Netroots Net Neutrality "Lobbying" (was: Re: [asterisk-biz] Iptables rule help)

[Henry J. Cobb]

"Matthew Rubenstein" <email at mattruby.com> wrote:
> 	The House and Senate telecom committee chairs are now all Democrats
> (tiny possibility that some political fluke will threaten a Democratic
> Senate majority), after the Democratic takeover in last month's
> elections. So the current telecom bill is dead in committee. The cableco
> and telco bribes/lobbying sunk into that bill are all now on Plan B. So
> there is now a chance to reboot the telecom bill to protect Net
> Neutrality (equal accessibility by competitors to quality carriage
> regardless of content). Write a short, polite *paper* letter to your
> House/Senate reps, especially if they're on/chairing a telecom committee
> mentioning "Net Neutrality" and whatever other familiar (to them)
> buzzwords with which you agree.

I have a little more faith in the American Consumer.

After just a few days dealing with a locked down Disney-only Net, the
customer will decide that it's a Mickey Mouse operation and go elsewhere.

After enough dumb rich people have become dumb poor people while trying to
foist such silliness, the invisible hand of the market will slap them
silly.

Unless of course it all gets writen into law so that new entrants into the
market are scared off by the regulation costs.

-- 
Henry J. Cobb
http://www.io.com/~hcobb/