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Perhaps a good model here is that Boehner's position and ATT's support are dynamically coupled ... each causes and maintains the other. Kinda makes it tricky t
by leot 16y ago
Perhaps a good model here is that Boehner's position and ATT's support are dynamically coupled ... each causes and maintains the other.
Kinda makes it tricky to assign blame (which is fortunate, for Boehner).
- isleyaardvark 16y agoThe thing is Boehner's position is so contrary to reality it's hard not to conclude that AT&T is influencing his position. Otherwise we'd have to believe that AT&T was lucky enough to stumble upon a Senator who misunderstands an issue in the exact way that benefits them.
- viggity 16y agoExcuse me, but calling his position so contrary to "reality" is asinine. The internet has thrived and flourished for the past 20 years specifically because of a lack of government regulation - I don't know why it is so hard to believe that some people want to keep it that way.
- leot 16y agoVinton Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee claim the internet flourished because of the maintenance of a common carriage agreement, which net neutrality advocates want to cement. I can understand how common carriage rules lead to great things on the internet. I have a lot more trouble understanding how cementing these rules would stunt the internet's development, and by contrast, I can easily see how the dismantlement of these rules could lead to Bad Things.
- jellicle 16y agoIndeed, the clear truth (as numerous luminaries have also said) is that internet would never have existed without massive government intervention to require local telephone companies to allow data to be transmitted over "their" phone lines, which otherwise they would have prevented.