Comments on: Net neutrality and the government as friend

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 14:50:11 +0000

For a somewhat whimsical, but rather accurate, presentation of the issues regarding Net Neutrality in a way that anybody can understand see this 11 minute video:

By: Scott Woolley

Scott Woolley — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 00:19:10 +0000

Walter,

I sense from your post that you might be open to the idea of joining the very small group of libertarians such as Tim B. Lee who back some basic net neutrality rules. Here’s a piece he wrote that might win you over:
http://www.vox.com/2014/5/6/5678080/voxsplaining-telecom

If you’re particularly interested in the nitty-gritty of how the market for bit-moving works, you might find this profile of Cogent Communications I wrote back when I was at Forbes interesting as well.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/1013/064.html

Best,
Scott Woolley

By: tim

tim — Sat, 06 Sep 2014 16:27:19 +0000

Thanks to policies pushed mostly by republicans access to the Internet for most has been in stagnation for years. Internet Service Providers (comcast, etc) enjoy monopoly power in most areas in the US. If we forced ISPs to open up their pipes to other Internet Service Providers then net neutrality would solve itself.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Sat, 06 Sep 2014 12:02:35 +0000

The stagnation is wholly due to big business inability to innovate. Google and Facebook would not exist if there was no Net Neutrality.