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• Monday, October 2, 2006 04:45 AM

  Hunh??

  "In late June, Net neutrality received a stunning rebuke in the Senate, when the Commerce Committee tied 11-11 on the Net neutrality provision to the telecom bill put forth by Snowe and Dorgan. The vote, says Scott, "sent a shock wave" through the horde of telecom lobbyists gathered in the congressional hearing room, fully expecting to see net Neutrality read its last rites."

  Are you sure that that shouldn't be "In late June, Net neutrality foes received a stunning rebuke..."

  It doesn't make sense with what preceeds and follows that paragraph (much less, it lacks internal consistancy...) Those who were shocked, i.e. "telecom lobbyists", should be the ones who were "rebuked", no?

  This issue still puzzles me a bit... Please let me know if my understanding/analysis is mistaken: If the "telecoms" get what they want, then you'll have to pay if you want your information to be delivered through the "fast lane" (you being the information providers). Information providers that can't/won't pay... They'll stay the same old, slow internet speeds that they have right now. Not that they'll be slowed down, just that they'll have to pay to have access to the fast lane... No? Sounds like they are whining and want a "free and fast" ride...

  Or are the telecoms going to neglect the regular internet and put their resources (including the government subsidies...) into the more lucrative "fast lanes" that they'll charge more for...?

  There is a lot of background info that is missing from this piece... Not all of us read WIRED or other geeky (but nice, hip and cool) sources of info... We just use the internet slow lanes and are happy enough with them. Please remember that and allow for the fact that everyone on Salon.com isn't necessarily in the choir when you start preaching to us.

  What does it say when this issue generates such a large response when torture, loss of habeus corpus protections for whomever the POTUS deems an "enemy combatant" is in the offing - and how many letters are going to our legistators about that?

  Thanks for your consideration.

  —Emyth Read Emyth's other letters
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