Net Neutrality is Dead

Kos reports that Ron Wyden has put a “hold” on voting on the bill, which means a fillibuster may be in order.

The real question is why telecom companies get to control something the taxpayers paid for, starting with DARPA.

Chris, some Gnomedex attendee is soliciting q’s to ask Senator Edwards on Friday.. Nearly every suggestion is political. If I understood you correctly, the talk is not about politics per se (although Net neutrality certainly would be appropriate to ask him about), but rather how a politician views the use of technology to engage others to discuss politics.

That was just one battle in a long fight. There will be more battles.

Let’s talk to Sen. Edwards about it!

[...] Chris Pirillo has a good summary here, and it includes links to Todd Cochrane’s sky-is-falling reaction and the perspective of Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the internet. (He later changed his name to Al Gore, of course.)   [...]

THis is good news. I’ve blogged about this a bunch of times now, and the net neutrality crowd is naive at best. You want neutrality? You’ll get a “public utility” internet within the US, and all the FCC style rules that hit TV and Radio will follow right after.

The internet has been largely unregulated and private thus far, and it’s worked out fine. If it’s not broken, please don’t try to “fix” it.

I’d like to ask him, how can we get wireless and cheap computers everywhere so millions more can be on the Net too. It’s a resource that could and should be for all.

My blog is antiwar political. But I won’t ask Edwards about the war. Wrong forum for that and disrespectful to the huge work Chris and Ponzi have done.
.
Chris: As one who has helped organize hundreds of events and forums, some of them quite contentious, I suggest you may need a strong moderator for this. Also, to prevent microphone hogs, someone should carry the mic, point it at the person, but *never* give it to them.

Just a bit of hard-learned advice, and something you may already know.

As for Net Neutrality, yeah, like I said, more battles coming. But in my view, there’s been so much blather on all sides that I’m not sure what I think any more.

[...] Edwards and Gnomedex. Time to fire some people in congress. [Chris Pirillo] posted by geeknews at 01:27 AM TrackbackPings [...]

Your idea of a “neutral” internet is an “internet government” ? Gimme a break Chris.

So bored with this. It’s not about neutrality it’s about competition. The Telcos and CableCos are operating within a government controlled and sponsored monopoly. Just as other countries have discovered, it’s clearly time for the USA to wake up and shift the rules a bit to reduce the monopoly and introduce some artificial competition. Things like LLU and forcing the owner of the last mile cable to sell wholesale bandwidth. And this should be done not for the customer but for the economy as a whole. Needless to say the Telcos and CableCos will fight this with their lobbying and spin as they try to prop up the old dinosaur business models.

But frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn. If the USA doesn’t get it, we’ll just treat them as damage and route round them.

Know More: Net Neutrality Just heard fromChris Pirillo(via the blogosphere - no I don’t know him well personally but I have met Chris at SESNY06) that Net Neutrality died this afternoon in Washington. Actually, the US Senate killed Net Neutrality in a narrow vote over strict Net Neutrality rules.

Shutter up the Internet and Pull the plug for 72 hours and then let people voice their opinion of Net Neutrality. You can bet this is a question I am gonna ask Senator Edwards and Gnomedex. Time to fire some people in congress. [Chris Pirillo]

[...] Net Neutrality is Dead [...]

Gnomedex Topic – Net Neutrality…

There is a lot of freedom at Gnomedex for the discussion leaders to address the topics that are on their minds. I will use my session at 1:30 tomorrow to address the current state of affairs with respect to the Net Neutrality debate. Yesterday’s vote…

[...] » Chris Pirillo is not impressed: "I have one word for y’all: Ouch … Sometimes I just don’t understand why the Internet doesn’t have its own government. Can’t we make ourselves our own country or something? Wasn’t it started started with the idea of easy, equal access for everybody? I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this point. Someone, please wake me up? Todd’s right: this is a national emergency. I’ll take his assertion one step further: this is an INTERNATIONAL emergency." [...]

Chris: “Wasn’t it started started with the idea of easy, equal access for everybody?” No, it was started so bright folks working on defense projects could more easily collaborate on weapons projects.

– that is, high-speed service up to each and every home. It costs a pretty penny to do this… [IMG close quote] GREED… “The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed — for lack of a better word — is good.” Chris Pirillo says:[IMG open quote]Net Neutrality is Dead Sometimes I just don’t understand why the Internet doesn’t have its own government. Can’t we make ourselves our own country or something? Wasn’t it started started with the idea of easy, equal access for everybody? I don’t know whether to laugh or

Fly To Your Local Comic Book Store For Free Comic Book Day tech news Related Content: Tool Maniac Community Tech Blog Blank Intentionally Front Page News Bubble Thanks, Jon Snyder CNET News.com’s Blog 100 Gnomedex 3.0 I’m So Worried Net Neutrality is Dead [IMG]