NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] David P. Reed, nnsquad member, kicks ass at the FCC hearing!!
Wow!
The FCC is going to post video on its site in 24-48 hours. I suspect
they'll be somewhere off of this page: http://www.fcc.gov/realaudio/
I've been listening to the audio since the first minute, and reading the
blogs. It's entertaining! David Cohen, Comcast VP, got an inexplicable
explosion of applause after his rather toothless presentation. I was
confused by that, until some of the FreePress folks blogged that Comcast
employees had arrived early and in force and occupied most of the chairs --
locking hundreds of others out of the hearing.
Oh well, on to more positive things --
It takes the meeting 4 hours and 22 minutes before David P. Reed kicks some
real ass.
- The Internet has standards.
- The standards-making process is alive and healthy.
- It's not the Internet Access Provider's job to create the internet. If
they change how the Internet works, then they're no longer offering the
Internet.
He had much more to say, but I was already fired up by what he had said
already -- so watch the video when it gets posted!
Robb Topolski
[ David is in fact not only a member of NNSquad, but also
a founding signatory of the project.
-- Lauren Weinstein
NNSquad Moderator ]