[ NNSquad ] Re: FCC Hires Industry Shill to Develop US National Broadband Plan

["George Ou" <george_ou@lanarchitect.net>]

Net Neutrality proponents for years have been trying to say that Net
Neutrality is the fight against Net Censorship all the while using bogus
examples of net censorship.  Moreover, many of the Net Neutrality activists
have claimed and continue to claim that the Internet is supposed to be
stupid as they misrepresent and misunderstand the End to End principle.
Some of the Net Neutrality bills like Wyden completely outlawed
prioritization, while others bills made prioritization technology impossible
to implement by making it illegal to charge for the service and do the
necessary budget enforcement since you can't base decisions on the source or
destination.

So no Lauren, it's not just some "hack" argument which is a real cheap shot
against Bennett on your part.  Bennett has been taking his position on
principle without pay for several years.  I don't see you referring to
others LONG TIME hacks as "hacks" and it shows your obvious bias.  The
assertion that Net Neutrality would make the Internet stupid is an accurate
and deserved one.  Even Larry Lessig has had to come out and say that he
opposes Net Neutrality bills like Markey because it outlaws differentiated
services on differentiated pricing.  Tim Berners-Lee has always believed
that differentiated pricing are perfectly acceptable, but he's willing to
compromise his own principles and support regulation that would in fact
outlaw differentiated pricing.

The Internet and broadband even under common carrier regulation never
prohibited differentiated pricing and service levels.  This is a myth
propagated by Net Neutrality regulation proponents to create a version of
the Internet that never actually existed.



George

-----Original Message-----
From: nnsquad-bounces+george_ou=lanarchitect.net@nnsquad.org
[mailto:nnsquad-bounces+george_ou=lanarchitect.net@nnsquad.org] On Behalf Of
Lauren Weinstein
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 11:07 PM
To: nnsquad@nnsquad.org
Subject: [ NNSquad ] Re: FCC Hires Industry Shill to Develop US National
Broadband Plan


> From: Richard Bennett <richard@bennett.com>
> Date: August 29, 2009 7:47:24 PM EDT
....
> The concern of the "net roots" faction Bowers represents seems to be that
a 
> diverse and talented FCC team will not endorse the simplistic vision of 
> "all packets are equal" internetworking they've been trying to foist off
on 
> the American people since the net neutrality debate started. 

As far as I'm concerned, claiming that net neutrality advocates are
insisting that "all packets are (or should be) equal" is the same sort
of inaccurate, derogatory canard used by the political hacks who have
been trying to equate end of life counseling with "Nazi-like death
panels."

In both of these sorts of situations, the individuals making such
claims know (or should know) full well that they are spouting
self-serving bosh that misrepresents the actual positions of their
adversaries.

--Lauren--
NNSquad Moderator