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Anyone catch the spoofs based on his Net Neutrality speech? Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhH1GD1ULJM. ("The internet is not a big truck. The internet is a series of tubes!") This guy's highly remixable! ;-)

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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 - 9:23pm

Net Neutrality is not a Big Joke

In its essence, "net neutrality" is an attempt by cable companies to prevent phone companies and the internet to compete with them in transmitting premium digital video. The cable companies are arguing that it is unfair for digital carriers to give priority to their own premium subscriber video transmissions in a way that will supposedly slow down other packet processing over their networks. It is as if bottled water companies wanted local water utilities not to pump drinking water to homes in the name of "fairness" to farm irrigation. The video is funny, but my understanding of Stevens is that the corrupt pork mongering bastard holds the correct free-market position on this issue.

Ted Keer

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Wednesday, August 1, 2007 - 11:25am

The solution to the problem of net neutrality is competition at the physical layer. We don't have very much of that. This is due largely to government interference already.

You have a right to a free press. That does not mean that anyone is obligated to sell you paper.

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Wednesday, August 1, 2007 - 11:44am