, we already know broadband providers are going to discriminate because they’ve told us they will—AT&T’s Whitacre even said it recently again, in case there was any question.

    No the issue is this: we’ll know the discrimination is happening, but the internet surfing public and web-based businesses will be unable to do anything about it. Why? Because last year the FCC gave up that discrimination complaint-process role and in Congress’ telecom bills (House and proposed Senate), even if the FCC changed its mind and wanted to do something, its hands will be tied. . . .

    –ME “Liz” Strauss

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    NET NEUTRALITY PAGE

    Filed Under: Business Life, Community, SOB Business, Successful Blog, Trends Tagged With: AT+T, bc, Ed-Whiteacre, FCC, Net-Neutrality

    Thanks to Week 41 SOBs

    August 5, 2006 by Liz

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    Successful and Outstanding Bloggers

    Let me introduce the bloggers
    who have earned this official badge of achievement,

    Purple SOB Button Original SOB Button Red SOB Button Purple and Blue SOB Button
    and the right to call themselves
    Successful Blog SOBs.

    I invite them to take a badge home to display on their blogs.

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      Candice

      comunisfera, observatorio de e-comunicacion

      emoms at home

      Knit 1 Blog Too

      Know More Media

     Stenstropedia

      you.got.foo

      YourCrea8tivity.com

    They take the conversation to their readers,
    contribute great ideas, challenge us, make us better, and make our businesses stronger.

    I thank all of our SOBs for thinking what we say is worth passing on.
    Good conversation shared can only improve the blogging community.

    Should anyone question this badge’s validity, send him or her directly to me. This award comes with a full “Liz said so” guarantee. It is endorsed by Kings of the Hemispheres, Martin and Michael, and backed by my brothers, Angelo and Pasquale.

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    Want to become an SOB?

    If you’re an SO-Wanna-B, you can see the whole list of SOBs and learn how to be one by visiting the SOB Hall of Fame. Click the link or visit the What IS an SOB?! page in the sidebar.

    –ME “Liz” Strauss

    Filed Under: SOB Business, Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, blog_promotion, dialogue, relationships, SOB, SOB_Directory, Successful_and_Outstanding_Bloggers

    Net Neutrality 8-5-2006

    August 5, 2006 by Liz

    Net Neutrality Links

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

    It’s Saturday. Check out this music video . . . it’s cool.

    We Are the Web

    Internet Video

    Mind If I Mislead You?

    Even though Mike McCurry is AT&T’s mouthpiece, not Verizon or Vonage’s, does it make a real difference? His credibility (mind if I mislead you?) has been challenged by Michael Masnick from Techdirt. Why? Because “he asserts that Google’s access to bandwidth doesn’t cost the company a dime.”

    Guess what? No matter which side of the Net Neutrality issue you may be on – you just had smoke blown up your arse! How’s it feel?

    –ME “Liz” Strauss

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    NET NEUTRALITY PAGE

    Filed Under: Business Life, Community, SOB Business, Successful Blog, Trends Tagged With: AT+T, bc, Google, Michael-Masnick, Mike-McCurry, Net-Neutrality, techdirt, Wearetheweb

    Net Neutrality 8-4-2006

    August 4, 2006 by Liz

    Net Neutrality Links

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

    Net Neutrality By the Numbers

    That leads us to the first number today, 60. That’s how many votes Stevens needs to round up before he can bring his bill to the floor. Senate rules require 60 votes to cut off debate on legislation. Otherwise, practically speaking, the bill is dead. So, the Senate leadership has told Stevens he must have the votes in hand to cut off debate before the bill will be brought up for debate. . . .

    [snip]

    The flip side of the issue is our second number, 41 (corrected from the earlier mathematically challenged version.) That’s how many Senators are needed to keep the bill off of the floor. The objective of those favoring Net Neutrality is not to kill the bill. Rather, we want to fix it and make it better, but the chances of that happening are better if negotiations take place and agreements are reached before the bill gets to the floor than after it gets to the floor. . . .

    –ME “Liz” Strauss

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    NET NEUTRALITY PAGE

    Filed Under: Business Life, Community, SOB Business, Successful Blog, Trends Tagged With: bc, Net-Neutrality, Ted-Stevens

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