DISQUS

Bill:

Thanks for responding to my comment and taking a look at my website. I greatly appreciate your feedback and views.

I'm actually agnostic on the merits/demerits of net neutrality. Rather, I'm more interested, as someone that's been in the persuasion business, in how the issue was created, disseminated and nurtured -- and particularly how it became such a partisan issue. In my humble view, the Internet and this nation's policy on broadband and information networks has not been helped by a lot of the misinformation propagated by both sides. My website will delve into that in future posts.

Could you tell me when and how you became aware of net neutrality? Was it before December 2005? I ask, because that's when the infamous Ed Whitacre remarks about companies using his network "for free" in Business Week became public. By March 2006 AT&T had announced it was merging with BellSouth and that's when the Net Neutrality propaganda machine when into action.

Many thanks for this opportunity to share views.

Have to disagree.

Net neutrality is nothing more than an elaborate business negotiation between Google and the ISPs, dressed up as a public policy issue. Google and other companies have effectively used the "activist anti-industrial" complex as a bullhorn to push their agenda.

See how their doing it at www.thenetneutralityshow.org