Broadband Politics - Latest Comments in The Daily Neut

Re: The Daily Neut

Faank — Mon, 08 May 2006 19:36:23 -0000

Not sure I feel as threatened as many NN opponents seem to be. I find nothing wrong with expanding our broadband infrastructure and capabilities, and introducing Americans to the next generation of Internet usage. Cluck makes a good point too - Google and Microsoft aren't exactly start-ups, and I find it hard to believe that either would ever act in the interest of companies that might one day become their competitors.

Re: The Daily Neut

cluck — Fri, 05 May 2006 11:56:45 -0000

I'm sure your list of supporters know a lot about networks...that doesn't mean that they're not wrong. This isn't a fight between the evil telcos and the "little guy." This a fight between the telcos and the software giants like Microsoft and Google. Let them duke it out in the market. And let the telcos build the networks that benefit all of us.

Re: The Daily Neut

Richard Bennett — Wed, 03 May 2006 14:27:55 -0000

I hate to break it to you, but Larry Lessig and Tim BL didn't invent the Internet. TBL's contribution, HTTP, was certainly a nice wrinkle, once we got the performance issues ironed out. But the larger point here is that many of the Internet's Old Guard are opposed to change, which isn't very surprising. Others are very much in favor of allowing the Internet to progress, along with all the other networks that didn't exist in 1980; David Clark for example.

But I appreciate the contributions that the Citizen Engineers are making to the debate, you certainly bring an earnest religious fervor that we seldom see in the world of streams and pipes.

Re: The Daily Neut

directorblue — Wed, 03 May 2006 09:48:09 -0000

Let's check the roster for those in favor of network neutrality: Bob Kahn, Vint Cerf, Lawrence Lessig... and now Tim Berners-Lee.

But, gosh, I guess they don't know anything about networks.