The world without net neutrality

Fri. Oct. 30, 01:15pm EST

This is what will happen if the telecom lobbyists and John McCain get their way, more or less:

As Congressman Markey said today on a conference call with bloggers, "We’re now faced with a choice: Can we preserve this wildly creative network? Or do we allow network operators to change how the Internet has historically functioned."

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original post on The Seminal :: Independent Media And Politics, Fri. Oct. 30, 12:00pm EST

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Joshua Boulée Sat. Oct. 31, 11:18am EST#1

what a testament to your total lack of understanding of the free market. The government can only make things worse, like they did with the telephone regulations. AT&T now has to resell lines they bought materials for, installed, and maintain to third parties at a price where the third party can mark them up to get their cut and STILL undersell THE OWNER OF THE LINES! Absolute abomination.

Joe Spears Sun. Nov. 01, 01:37am EST#2

The rules on telecomunications (especialy the internet) is a bit muddied, take the reason Net Neutrality was brought up in the first place; a statement by several carrier that they want big name websites like Google and CNN to pay up or they would either limmit thier customers access to or block acceess all together.

The issue is how Internet service has been delivered since it went commercial, I pay for my access, and I (and most others i suspect) be upset if my favorite sites were suddenly blocked by BellSouth. Likewise on the business end CNN and Google pay hefty line fees to their service provider. I pay for access they Content Owners to make stuff available.

I think the fear is that some service providers want to see the internet became like cable TV, in that websites are channels to be subscribed to.

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