Net Neutrality Links
I’ve added these links to the Net Neutrality Page today.
How can we keep the Bells from committing net-neutricide?
How do you detect when the Bells are committing neutricide? It can’t be as simple as measuring throughput. There’s a host in China that I can’t reach from my ISP in London because of an incorrectly configured router at Sprint. That’s stupid and painful, but it’s not the same thing as anti-neutral. Distinguishing stupidity from malice from outside is going to be very hard.
One thing we don’t want is something like the SEC’s anti-insider-trading rules. Network neutrality rules won’t have much practical use if the only way to get them enforced is to convince a bureaucrat at the FCC to raid AT&T’s sales office, seize its files, and investigate your suspicions of wrongdoing. . .
Hyperbolic neutrality nonsense
Netflix founder Reed Hastings wants to move his companyââ¬â¢s video distribution system off the postal system and onto the Internet, where it would become a major consumer of bandwidth. Heââ¬â¢s worried about traffic-sensitive pricing, so he invokes the all-singing, all-dancing Wonder Principle, ââ¬Ånet neutralityââ¬Â, on the opinion pages of Americaââ¬â¢s most credulous newspaper:
Today, forces are at work to stake out future control of Web site traffic and eliminate the Internetââ¬â¢s longstanding openness. . . .
. . . While I can sympathize with Mr. Hastingsââ¬â¢ desire to have Fedex service for the price of a first class stamp, Iââ¬â¢d rather not be the one to pay the difference.
EXCLUSIVE: AT&T CEO’s political donations to net neutrality opponents
As AT&T continues its battles with net neutrality proponents on Capitol Hill this week, I thought it would be interesting to see where AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre has been spending his own money this campaign and election cycle.
I went to Opensecrets.org, and checked under “Whitacre.” . . . .
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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