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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose..

By any other word would smell as sweet." Shakespeare

Would results be the same if it read:

Net Neutrality is important because the power to set prices is the power to destroy. To paraphrase the John Marshall “The power to tax is the power to destroy.” There are two issues.

One issue is charging for what you do on the net not how much. The telcos wants charge some service providers more for the kind of service they offer. They claim they want to keep bandwidth under control. The counter to that is they already charge for bandwidth. Why would they charge more for transferring X amount of one thing then they charge for X amount of another thing. You already pay for the bandwidth you use, why set prices for the stuff you use it for?

Which brings us to issue two, the issue of creating a two tier net. The telcos own a great deal more then phone and internet lines. They own cable companies, movie studios, news companies, video game companies and others players on the net. Creating priority service for their own services and those who paid licensing fees would create a incentive to downgrade service for competitors.

Take the use case of a big video game company that competed with a game company owned by a telco. The big game company needs bandwidth to run their big online game. The telco could just charge them more for “using too much bandwith” that they already sold them. The big game company would have to pay or be forced to use they “low quality” lines where telcos don’t maintain service quality.

The idea is telcos that have a vested interest in not promoting growth will control availability and price.

Offer what you know or believe as congress confronts this very important issue.

Do you trust THIS Congress to decide ANYTHING on this particular issue? How do you think THIS CONGRESS will decide? I want them to leave the WEB alone don't you? I wouldn't trust this congress to take out the trash, if they all owned garbage companies.

I noticed the voting froze when I put my last posting here.

Net Neutrality, Patriot Act and Libraries (PBS, NOW) (video)
http://www.chomskytorrents.org/TorrentDetails.php?TorrentID=1415

Save The Internet (video)
http://www.chomskytorrents.org/TorrentDetails.php?TorrentID=1317

THANKS, rman... i'LL ADVERTISE IT HERE BEFORE IT VANISHES FROM THE BOARD! How about a kick and vote here, rman: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1524987