Comments on: Leviathan Spam http://techliberation.com/2009/09/23/leviathan-spam/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:51:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: laptop battery http://techliberation.com/2009/09/23/leviathan-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-65153 laptop battery Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:19:53 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=21834#comment-65153 <p>This is great news. Best of luck for the future and keep up the good work.</p> This is great news. Best of luck for the future and keep up the good work.

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]]> By: Bret Swanson - Maximum Entropy » Blog Archive » Does Google Voice violate neutrality? http://techliberation.com/2009/09/23/leviathan-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-62490 Bret Swanson - Maximum Entropy » Blog Archive » Does Google Voice violate neutrality? Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:29:33 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=21834#comment-62490 <p>[...] web-based apps!  Again, this is the point we have stressed here again and again and again and again when opposing Net neutrality mandates: If you open the door to regulation on one layer of the Net, [...]</p> [...] web-based apps!  Again, this is the point we have stressed here again and again and again and again when opposing Net neutrality mandates: If you open the door to regulation on one layer of the Net, [...]

]]> By: Google Voice & the Slippery Slope of Net Neutrality Regulation — Technology Liberation Front http://techliberation.com/2009/09/23/leviathan-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-62475 Google Voice & the Slippery Slope of Net Neutrality Regulation — Technology Liberation Front Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:51:56 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=21834#comment-62475 <p>[...] of web-based apps!  Again, this is the point we have stressed here again and again and again and again when opposing Net neutrality mandates: If you open the door to regulation on one layer of the Net, [...]</p> [...] of web-based apps!  Again, this is the point we have stressed here again and again and again and again when opposing Net neutrality mandates: If you open the door to regulation on one layer of the Net, [...]

]]> By: Do Americans Really Want “Net Neutrality” Regulation? — Technology Liberation Front http://techliberation.com/2009/09/23/leviathan-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-62430 Do Americans Really Want “Net Neutrality” Regulation? — Technology Liberation Front Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:53:59 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=21834#comment-62430 <p>[...] cable companies and their henchmen. In fact, such regulations would actually harm consumers, retard the heretofore-explosive growth of bandwidth, and dramatically increase government control over the Internet. Of course, the degree of public [...]</p> [...] cable companies and their henchmen. In fact, such regulations would actually harm consumers, retard the heretofore-explosive growth of bandwidth, and dramatically increase government control over the Internet. Of course, the degree of public [...]

]]> By: Brett Glas http://techliberation.com/2009/09/23/leviathan-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-62412 Brett Glas Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:47:37 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=21834#comment-62412 <p>Blurgh.... Blorgh.... Ptoo.... Wiping coffee off of my shirt. Dang, there's too much on it; I'm going to have to CHANGE my shirt. Witty and brilliant. And right on the mark.<br><br>The sad thing is that, as a small, independent broadband provider, upon whom community members depend, I can't just run away from the problem of inappropriate regulation as investors can. My life is in my company. If this regulation is defeated, Google won't be out of business, and their puppets in DC -- such as Free Press, Public Knowledge and the New America Foundation -- will simply lick their wounds and move on. But I'll be out of business.</p> Blurgh…. Blorgh…. Ptoo…. Wiping coffee off of my shirt. Dang, there's too much on it; I'm going to have to CHANGE my shirt. Witty and brilliant. And right on the mark.

The sad thing is that, as a small, independent broadband provider, upon whom community members depend, I can't just run away from the problem of inappropriate regulation as investors can. My life is in my company. If this regulation is defeated, Google won't be out of business, and their puppets in DC — such as Free Press, Public Knowledge and the New America Foundation — will simply lick their wounds and move on. But I'll be out of business.

]]> By: Brett Glas http://techliberation.com/2009/09/23/leviathan-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-62411 Brett Glas Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:44:33 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=21834#comment-62411 <p>Blurgh.... Blorgh.... Ptoo.... Wiping coffee off of my shirt. Dang, there's too much on it; I'm going to have to CHANGE my shirt. Witty and brilliant. And right on the mark.<br><br>The sad thing is that, as a small, independent broadband provider, upon whom community members depend, I can't just run away from the problem of inappropriate regulation as investors can. My life is in my company. If this regulation is defeated, Google won't be out of business, and their puppets in DC -- such as Free Press, Public Knowledge and the New America Foundation -- will simply lick their wounds and move on. But I'll be out of business.</p> Blurgh…. Blorgh…. Ptoo…. Wiping coffee off of my shirt. Dang, there's too much on it; I'm going to have to CHANGE my shirt. Witty and brilliant. And right on the mark.

