----- Forwarded message from David Farber <[email protected]> ----- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 11:21:28 -0500 From: David Farber <[email protected]> Subject: [IP] election and NN Reply-To: [email protected] To: ip <[email protected]> E61AD4BE-EB71-11DF-B98C-A5BBF559ED1D:
Begin forwarded message: From: Chris Beck <[email protected]> Date: November 8, 2010 11:01:21 AM EST To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IP] with editors comment Reinvigorated push to protect the Internet -- the "Open Internet" with editors comment Hi Dave, Brett seems to have overstated the relationship between the election and net-neutrality: On 7 November 2010 01:32, David Farber <[email protected]> wrote: > The people of the United States have made their views on all of this > abundantly clear. > In the recent election, every legislator who signed the PCCC "network > neutrality" pledge > at http://netneutralityprotectors.com/ lost his or her election. Could there > possibly be a > stronger or clearer public mandate not to regulate the Internet? Well, yes. Those were all democrats running against Republican incumbents in heavily Republican-favoured distrcits: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101105/02472511738/sorry-net-neutrality-simply-was-not-an-important-issue-in-this-year-s-election.shtml the PCCC pledges were not from existing Representatives, but those trying to get elected to Congress against incumbents -- and nearly every one came from historically Republican districts. In other words, nearly every one of those Democrats who "lost," were guaranteed to lose no matter what. On top of that, Broadband Reports took a look at a couple of other "net neutrality" pledges by folks actually in Congress, and noted that a bunch of Democratic Representatives who signed an anti-Net Neutrality pledge still lost their races, and of those who signed on to a pro-net neutrality list, *not a single Democrat on that list lost their re-election bid.* Cheers, Chris -- [Christopher Beck] [http://pacanukeha.wordpress.com] Say it with me: you don't get good government from people who think government is the problem. ------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message -----
