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The most idiotic analysis of net neutrality you’ll ever want to read has been prepared by obscure consultancy Ramp^Rate: With the permanent barriers that the removal of net neutrality will erect for [gamers], the worst-case scenario includes three waves of change: * One or more mainstream ISPs will introduce excessive lag that will effectively prohibit [...]
The more things change: House Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi’s endorsement of Rep. John Murtha for majority leader, the No. 2 position in the Democratic leaderhsip, has roiled her caucus. “She will ensure that they [Mr. Murtha and his allies] win. This is hardball politics,” Rep. Jim Moran, a top Murtha ally, told the Hill, a congressional [...]
I like a good fight, no matter who’s fighting. Matt Stoller, the MyDD blogger who’s wasted so many electrons on the dubious cause of net neutrality, wrote a post immediately after the recent election in which he declared that the “netroots” legislative agenda begins and ends with his pet cause. A somewhat more serious thinker, [...]
According to reports from BBC and The Guardian, web inventor Tim Berners-Lee thinks his baby’s in danger. BBC News: He told the BBC: “If we don’t have the ability to understand the web as it’s now emerging, we will end up with things that are very bad. “Certain undemocratic things could emerge and misinformation will [...]
Geoff Nunberg, the leftwing political activist and linguist who wrote Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show, is upset with me for connecting George Lakoff with his former professor, Noam Chomsky: Many people assume that there’s some connection between Chomsky’s politics and [...]
The Citizen Journalist meets the Citizen Engineer and soon we’ll be drowning in data: The new NewAssignment.net site launches today and Tom Evslin writes about a very real networked journalism project to find whether there are the smoking guns of network (non)neutrality lurking in our ISP wires. We’ve already seen network neutrality discrimination claims made [...]
Finally, after all these years, I understand the Internet thanks to a comment on Techdirt: Woot! First! by Rstr5105 on Nov 2nd, 2006 @ 8:00pm This appears to be yet another case of the telcos trying to tell us how the internet is supposed to be withot bothering to take a second to trace the [...]
The Progress and Freedom Foundation has published an essay based on the comment that the great Alfred Kahn originally left on their blog. It’s eminently worth reading, as we’ve said before, and here’s the conclusion: Why all the hysteria? There is nothing “liberal” about the government rushing in to regulate these wonderfully promising turbulent developments. [...]
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