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Re: Net neutrality and please wait in the lobby
The main question is, what can we do? One strategy has been to relabel the Net's core virtue — the one we want to protect from the telcos — as "neutrality", and to fight the carriers in Congress to protect it. We've done this 1) while not clearly defining it, and 2) when in fact we've never had it where it counts most for users: in the last mile. In both Congress and the media (outside of the blogosphere, where we're not doing so hot either), we're losing. In fact, it seems we may be doing more harm than good. Look up 'net neutrality' on Google and see what you find. Not pretty. Telling a Republican Congress that it needs to regulate already regulated markets is an exercize in futility best illustrated by Hugh MacLeod. We need to work around — rather than within— what Bob Frankston calls The Regulatorium. We can do this in the last mile by bringing in more participants, and opening up competition for the ones already there. There are responses to this message:
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