Text 33161, 118 rader
Skriven 2006-07-08 16:17:19 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 33124 av Torbjorn Mohn (2:211/37)
Ärende: Interesting POV from a US Senator.
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08 Jul 06 10:53, Torbjorn Mohn wrote to All:

Of course, this is pure bullshit from a Senator who knows nothing about
how the internet works, as you can see by reading his speech. And the
'clowns' referred to by the poster here, are just that, clowns. None of
them have a serious bone in their body, yet Mohn takes them seriously. :o)


 TM> In true Shannon style, let me quote a news article I came across the
 TM> other day. For no other purposes off course than purly informational.
 TM> :-)

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

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

 TM> Fasten your seatbelts, here goes:

 TM> ------------------------------------------------------------
 TM> Thursday, 29 June 2006
 TM> Your Own Personal Internet

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 TM> It's a series of tubes.

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

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

 TM> Do you know why?

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

 TM> [?]

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

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

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

 TM> The whole concept is that we should not go into this until someone
 TM> shows that there is something that has been done that really is a
 TM> viloation of net neutraility that hits you and me.
 TM> ----unquote-----
 TM> -------------------------------------------------------------------

 TM> Reading this, and also combining it with all the news information we
 TM> here get from credible USA news sources like; "The Daily Show w/Jon
 TM> Stewart", "The David Letterman Show", "The Tonight Show with Jay
 TM> Lenno" and "Late Night with Conan O'Brien", USA has their share of
 TM> interesting politcical clowns?

 TM> Have a nice summer.

 TM> Torbjorn

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