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Battle Lines Drawn Over Net Neutrality
InfoWorldMike writes "As the U.S. Congress argues the pros and cons of network neutrality, many companies doing business on the Internet say their very futures may be at stake. Net neutrality supporters want new laws prohibiting Internet providers from blocking or degrading traffic from their competitors' networks. Determining the full effects of Net neutrality can be difficult, however, in part because the concept is hard to define precisely. Most of the debate has taken place inside the Washington Beltway, where lawmakers and outsiders have proposed several different versions. InfoWorld has a Special Report up exploring the issue with a debate between experts Bill McCloskey and Jon Taplin and some of the news that has captured the issue as it developed."
Oh that's fine. The internet's made of tubes after all.
Welcome our new profit-driven corporate overlords.
Oops.
That's not a new development.
Nothing to see here.
If a chair is thrown in a forest, and there are no witnesses, did Ballmer still do it?
As the U.S. Congress argues the pros and cons of network neutrality
I can hear the auction house sounds from here.
It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.
I had my staff send me several spare Internets in case the big telcos broke this one. I've plenty of them stored in the basement now so if anyone needs one, I'll Fedex it over for a reasonable price.
See, there's no reason to worry!
The sound of a large switch being thrown was overhead near the Mountain View, CA, headquarters of search giant Google this afternoon. A local robed old guy was quoted as saying, "It's as if millions of miles of dark fiber suddenly came online, and then telcos everywhere were suddenly silenced."
I know what you mean. Somebody sent me an internet a few days ago, and I didn't get it till now. I think the tubes on my own personal internet are being clogged by those stupid people who send WHOLE BOOKS in them.