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You are hereQwestNo shadowy spectrum earmarks for Dotcom Billionaires!Submitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2007-06-06 11:33Like the discredited and shameful congressional practice of fleecing the American taxpayer with "earmarking" public funds for special interests, Frontline-Google and eBay-Skype are asking for the equivalent of special interest commercial "earmarks" from the FCC. It is outrageous that the FCC is actually entertaining these proposed special interest scams against the American taxpayer.
What am I talking about specifically? Two special interest spectrum/policy "earmarks" are getting a lot of press attention lately. Markey-like Net Neutrality bill fizzles out in Maine SenateSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2007-06-05 19:26Yet another state legislature has rejected passing a law mandating net neutrality -- this time in Maine, the home state of Senator Olympia Snowe, one of net neutrality's primary sponsors and highest profile proponents in the US Senate.
To let the net neutrality proponents save face, the Maine Senate passed a resolution, not legislation, that asks for a study on net neutrality to be completed next year.
I fully expect that Moveon.org and SaveTheInterent will continue to waste valuable state legislative time and resources on a problem they cannot even define or prove exists.
President candidate Huckabee blindsided on net neutralitySubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2007-05-31 10:02Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee was reported on a blog to have "supported" net neutrality in a conference call with bloggers.
This is another in a long line of supposed "endorsements" of net neutrality that result from NN proponents consistent misrepresentation of the facts and gross use of unsubstantiated allegations of a problem. Broadband data bills favor Big Government over competitionSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2007-05-25 18:40Senate Democrats are attempting to sneak through the back door what they cannot get through the front door of the "free and open" policy process. The Inouye "Broadband Data Improvement Act" is really a long term trojan horse for net neutrality and heavy regulation of broadband.
The clever ruse in this innocuous-sounding language is to redefine broadband competition as a total abject failure, and to declare broadband market failure, so the pro-regulatory types can regulate broadband becuase it is not competitive, or is at best a future duopoly. SaveTheInternet effectively endorses "digital socialism"Submitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2007-05-22 13:57SaveTheInternet and net neutrality proponents are losing their populist message discipline, and starting to show their true philosphical colors in blatantly calling for what is effectively "digital socialism." Andrew Rasiej, the founder of The Personal Democracy Forum, challenged Presidential candidates to become the next "Tech President" in a recent blogpost. It's important to note that his views are mainstream in the net neutrality movement as evidenced by the hearty endorsement they received by SaveTheInternet and by Wired Magazine Blog. Broadband mapping is a transparent pro-regulation policy schemeSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2007-05-18 11:05I personally think the Markey proposal to spend $36 million for a "national broadband map" is a monumental waste of taxpayer money and really bad "policy".
However, there is a not so hidden agenda lurking here.
The reason they want a national broadband policy is that they want a one-size-fits-all national policy like net neutrality which ensures everyone gets the same broadband service regardless of different needs, wants or means.
It still amazes me how Chairman Markey and his fellow Big Government/net neutrality proponents can not see that competition and not regulating the Internet has been a fabulous, albeit imperfect success for the United States. Broadband mapping is trojan horse for Big Govt. net regulationSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2007-05-17 18:04Calls by House Telecom Chairman Ed Markey and other Big Government proponents for better "broadband mapping" is simply a "trojan horse" for regulating the Internet. and more government intervention in the marketplace. Mr. Markey knows that calling for better data is generally an easy way to build consensus around an issue while staying "under the radar."
Make no mistake about it, this is Chairman Markey's first step in a grander scheme to have Big government play a much bigger role in the Internet and the digital economy. Outstanding FTTH council video on Net Neutrality/Internet ExafloodSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2007-05-16 14:06I just rewatched the outstanding Fiber to the Home Council's video on the Internet Exaflood.
If SaveTheInternet and FreePress was truly interested in a free and open debate on net neutrality they would want to send this outstanding informational video out to their email blast list. Frontline's Hundt thinks US wireless is too monopolized!Submitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2007-05-14 13:10I was shaking my head in disbelief when I read Comm Daily on Reed Hundt's interview on CSPAN's The Communicators series. Key quotes:
Excuse me? wireless monopolies? NAACP official slams net neutrality effect on low-income consumersSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2007-05-11 10:42I wanted to be sure folks saw what Greg Moore, Executive Director of the National NAACP Voter Fund said recently on net neutrality in a commentary piece in the Asbury Park Press:
Extremely well said! Pages |