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[ NNSquad ] Re: Civil Rights Groups Wants P2P Throttling to Preserve Rights (or something like that)
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Vint Cerf wrote:
> these people don't seem to recognize that the interference of the
> broadband providers is an abridgment of their ability to speak.
> amazing. welcome to 1984, you have entered a time warp. Maybe this is
> the Bizarro planet.
I saw this one yesterday, and was impressed. Maybe these folks should
watch it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP_3WnJ42kw
Enjoy,
Scott
[ Not a bad cut-and-paste job. I didn't care much for the voiceover
"artist" though. It would have been nice if they had bothered to
acknowledge some of the major copyrighted source interview material,
e.g. "Google: Behind the Screen" and "Computer Networks: The Heralds
of Resource Sharing," etc.
-- Lauren Weinstein
NNSquad Moderator ]
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> On Mar 3, 2008, at 8:54 AM, Edge, Ronald D wrote:
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> > It is sort of hard to know where to begin when confronted with
> > ignorance like this:
> >
> > "The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should allow broadband
> > providers to manage their networks and slow "bandwidth hogs,"
> > despite concerns that such practices arbitrarily target some
> > customers, said a coalition of seven civil rights groups."
> >
> > "Net neutrality rules for broadband providers would protect
> > bandwidth hogs at the expense of other customers and civic
> > organizations, said the coalition, which includes the National
> > Black Chamber of Commerce, Latinos in Information Sciences and
> > Technology Association, League of Rural Voters and National Council
> > of Women's Organizations."
> >
> > "The coalition filed comments with the FCC Thursday in the agency's
> > inquiry into Comcast's slowing of some P-to-P (peer-to-peer)
> > traffic. "Regulations prohibiting network management risk
> > undermining free speech on the Internet by allowing P2P traffic to
> > overwhelm the network and prevent non-P2P traffic from reaching its
> > destination," the coalition said in its filing. "The effective
> > prioritization of P2P traffic would represent an altogether new
> > type of 'back of the bus' second-class status for our speech on
> > broadband networks -- and ought to be resoundingly rejected." "
> >
> > http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/022908-civil-rights-groups-
> > fcc-should.html?code=nldailynewsam125479
> >
> > Apparently I woke up in everything is opposite land this morning,
> > at least that is how I read their 'thinking', and I use the term
> > loosely.
> >
> > Ron.
> >
> > Ronald D. Edge
> > Director of Information Systems
> > Indiana University Intercollegiate Athletics
> > edge@indiana.edu (812)855-9010 http://iuhoosiers.com
> >
> > The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing.
> > If you can fake that, you've got it made.
> > --Groucho Marx
> >
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