Net Neutrality hope?
After the travesty of the House selling out the American public, it is refreshing for the Senate to not pillage us immediately. The Senate Commerce Committee yesterday delayed their vote on the Telco bill and the Net Neutrality amendment.
Tim Berners-Lee summarized Net Neutrality best:
If I pay to connect to the Net with
a certain quality of service, and you pay to connect with that
or greater quality of service, then we can communicate at that level.
That’s all. Its up to the ISPs to make sure they interoperate so that
that happens.Net Neutrality is NOT asking for the internet for free.
It’s critical that businesses are not allowed to prioritize packets based on payola. Robert X. Cringley shows the unexpected degradation of traffic shaping in his article today, even when applied by a smart person. This is not good user experience!
I’m sorry, I just don’t understand how the consumer is supposed to be served by a company that guarantees no privacy and requires accepting this privacy violation as a condition of service. I have no other phone wires to my house. Senators, is this not the behavior of a monopolist?
It’s time to call or fax your Senator(s) if you have not done so already.
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