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Skriven 2006-07-08 10:53:22 av Torbjorn Mohn (2:211/37)
Ärende: Interesting POV from a US Senator.
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In true Shannon style, let me quote a news article I came across the other day.
For no other purposes off course than purly informational. :-)

Read the whole article here, also with links to audio of the actual speach:

http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/?entry_id=1512499

Fasten your seatbelts, here goes:

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Thursday, 29 June 2006
Your Own Personal Internet

The Senate Commerce Committee deadlocked 11 to 11 on an amendment inserting
some very basic net neutrality provisions into a moving telecommunications
bill.  The provisions didn't prohibit an ISP from handling VOIP faster than
emails, but would have made it illegal to handle its own VOIP packets faster
than a competitor's.

Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) explained why he voted against the amendment and
gave an amazing primer on how the internet works.

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There's one company now you can sign up and you can get a movie delivered to
your house daily by delivery service. Okay. And currently it comes to your
house, it gets put in the mail box when you get home and you change your order
but you pay for that, right.

But this service is now going to go through the internet* and what you do is
you just go to a place on the internet and you order your movie and guess what
you can order ten of them delivered to you and the delivery charge is free.

Ten of them streaming across that internet and what happens to your own
personal internet?

I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the
morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?

Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet
commercially.

So you want to talk about the consumer? Let's talk about you and me. We use
this internet to communicate and we aren't using it for commercial purposes.

We aren't earning anything by going on that internet. Now I'm not saying you
have to or you want to discrimnate against those people [.]

The regulatory approach is wrong. Your approach is regulatory in the sense that
it says "No one can charge anyone for massively invading this world of the
internet". No, I'm not finished. I want people to understand my position, I'm
not going to take a lot of time. [.]

They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again,
the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.

It's a series of tubes.

And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled,
when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by
anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts
of material.

Now we have a separate Department of Defense internet now, did you know that?

Do you know why?

Because they have to have theirs delivered immediately. They can't afford
getting delayed by other people.

[?]

Now I think these people are arguing whether they should be able to dump all
that stuff on the internet ought to consider if they should develop a system
themselves.

Maybe there is a place for a commercial net but it's not using what consumers
use every day.

It's not using the messaging service that is essential to small businesses, to
our operation of families.

The whole concept is that we should not go into this until someone shows that
there is something that has been done that really is a viloation of net
neutraility that hits you and me.
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Reading this, and also combining it with all the news information we here get
from credible USA news sources like; "The Daily Show w/Jon Stewart", "The David
Letterman Show", "The Tonight Show with Jay Lenno" and "Late Night with Conan
O'Brien", USA has their share of interesting politcical clowns?

Have a nice summer.

Torbjorn

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