Why Qwest, Rocky dislike Net neutrality
The Jan. 13 Rocky Mountain News editorial failed to provide readers with an adequate context for what the Net neutrality fight is all about. If giant corporations like Qwest are successful in their multimillion-dollar lobbying efforts to gut the Internet Freedom Protection Act, consumers and small businesses alike will suffer.
Currently, every Web site on the Internet is equally accessible. That means I can access a small one-person news blog as easily as the Rocky Web site. It also means that I can access AT&T-owned Web sites over Qwest infrastructure without Qwest interfering to make AT&T’s content slower and less desirable. The current system of Net neutrality offers a level playing field where a small independent bookseller can compete head to head with giants like Barnes & Noble online. Large corporations like Qwest want to be gatekeepers that control which Web sites load fast, which ones load slowly and which ones won’t load at all. That’s what the Net neutrality fight is all about.
Lawrence Jones, Conifer
Rob,
Neither Dick, nor Joe, nor Sol before him. Nor Dick the 1st, nor Jack the Mac, nor Robert Timothy.
Nor Czar Ivan of the New York nor King Edward of San Antonio.
And certainly not the new Mr. Roberts of Philadelphia......
No more than Mr. Singleton, Mr. Temple, Mr. Scripps or Mr. Howard....
should determine what we watch read or hear through a peferential Internet.....
TWF
The opponents would ask who is paying for the backbone of the internet? and it isn't Little Bookstore Owner, it is the Quests, Comcasts etc. of the world. The ones that payed to lay the cable, set up the wireless nets, etc.
There is no free lunch even for the internet.
Posted by Not a jay on January 29, 2007 02:46 PMHot,
nope, they didn't pay for it.
The taxpayer did, and then the subscribers did again.
Posted by on January 29, 2007 05:42 PMOnce again, anyone wo pays for Qwest is getting ripped off. You might as well pay the 10$ a month for NetZero rather than Qwest's demands of 40$ a month for a product that get shown up by NetZero dialup.
Posted by on January 30, 2007 03:25 AM