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Gun Owners and Techies Unite To Save The Internet


All we're asking for is statutory neutrality. And if you want it, "be ready to fight for it." It's now officially bi-partisan as groups and individuals as diverse the "Father of the Internet" Vint Cerf and Gun Owners Of America join together to prevent Congress from gutting net neutrality.

As Gigi Sohn, president of Public Knowledge says:

"The future of the free, open and innovative Internet we have all enjoyed through the years is not guaranteed . . . . If the bill before the House Commerce Committee gives control of the Internet to the telephone and cable companies, the Internet we have come to appreciate could well cease to exist, and it will be almost impossible to get it back."

Stay up to date as the campaign builds at the Save The Internet blog, and read the first post by Glenn Reynolds.


Sean Paul Kelley April 21, 2006 - 4:31pm
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Glenn Reynolds is a moron

Glenn Reynolds is a moron (and Cory Doctorow doesn't carry a lot of clout in my book either), but Vint Cerf is instant credibility. If there's a man alive who understands the tech side of the net, it's Cerf.

xfrosch April 21, 2006 - 5:43pm
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let me reiterate, though,

let me reiterate, though, that IP QoS is not arbitrarily deciding whose bits go fast, and whose go slow. It is providing priority delivery to customers who pay for priority delivery, no matter who they are.

People who want to stream live video over the net might need priority bandwidth to achieve satisfactory performance, but with multicast peering they would need a lot less of it. Thousands of times less.

xfrosch April 21, 2006 - 5:52pm
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Re: let me reiterate, though,

It is providing priority delivery to customers who pay for priority delivery, no matter who they are.

Well, I mean this isn't much of a concession when the bottom line is that you have to pay to play.

I think far more useful for connectivity would be to require competition by ISP's. I mean, we're really doing worse as far as bandwidth is concerned compared to the Europeans. Their DSL is much faster than ours! The only way you can explain this is that they require competition and we let the Telco monopolies do whatever they want.

Enforcing competition would do more far more to improve service than the sort of "bandwith discrimination" the telcos are promising.

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patachon April 22, 2006 - 1:41am
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net netrality

I pay for high-speed.
Am I still going to pay more for other sites?
Am I still going to pay more for searches?
I see too many ads on my searches.
Am I going to see more? Or is this just another grab by big business for more money (as if they didn't have enough) to control us?
When is free marketing going to be free?
It is going to be free when we are free to do as we are told!

kimmy April 21, 2006 - 9:50pm
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