Pro Net Competition: Other Voices
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Don’t Neutralize Franchise Reform
May 17, 2007 - link >>Philip Kerpen, Americans for Prosperity, New York Sun
New York is doing the right thing for consumers by deregulating video services, increasing competition and consumer choice. So why in the world would Albany consider doing the exact opposite when it comes to Internet service — imposing new Internet regulations that could dry up investment dollars and stifle competition?
Legislation is pending in both the Assembly and the Senate that would streamline the franchising process so that Verizon and other new entrants don’t have to negotiate franchise agreements on a slow and expensive town by town basis. Video franchise reform laws bring the promise of more competition, driving lower prices and more innovative new service offerings. More than a dozen states have passed franchise reform laws and consumers have been pleased with the results.
Unfortunately, the New York franchise reform bills, sponsored by Senator Jim Wright (R-Watertown) and Assemblyman Richard Brodsky (D-Westchester) have a serious flaw that must be fixed. If it isn’t then, despite the promise of video franchise reform, pro-growth, pro-consumer legislators must vote against the bills.
INTERNET LAW - ‘Net Neutrality’ Laws Will Cause $70 Billion Loss
May 16, 2007 - link >>IBLS Editorial Staff, Internet Business Law Services
What is Net Neutrality & will it help or hurt the Internet’s development in the long run? This article will answer these questions, regarding the proposed Net Neutrality rules: What is Net Neutrality, Whose Idea is it?, What are the Main Points of the ACI Study?, How Will Net Neutrality Effect the Poorest?, How Does Multi-Sided Pricing Help?, What do Internet Pioneers Think of this Net Neutrality Legislation?
Certain to cause waves across the ‘Net on both the Government and consumer advocacy sides, the American Consumer Institute released a large study on May 9, 2007 which suggests that if the “Net Neutrality” rules are enacted, the resulting loss of commerce could be in the range of $70 billion in the next decade, alone. Perhaps even worse, the effects will be felt most strongly at the bottom of the socio-economic scale of society, “affecting lower income broadband consumers the most.”
Ominously, the rules will even impact the release of newer and better software programs, which could have a chilling effect for decades afterwards, in terms of connectivity and efficiency of all computer applications. This article will answer these questions, regarding the proposed Net Neutrality rules: What is Net Neutrality, Whose Idea is it?, What are the Main Points of the ACI “Neutrality” Legislation Study?, How Will Net Neutrality Effect the Poorest?, How Does Multi-Sided Pricing Help?, What do Internet Pioneers Think of this Net Neutrality Legislation?
What is Net Neutrality, Whose Idea is it?
Extend Internet’s full reach to black communities
May 11, 2007 - link >>NAACP Voter Fund President, Greg Moore, Ashbury Park Press
The near universal rebuke of Don Imus’s philistine remarks about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team tells us a great deal about how we, as a nation, have matured. A generation ago, the remark may have invited criticism but certainly not the show’s cancellation and the abandonment by advertisers.
And today, not just black people but all Americans should take pride in the newfound ecumenical discourse that demands higher standards of all who participate in an increasingly interwoven communications world.
But before we celebrate this new kind of enfranchisement and civic mindedness, we should take pause and recognize that, for many black Americans, a seat at the table in the information age is still largely illusory. It’s the time-worn story of the digital divide.
It Ain’t a Left-Right Coalition
April 26, 2007 - link >>Kent Lassman, FreedomWorks.org
To quote our chairman Dick Armey, it’s “net ignorance.” Regardless of the content, every story about the SavetheInternet coalition headlines “bi partisan coalition supports net neutrality” or “Christian Coalition partners with MoveOn.org in effort to Save the Internet” or some other such decree of bipartisanship.
What the media fails to realize is that just because the Christian Coalition of America has joined forces with MoveOn.org, doesn’t make it a true bi-partisan coalition. In Armey’s CNET article last year, he illustrated how the CCA has over the past few years separated itself from the rest of the conservative movement - actions that have only served to implode its own state wide grassroots network.
Net Neutrality Fight Continues Today
April 26, 2007 - link >>Richard Morrison, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Washington , D.C., April 26, 2007—So-called “Net Neutrality” advocates today commemorate one year of organized advocacy of legislation to regulate broadband network speeds. The Competitive Enterprise Institute reaffirms its opposition to such rules and reiterates its support of a competitive infrastructure marketplace.
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