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Submitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2008-07-30 09:56
The Wall Street Journal's editorial writers totally get the net neutrality issue.
- Be sure to read their excellent editorial: FCC.politics.gov.
They understand net neutrality is all about:
- Regulating the Internet;
- An industrial policy pushed by high-tech rivals Google and pro-regulation groups like Moveon.org and FreePress; and
- A slippery slope towards government intervention and political mischief.
They were also dead on in understanding that no good deed goes unpunished in Washington -- i.e. the FCC majority is concluding that it is not reasonable for Comcast to deliver quality of service for most all its customers by minorly affecting the available speeds of bandwidth hogs when they congest the network. Unbelievable.
Kudos to the Wall Street Journal's strong defense of free markets and the free-market Internet.
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2008-07-30 13:24
Tim Wu's "OPEC 2.0" Op ed in the New York Times employs an embarrassingly inane analogy/metaphor. It also happens to be a factually bankrupt piece.
Why is Professor Wu's political analogy comparing bandwidth to energy, and a "bandwidth cartel" to OPEC -- embarrassingly inane?
- The vast majority of people understand that the price of gas has increased dramatically in part because the U.S. government has severely restricted supply by banning a variety of energy supply alternatives.
- The vast majority of people also understand that the price of bandwidth usage continues to plummet in large part because the U.S. Government has NOT restricted supply; on the contrary, it has encouraged free market competition, broadband investment and innovation that in turn -- has spurred vastly more supply of bandwidth.
In his op ed Professor Wu said: "In an information economy, the supply and price of bandwidth matters, in the way that oil prices matter: not just for gas stations, but for the whole economy."
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2008-07-31 16:23
Kudos to Cade Metz of The Register for exposing Googleopoly's new self-granted entitlement to take their customers money without permission -- called "automatic matching" in Adwords.
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