Frank,
Yepper, and here is yet another article":
Center for Individual Freedom
Dear Friend:
Why after so many years of fighting to keep the Internet largely
free of
regulation and taxation are some lawmakers and Internet companies now
advocating for increased regulation of the Internet?
The United States House of Representatives may consider a provision
that
will lead to regulation of the Internet. Please contact your
Representative
in Congress and Majority Leader Boehner and ask them to keep the
Internet
free of regulation.
Use the hyperlink below to send your personalized letter to your
Representative in Congress and Majority Leader Boehner today!
http://capwiz.com/cfif/issues/alert/?alertid=8574316&type=CO
Last week, several news publications -- citing anonymous sources --
reported
that new legislation to regulate the Internet (so-called "net-
neutrality")
will be considered as part of a telecom reform bill currently being
debated
in Congress.
Over the past few months, proponents of so-called "net-neutrality"
regulation have been using scare tactics with the general public
and our
elected officials - demanding legislation for a problem that
doesn't even
exist! Even the Wall Street Journal calls these proponents' tactics
"silly"
and dismisses the notion that it is the "end of the Internet as we
know it."
Some major corporate interests like Google and Yahoo! would like
for you to
believe they are David facing Goliath -- claiming that broadband
providers
like Comcast, Cox and AT&T will keep you from accessing their
products.
Nothing could be further from the truth!
Never, in the history of the Internet, has a broadband provider
blocked a
customer from accessing their Yahoo! Mail or Google search engine.
Yet,
these companies want Congress to enact legislation that will
protect them
from this non-existent problem.
Ironically, these calls for the government to become the Internet's
traffic
cop are being led by companies like Google, which only a short time
ago made
headlines when it chose to cooperate with the Communist leadership
of China.
Remember when Google caved to the Chinese government and agreed to
block
access to all information and websites that speak about freedom and
democracy? When they agreed to censor all information that discusses
Tiananmen Square and independence for Taiwan - or anything else
that can be
interpreted to go against the interests of China's Communist
leadership?
Can you believe it's supposed conservative lawmakers who are now
cow-towing
to these interests and offering to legislate and regulate the
Internet in
response to these ridiculous demands?
We have witnessed the success of the Internet and all that it does:
brings
families closer, grows economies, creates a new generation of
entrepreneurs
and increases access to information for people all over the world.
All this
with little, if any interference from the government.
The Internet must remain free from government regulation and taxation!
Contact your Representative in Congress and Majority Leader Boehner
today!
Ask them to reject calls to regulate the Internet. And, ask them to
urge
their colleagues to do the same.
Use the hyperlink below to send your personalized letter to your
Representative in Congress and Majority Leader Boehner today!
http://capwiz.com/cfif/issues/alert/?alertid=8574316&type=CO
Sincerely,
Jeff Mazzella
President
Center for Individual Freedom
www.cfif.org
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Of Frank Coluccio
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To: nycwireless@lists.nycwireless.net
Subject: RE: [nycwireless] New Yorker Article [was:
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When a topic like network neutrality begins to appear in
places like the "Talk of
the Town" column of The New Yorker Magazine, then you know
it's only a matter of
time before it hits the mainstream of public awareness. And
that's not such a bad
thing.
Begin article:
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NET LOSSES
By James Surowiecki
march 13, 2006
"In the first decades of the twentieth CENTURY, as a national
telephone network
spread across the United States, A.T. & T. adopted a policy
of "tiered access"
for businesses. Companies that paid an extra fee got better
service: their
customers' calls went through immediately, were rarely
disconnected, and sounded
crystal-clear. Those who didn't pony up had a harder time
making calls out, and
people calling them sometimes got an "all circuits busy"
response. Over time,
customers gravitated toward the higher-tier companies and
away from the ones that
were more difficult to reach. In effect, A.T. & T.'s policy
turned it into a
corporate kingmaker.
"If you've never heard about this bit of business history,
there's a good reason:
it never happened. Instead, A.T. & T. had to abide by a
"common carriage" rule:
it provided the same quality of service to all, and could not
favor one customer
over another. But, while "tiered access" never influenced the
spread of the
telephone network, it is becoming a major issue in the
evolution of the Internet.
Until recently, companies that provided Internet access
followed a de-facto
commoncarriage rule, usually called "network neutrality,"
which meant that all
Web sites got equal treatment.
"Network neutrality was considered so fundamental to the
success of the Net that
Michael Powell, when he was chairman of the F.C.C., described
it as one of the
basic rules of "Internet freedom." In the past few months,
though, companies like
A.T. & T. and BellSouth have been trying to scuttle it. In
the future, Web sites
that pay extra to providers could receive what BellSouth
recently called "special
treatment," and those that don't could end up in the slow
lane. One day,
BellSouth customers may find that, say, NBC.com loads a lot
faster than
YouTube.com, and that the sites BellSouth favors just seem to
run more smoothly.
Tiered access will turn the providers into Internet gatekeepers."
Continued at:
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/060320ta_talk_s
urowiecki
------
Frank A. Coluccio
DTI Consulting Inc.
19 Fulton Street
South Street Seaport
New York, NY 10038
212-587-8150 Office
347-526-6788 Mobile
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