[ NNSquad ] Re: "Tactics" (from IP) [ was: "Broadband Census ..." ]

[Brett Glass <nnsquad@brettglass.com>]

At 03:30 PM 8/9/2008, Lauren Weinstein wrote:

> Perhaps in the future you should warn us when you forward a message
> from "Brett Glass #2" as opposed to "Brett Glass #1".  BG#2, as
> below, now pushes for laws to ban certain antitcompetitive behaviors
> by large carriers that he believes (and I would agree) tend to
> negatively and unfairly impact his business.  But BG #1 -- the Brett
> Glass that we usually see who often refers to proponents of network
> neutrality with the term "network nutrality," argues against any
> laws or regulations that would protect consumers from unfair or
> anticompetitive tactics by those same ISPs.

This is a mischaracterization of my position. As I state at

http://www.brettglass.com/FCC/remarks.html

regulation of Internet service and Internet service providers
should consist solely of prohibition of anticompetitive business
practices -- just as there should be in ANY industry. Regulation
of network management practices would stifle innovation, competition,
investment, and deployment. As FCC Commissioner Robert McDoweell
correctly observed, engineers -- not bureucrats or legislators --
should solve engineering problems. See the URL above for more.

--Brett Glass