A promise made to be broken: Congress' latest plan for Net neutrality
Good news: We no longer need to worry; the neutrality of the Internet is safe, now and forever. Politicians finally listened to me and are taking serious, meaningful steps to fight the digital robber barons who threaten to devour our cyber freedom quicker than Eric Schmidt can down a plate of barbequed puppies.
The shining knight to whom I refer is Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.). This brave soul recently sent an open and strongly worded letter to Comcast asking the company to swear and cross its little black heart that it won’t implement a fast-lane Internet policy for additional revenue, like Verizon … or AT&T … or any of its other competitors.
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Do you really believe that Comcast would remotely consider a proposal that essentially asks it to pinky swear not to bathe in a giant Jacuzzi of money even if its competitors get away with the same strategy? You must also take at face value the NSA's claim that it recently cleared certain Samsung mobile devices as “safe” for use by government employees. If I’m a government employee who wants to keep my data protected, I’m now using anything but Samsung. Likewise, if I’m a Comcast Internet customer, I’m putting aside extra money today to pay the unavoidable price hike in my streaming content subscriptions tomorrow.
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Leahy gets to say he took concrete action, even if it required only 45 minutes of creative dictation from his bathtub. Comcast will either ignore it for the pointless sham it is or send a reply that sounds positive but technically makes no promises.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/2836754/cringely/promise-made-to-be-broken-congress-latest-plan-for-net-neutrality.html
