[IP] Re: Techdirt: Net Neutrality Debate Again Descends Into Shouting, Farce

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com>
Date: June 24, 2007 1:58:56 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Techdirt: Net Neutrality Debate Again Descends  
Into Shouting, Farce

David Farber wrote:

> From: "Robert J. Berger" <rberger@ibd.com>
> > Bush official goes nuclear in Net Neut row
> Shouting match with delegates

> John Kneuer, the assistant secretary for communications and  
> information, quickly lost his temper and began shouting back at  
> Supernova 2007 attendees after taking flack for saying the free  
> market - not government intervention - would protect internet  
> innovation and access.

And this is the same John Kneuer who runs NTIA that backs the heavy  
regulatory apparatus called ICANN?

Is ICANN a pinnacle of free market economics?  No, it's a government  
backed guild.

Kneuer and NTIA, via ICANN, are imposing a most heavy-handed,  
regressive, incumbent protective, and anti-innovative regime onto the  
internet.

So what's all this protestation by Kneuer about free marketplaces?   
He and his agency seem to be driven by context.  When it serves NTIA  
to protect internet incumbents NTIA takes on the mantle of a Soviet  
era 5-year planner and tells us we have to take the ICANN drug.  When  
it comes to protecting telco incumbents, NTIA gets out its free  
market cowboy hat and goes yee-haw.

		--karl--




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