Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Save the Internet: More on net neutrality: "The cable and telephone industry see enormous revenues as operators of a private internet toll-road. How has the internet -- so diverse and unwieldly -- fallen into their hands? The answer is (of course) the Bush administration. Heavily lobbied by the cable and phone giants, the Bush Federal Communications Commission has been eliminating the rules that required the internet to operate in a nondiscriminatory manner."

We will have to watch to see if the Howard government will follow policies as destructuve as this.

Posted by Bernard at 9.5.06

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Agreed. The internet is great because college kids working out of their dorm room on the next big thing can do so without having to navigate burdensome government regulation. Do we really want that to change?!

8:59 pm
Anonymous said...

Internet providers will not end up trying to control the internet. It would not be smart business to anger everyone on such a large scale. Al they want to do is pay for creating a smaller network within the internet to provide faster services. This does not sound like taking control of the internet to me.

11:17 pm

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