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Public Knowledge has been one of the knuckle-draggers puffing the net neutrality issue out of all sane proportion, so it was surprising to read a rational article on the subject on their blog. Written by guest blogger Phil Weiser, it valiantly attempts to separate fact from fiction. See Net Neutrality: Back to the Drawing Board:
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Archive for September, 2006
Net Neutrality: Back to the Drawing Board
September 25th, 2006 
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One Web Day
September 22nd, 2006 Richard Bennett So today all of us cyber-surfing netizen internauts are supposed to proclaim our love for on-line life and tell what it the web means to us. To me it means mediocrity and tedium, with lots of room for improvement.
Here’s to making the web worthwhile and not just a place to go shopping, distort reality, and [...]
Tech companies to Senate: No Neut Regs
September 20th, 2006 Richard Bennett This letter from 100+ tech companies to the Senate on the neut regs is great.
First, the Internet has benefited greatly from the relative absence of regulatory restrictions, which has allowed content businesses to grow and prosper. Congress has wisely refrained from burdening this still-evolving medium with regulations, except in those cases where the need for [...]
AeA report: False and Misleading
September 14th, 2006 Richard Bennett The crack research team at the American Electronics Association has issued a report on net neutrality that sets a new bar for rank absurdity in public policy discourse. The report simply parrots the most outrageous, counter-factual and a-historical claims made by the professional protest groups that have assembled to promote this dubious cause, and then [...]
Science makes his head hurt
September 4th, 2006 Richard Bennett Once upon a time, I was very fond of the Blogs for Bush blog. I believed it was important for America that Bush was re-elected, as I had no trust in John Kerry’s ability to hold a thought long enough to act on it, any thought, any action. And if I had it to do [...]
