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Real Info on “Net Neutrality”
By Larry Hendrick | May 18, 2006
I have been thinking about this whole net neutrality issue and reading different stories with the intent of writing an article about it. I have been beat to the punch with this great article at Opinion Journal. The author does a great job and covers most of the details about this “much ado about nothing” issue.
This is a must read if you are interested in what all the hubbub is all about, and is finally a voice with reason behind it.
OpinionJournal - Featured Article
If ever there was a solution in search of a problem, “Net neutrality” is it. Sometime recently, someone got up on the wrong side of bed and decided that the freedom that has been the hallmark of the Internet now threatens to destroy it.Suddenly the Internet service providers, which you always thought were there to let you get onto the Net, are going to keep you off it unless the government imposes new laws and regulations. Congressional hearings have been held. Vint Cerf, Internet progenitor and now Google evangelist, evangelizes. Thus has the cause of Net neutrality in its current incarnation become a new and ardent crusade of the political left.
Net neutrality is generally billed as a way of reining in Internet service providers (typically phone and cable companies), some of whom have made noises about charging content companies extra fees for guaranteeing priority to certain kinds of services. Net neutrality is supposed to save us–and Google and Yahoo–from this supposedly unconscionable behavior. Its effect would be more damaging.
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