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[ NNSquad ] Re: Public Knowledge's Peak Bandwidth report
Re: Public Knowledge's Peak Bandwidth report OK gang. Judging from some of the messages showing up in the NNSquad input submission queue, some readers may have missed the fact that Public Knowledge's posting earlier this morning, referring to: http://j.mp/eHSY8F (Public Knowledge) was their rather elaborate April Fools joke. This probably should have been apparent from the position of that posting vis-a-vis PK's traditional orientation on these issues, but anyone actually reading the referenced report would have found discussion of the "FCC's National Semaphore Plan," IP Datagrams on carrier pigeon deployment (presumably based on the 1 April 1990 RFC 1149, updated 1 April 1999 as RFC 2549), and other goodies. This is sort of why I swore off sending out any April Fools stuff of my own today, preferring instead to cause confusion at other times. And yes, as I said earlier, that "Emergency" meeting by Congress to vote against Net Neutrality was no joke. We're in three wars. In the first week of the Libya War we apparently blew away close to a billion U.S. dollars. And Congress is spending its time voting against milk-toast rules that represent only a tiny step toward the sorts of protections that consumers actually need -- enriching the dominant ISPs even more, while massive unemployment and underemployment persist, like malignancies destroying the core of this great country, while some of the very wealthiest few suck ever more of this nation's wealth into their personal portfolios. I wish that *were* a joke. --Lauren-- NNSquad Moderator