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Hardware Firms Go Against Crowd on Net Neutrality

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the turncoats dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Some of the largest hardware firms in the world, like Cisco and 3M, have sent a letter to U.S. policymakers asking them not to be too hasty on mandated net neutrality laws." From the News.com article: "'It is premature to attempt to enact some sort of network neutrality principles into law now,' says the letter, which was signed by 34 companies and sent to House Majority Leader Dennis Hastert and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. 'Legislating in the absence of real understanding of the issue risks both solving the wrong problem and hobbling the rapidly developing new technologies and business models of the Internet with rigid, potentially stultifying rules.'"

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  1. In other words... by popeguilty · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...capitalists defend other capitalists' right to profit by harming consumers.

    Now sports.

  2. Corporatese-English by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 3, Funny
    'It is premature to attempt to enact some sort of network neutrality principles into law now,'

    Please don't do your job yet! Hear us out first.

    'Legislating in the absence of real understanding of the issue risks both solving the wrong problem and hobbling the rapidly developing new technologies and business models of the Internet with rigid, potentially stultifying rules.'

    You're all too stupid to know what to do. Let us educate you monkeys on the correct decision to make, so that we can keep doing the stuff we want to. We promise you'll come out of it looking good.

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  3. Re:well, what would you write... by jank1887 · · Score: 5, Funny
    DING DING DING DING, We have a winner!

    "
    Dear honorable congressmen and congresswomen,

    We, the network hardware manufacturers, took a bath at the end of the dot-com bubble due to (to simplify a bit) poor supply chain management (oversupply and the like). We are trying to make a compback, and find your net neutrality proposals quite troubling. We have spent a large amount of capital developing technologies that would be used, no, required, in a non-neutral network. In order to meet our revenue growth expectations, we need a non-neutral network. Please, don't be hasty. You could stifle **mysterious hand waving** technological innovation. You don't want to stifle technology, do you? Why do you hate technology? It creates jobs for Americans. You don't hate Americans, do you? Without jobs, how will they feed their children? Please, don't force a neutral internet, think of the children!

    Sincerely,
    The always altruistic corporations
    "