Al Gore believes in net neutrality too
This passage comes from a well written and persuasive excerpt from Al Gore’s book The Assault on Reason on the Time website.
The same ferocity that our Founders devoted to protect the freedom and independence of the press is now appropriate for our defense of the freedom of the Internet. The stakes are the same: the survival of our Republic. We must ensure that the Internet remains open and accessible to all citizens without any limitation on the ability of individuals to choose the content they wish regardless of the Internet service provider they use to connect to the Web. We cannot take this future for granted. We must be prepared to fight for it, because of the threat of corporate consolidation and control over the Internet marketplace of ideas.
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Comment from Rothko:
[May 18, 2007]
I like that Al Gore guy. I’m secretly hoping he makes a late bid for the White House in ‘08 . . .
Comment from HOTI75:
[May 21, 2007]
Note from Hogtown: It seems to be fairly widely accepted that Hands Off the Internet are astroturfers, so you may want to take this comment with a grain or two of salt.
On the contrary, net neutrality is the true threat to the internet’s functionality. I’m a consultant for Hands Off the Internet and I’m still confused as to why people think the internet will come to an end without this made up, so called net neutrality. There was a great article in Legal Times last week that you mind find interesting.
“‘Net neutrality’ is a phrase that misleads more than it informs. The policy would require broadband service providers to treat all Internet content providers the same. The hitch is that all Internet content providers are not the same. To be transmitted efficiently and effectively, different types of online content have very different needs.”
http://www.law.com/jsp/dc/PubArticleDC.jsp?id=1178615081149