[Eug-lug] Mr Smith goes to Washington to address net neutrality

[Brian Gallagher]

I actually heard back from Senator Smith, in writing, in response to the 
e-mail I was persuaded to send to his office about net neutrality.  I 
feel that the response was subtly worded to promote the aims of the big 
players in this debate.  I don't have the time to investigate the 
subtleties of the legislation and I was wondering if someone had a 
comment.  I wanted to know if he turned the argument in on itself, but, 
I don't want to slight him if he did not.

excerpt: "Some companies who plan to provide these [broadband] services 
want Congress to create Internet regulations know as "net neutrality" to 
protect them from paying more for increased bandwidth."

I thought it was more like the creation of a two tiered bandwidth 
delivery system that would allow moneyed players to leverage business 
advantage that inherently establish monopolies.

Brian