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Here’s FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein talking about Net Neutrality.
He was speaking to a great panel at the Politics Online conference
on the future of broadband in the US. It’s funny that the conversation
is not about technology, but simply what "openness" means. The current
Bush administration (represented by the guy on the right) thinks we should just let market forces figure it
out. But others consider broadband as a public service like telephone,
water, and roads. Without open guidelines, where’s the innovation and equal access when
there’s a duopoly controlling the access to the internet?
Scary thought – purpose of Comcast bandwidth caps is to “discriminate” by providing uncapped access to Comcast partners. Adelstein, give us rules to put teeth behind the neutrality principles!