Comments on: The Reality of Net Neutrality!

By: mark

mark — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:30:13 +0000

Yes I do shinobi, yes I do… thank you very much for your judgment.

Did you earn your 25 cents or whatever for that brilliant comment?

By: shinobi

shinobi — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:57:55 +0000

You blog like a dry drunk

By: mark

mark — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:22:04 +0000

Really? Here’s how any simple citizen needs to understand it Scott! I live in Savannah, Georgia, USA and I have two – HEAR THAT??? – Two choices and I’ve lived here for nine years! Don’t give me this crap! If I lose one I really don’t have another reliable broadband connection to resort to – the second choice is reliant on the first. And that is reality throughout our land. The lesser companies are reliant on the bigger outfits. If AT&T wanted to shut down or throttle Little Joe’s cable co. in Smalltown, USA they could – they’d just feed it down the infrastructure connections…

Stop laying this garbage on the citizens of this country… strawman my a**

Oh and BTW – I have more than 2,000 Blog entries on all my Blogs, don’t start spewing about facts to me or this country either. The people have the facts and folks like those you support are preying on their apathy.

What is truly unfair is the level of arrogance the Telcos have exhibited towards the American consumer, people like Ed Whitacre. What is even more unfair is the money those Telcos are throwing around in all the “right” places to get their desired results! Dynamic process getting better? For whom?

Greed, pure and simple, Scott, greed. Monopolistic Greed.

By: Scott Cleland

Scott Cleland — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:24:29 +0000

With all due respect you are using a straw man argument/fallacy to make your point.
Over a decade ago 95% of Democrats and Republicans voted for the Telecom Act that ended monopoly era and promoted competition as the law of the land. The steady increase in broadband choice from the monopoly dialup era in the US has been remarkable. It is easy to make assertions about how one wishes the world was, but in the real world broadband adoption/competition has happened faster than any other communications service in history. Moreover the US has more facilities based real broadband competition than any nation in the world. Americans have more real choices for broadband, and those choices increase all the time, than any other nation. Is it perfect? Of course not. we don’t live in a perfect world. But are we making historically fast and comparatively better progress than other nations towards boradband competition? YES! This is a dynamic process that is continually getting better. It is uniformed and unfair to say that because broadband is not perfect its bad.
I have blogged over 500 times on these topics in the last year and a half. these posts are filled with the evidence you need to understand these issues better on a factual basis.

Scott Cleland
Chairman of NetCompetition.org
an eforum or broadband companies
http://www.precursorblog.com