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"Net Neutrality" Coiner Tim Wu Is Running For Lt. Governor of New York

Posted by timothy on from the well-tim's-a-good-name dept.

speedplane (552872) writes Tim Wu, the popular Columbia Law Professor, author of The Master Switch, and the guy who coined the term Net Neutrality, is running for Lieutenant Governor of the great state of New York. He "has waged a shoestring anti-establishment campaign," that is well underway, and has even begun receiving attacks from the incumbent: "It has not always been smooth for Mr. Wu .... Surrogates for Mr. Cuomo have pounced on his admitted lack of 'message discipline' for comments he made comparing net neutrality to the suffragist movement (which he says were taken out of context) and sympathizing with Airbnb (which he says is 'fair game' because he has a 'wait-and-see approach' to regulating start-ups)."

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  1. What else does he do? by The+New+Guy+2.0 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Net Neutrality is another name for "Give me the Internet, not a subset." and is a key part of what a legitimate ISP does, as opposed to a censored ISP like sometimes exists in the USA and often exists overseas.

  2. hum, who cares about the internet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Humanity lived just fine without it before the 1990's and we could do it again. In the end it's these large monopolistic ISP's that are going to lose if they continue to charge the customer $$$ for streaming services and limit their bandwidth at the same time.

    Shit, reality is I don't really need the internet. Banking? I will just drive or walk to my fucking bank like I always do. Shopping? drive or walk to my nearest retail store even if I pay 34% markup. Entertainment? DVD's, BluRays, console gaming, which are still nice to watch and play I guess people to lazy to put their disc's into the dvd/bluray.

    But if you read a lot of articles off of the internet or emails you don't need fios or cable you can do it using cheap dsl or your phone's 3g/4g connection even if it's capped. Look at netzero or metropcs.

    All those Eastern European Countries that are labeled third-world have faster internet access at a very very low price compared to the u.s. Why is it that these first world countries like the U.S, UK, Canada, Australia have such shitty fucking internet? Monopoly.