[svlug] Internet Neutrality Legislation

[Karen Shaeffer]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 05:42:33PM -0600, Skip Evans wrote:
> 
> "Today, a Republican-dominated House Committee 
> caved to telecom companies like AT&T and voted to 
> gut Net Neutrality, the Internet's First 
> Amendment.


Hi folks,

Well there is other news today, about AT&T.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060426/media_nm/telecoms_att_starzentertainment_dc_2

So, they are lobbying for legislation to force independent content
providers to pay them a tax for using bandwidth, while they will begin
offering much of the same content[1], after gaining an unfair advantage in
the market cost structures. And, in the end, the consumers will lose
big time. Net Neutrality seems to be very important to me.

[1] They'll be offering more and more such services, once they have
a cost structure advantage. It is the obvious path for growth in such
a business environment.
-- 
 Karen Shaeffer
 Neuralscape, Palo Alto, Ca. 94306
 shaeffer at neuralscape.com  http://www.neuralscape.com