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You are hereFreedom of SpeechSigns of calculated retreat by net neutrality proponents at House hearing on Markey Bill?Submitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2008-05-06 18:34I have to admit that I was surprised by all the back-pedaling and calculated retreat by net neutrality proponents at the House Internet Subcommittee hearing on Chairman Markey's net neutrality bill HR5353. Net neutrality proponents were clearly on the defensive, proactively responding to criticisms of the bill and not spending much time touting its benefits. Is this House less supportive of net neutrality than last Congress'? Markey Bill has only 11 co-sponsors...Submitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2008-05-05 11:52It's surprising that in the three months since Chairman Markey introduced his new net neutrality bill HR 5353, only nine members joined the original co-sponsors of Chairman Markey, and Rep. Pickering, who is a retiring Republican from Mississippi. And all of the new nine are Democrats. (see the list at Thomas.gov)
What is one to conclude that only 11 of 435 members of the House, only 10 of 234 House Democrats only 1 of 199 House Republicans have signed onto the latest net neutrality legislation three months after its introduction and almost two years after the issue burst onto Congress' radar? PFF's Sydnor brilliantly exposes Lessig's "quasi-socialist Utopianism" advancing net neutralitySubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2008-04-30 12:40Tom Sydnor of the Progress and Freedom Foundation has done a brilliant analysis of Professor Larry Lessig's book "Free Culture" in the important context of Professor Lessig's other works.
Let me highlight some gems:
First, his conclusion:
Buzz is Chairman Markey is planning a House hearing on Net Neutrality next weekSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2008-04-29 14:32The buzz is that House Subcommittee Chairman Markey is planning a hearing on net neutrality for Tuesday May 6th (probably AM) -- if they can line up their witnesses, which are still TBD.
I wouldn't be surprised if Professor Lessig is asked to testify yet again, after testifying before the Senate last week and the FCC the week before. Must read piece by The Register's Andrew Orlowski: "Man discovers his net isn't neutered"Submitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2008-04-25 12:27Sometimes an analysis is so outstanding, all you can say is "Read it!" Red State documents disturbing LessiGoogle "discrimination/bias" against ChristiansSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2008-04-25 11:24Anyone who considers themselves religious should read Red State's illuminating and shocking post, which documents an anti-Christian discriminatory bias by Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig and his extremely close ally -- Google. WARNING: Christians will find the one-minute-fifty-second video that Mr. Lessig shows to a laughing Google audience, sacrilegious, offensive, and disturbing. Bringing sunlight to Professor Lessig's Orwellian Doublespeak lecture to the FCCSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2008-04-18 18:14Not only was I stunned that the FCC allowed Professor Larry Lessig to lecture for a half an hour at the FCC's en banc hearing at Stanford, I was even more stunned no one challenged his blatant misrepresentation and Orwellian "doublespeak" in support of net neutrality.
Here are three of the Orwellian "doublespeak" gems from Lessig's lecture at the FCC en banc hearing:
First, I literally could not believe my ears when Professor Lessig had the unmitigated gall to blatantly misrepresent in his lecture that if Adam Smith were to talk to the FCC that day, that Adam Smith would find a quote from his laissez-faire, free-market tome "Wealth of Nations" -- to somehow defend Professor Lessig's call for preemptive FCC regulation of the Internet. Don't miss -- FCC's McDowell: why engineering problems should be solved by engineers not bureaucratsSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2008-04-18 15:46The wisdom and clarity of thought prize at the FCC's enbanc hearing at Stanford goes to --- FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell! I urge you to take a few moments and read the following excerpt from Commissioner McDowell's statement yesterday -- it really gets to the heart of the matter of what the appropriate role is for the FCC in broadband network management issues.
"...In their joint press announcement, Comcast and BitTorrent expressed the view that “these technical issues can be worked out through private business discussions without the need for government intervention.” The fatal flaws in Lessig-Scott net neutrality editorial sermonSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2008-04-17 11:01Self-appointed Information Commons messiah Larry Lessig and his Free Press acolyte Ben Scott, advance a slew of "beliefs" that they assiduously proselytize wherever they can gather an audience. FreePress' tantrum over Comcast-Pando agreement progress shows its not constructive/reasonableSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2008-04-16 18:49FreePress' antagonistic and borderline hysterical response to the legitimate consumer-friendly progress made in the Comcast-Pando agreement to lead a "P2P Bill of Rights and Responsibilities" shows FreePress' and the net neutrality movement's true colors and suggests that they are not interested in really advancing their stated goals, but in scoring political points and advancing their broader political agenda. They don't seem interested in solutions, because it appears that they are in the business creating and grandstanding about problems. Amazing that FreePress and SaveTheInternet had nothing good to say about this breakthrough agreement that finds common ground to start working towards what FreePress et al say they care about. Any reasonable person can see their are positive developments here and progress being made. See my post on this agreement highlighting its significance.
As I said in my post, no good deed goes unpunished. Seems like another observer agrees with this take: Pages |