http://www.kungfuquip.com/pdf-panel-on-net-neutrality/ Thoughts On Life In The Swamp Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:43:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.kungfuquip.com/pdf-panel-on-net-neutrality/comment-page-1/#comment-104 Successful Blog - Net Neutrality 5-17-2006 Wed, 17 May 2006 11:37:11 +0000 http://www.kungfuquip.com/archives/287#comment-104 [...] PDF Panel On Net Neutrality [via The Original Blog] Like it or not, the Internet is not a public entity. It is not a company for which others provide service and it is not a public good. It is a nebulous arrangement of interconnections between private networks. If the net neutrality guys would like the government to compensate the private companies that have invested hundreds of billions to make it work, and declare those pipes a public good, that’s fine. The tab will be staggering. [...] [...] PDF Panel On Net Neutrality [via The Original Blog] Like it or not, the Internet is not a public entity. It is not a company for which others provide service and it is not a public good. It is a nebulous arrangement of interconnections between private networks. If the net neutrality guys would like the government to compensate the private companies that have invested hundreds of billions to make it work, and declare those pipes a public good, that’s fine. The tab will be staggering. [...]

]]> http://www.kungfuquip.com/pdf-panel-on-net-neutrality/comment-page-1/#comment-102 The Original Blog » Blog Archive » PDF Panel On Net Neutrality Tue, 16 May 2006 19:03:53 +0000 http://www.kungfuquip.com/archives/287#comment-102 [...] The Personal Democracy Forum had a panel on net neutrality yesterday featuring notorious neut Susan Crawford, who displayed some remarkable flexibility according to this report by Michael Turk: To the content, all I can say is there were some misstatements made by Chris and Steve, but on the whole, they made the better argument. They stuck to facts and the discussion rather than making outlandish claims about things that might happen, maybe, someday, possibly. That seemed to be Tim Karr’s specialty. When challenged to name (outside of the Canadian cases which are irrelevant due to a different legal structure, and the Madison River case) one instance of telcos blocking access to content, he stared at the audience and made not sound. [...] [...] The Personal Democracy Forum had a panel on net neutrality yesterday featuring notorious neut Susan Crawford, who displayed some remarkable flexibility according to this report by Michael Turk: To the content, all I can say is there were some misstatements made by Chris and Steve, but on the whole, they made the better argument. They stuck to facts and the discussion rather than making outlandish claims about things that might happen, maybe, someday, possibly. That seemed to be Tim Karr’s specialty. When challenged to name (outside of the Canadian cases which are irrelevant due to a different legal structure, and the Madison River case) one instance of telcos blocking access to content, he stared at the audience and made not sound. [...]

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