Tuesday, May 9, 2006

Network Neutrality - Money Can't Buy Love

SBC, AT&T and others attempt to use their money to make sure "network neutrality" is not put into law.

Annalee Newitz said it better than I could myself in her recent column.

Although never written into US law, this principle holds that nobody's Internet traffic should be privileged over anybody else's -- to do so would be like letting an electricity company cut a deal with GE so that only GE appliances got good current. As it turns out, the neutral network provides an excellent platform for business models that cluster at the ends of the wires: Everything from Google and eBay to ISPs and music-downloading companies are based on the idea that money is made by shooting good stuff over the wires, not by making some wires better at getting good stuff.

Well said indeed. Lets show them that no amount of money can take the internet away from us.

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