The sad thing is that, as a small, independent broadband provider, upon whom community members depend, I can't just run away from the problem of inappropriate regulation as investors can. My life is in my company. If this regulation is defeated, Google won't be out of business, and their puppets in DC — such as Free Press, Public Knowledge and the New America Foundation — will simply lick their wounds and move on. But I'll be out of business.

]]> By: dm http://techliberation.com/2009/09/23/leviathan-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-62410 dm Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:40:00 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=21834#comment-62410 <p>PS, I'm interested in the take of your "privacy regulations hurt consumers" faction on Netflix's proposal to improve their service by releasing their customers' data: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09/netflix-prize-2-privacy-apocalypse-now.ars" rel="nofollow">http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09...</a></p> PS, I'm interested in the take of your “privacy regulations hurt consumers” faction on Netflix's proposal to improve their service by releasing their customers' data: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09…

]]> By: dm http://techliberation.com/2009/09/23/leviathan-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-62409 dm Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:32:20 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=21834#comment-62409 <p>No comment on the buzzword doggerel, but a hearty thank you to Berin for stating his thesis so clearly: "Neutrality regulation for the infrastructure layer of the Internet will lead to neutrality regulation for applications, devices, API, search, cloud apps, etc."<br><br>Stated like that, its absurdity is pretty clear. We have standards in a lot of areas (the names of many of them bubble up in the poem above), they do chafe a bit sometimes, but they make innovation possible, and they make possible one company's routers to talk to another's.</p> No comment on the buzzword doggerel, but a hearty thank you to Berin for stating his thesis so clearly: “Neutrality regulation for the infrastructure layer of the Internet will lead to neutrality regulation for applications, devices, API, search, cloud apps, etc.”

Stated like that, its absurdity is pretty clear. We have standards in a lot of areas (the names of many of them bubble up in the poem above), they do chafe a bit sometimes, but they make innovation possible, and they make possible one company's routers to talk to another's.

]]> By: Adam Thierer http://techliberation.com/2009/09/23/leviathan-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-62407 Adam Thierer Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:53:23 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=21834#comment-62407 <p>Absolutely brilliant, Bret! Your fable might be destined to become for the neutrality wars what R.W. Grant's classic story "<a href="http://www.agem.com/tomsmith.htm" rel="nofollow">Tom Smith and His Incredible Bread Machine</a>" is to antitrust.</p> Absolutely brilliant, Bret! Your fable might be destined to become for the neutrality wars what R.W. Grant's classic story “Tom Smith and His Incredible Bread Machine” is to antitrust.

]]> By: MichelangeloF536 http://techliberation.com/2009/09/23/leviathan-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-62402 MichelangeloF536 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:57:23 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=21834#comment-62402 <p>Awesome. Simply awesome.</p> Awesome. Simply awesome.

]]> By: The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog http://techliberation.com/2009/09/23/leviathan-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-62406 The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:50:33 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=21834#comment-62406 <p><strong>Bret Swanson's "Leviathan Spam": A Poetic Rebuttal of Net Neutrality Regulation...</strong></p> <p>George Gilder is unrivaled as the bard of the Digital Revolution in his celebration of capitalism as the fountainhead of technological innovation and a force for betterment of the human condition. But Gilder's apprentice, PFF alumn Bret Swanson, seems...</p> Bret Swanson’s “Leviathan Spam”: A Poetic Rebuttal of Net Neutrality Regulation…

George Gilder is unrivaled as the bard of the Digital Revolution in his celebration of capitalism as the fountainhead of technological innovation and a force for betterment of the human condition. But Gilder’s apprentice, PFF alumn Bret Swanson, seems…

]]> By: Berin Szoka http://techliberation.com/2009/09/23/leviathan-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-62401 Berin Szoka Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:03:59 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=21834#comment-62401 <p>Double plus brilliant, Bret! Your poetry really hits the key points, including the point Adam and I tried to make in our <a href="http://techliberation.com/2009/09/22/the-day-real-internet-freedom-died-our-forbes-op-ed-on-net-neutrality-regulation/" rel="nofollow">The Day Internet Freedom Died</a> in <i>Forbes</i>: Neutrality regulation for the infrastructure layer of the Internet <i>will</i> lead to neutrality regulation for applications, devices, API, search, cloud apps, etc. because the basic principle is the same: only government can discipline the "gatekeepers" who control access to a platform.<br><br>The bucket / ------ rhyme is particularly clever.</p> Double plus brilliant, Bret! Your poetry really hits the key points, including the point Adam and I tried to make in our The Day Internet Freedom Died in Forbes: Neutrality regulation for the infrastructure layer of the Internet will lead to neutrality regulation for applications, devices, API, search, cloud apps, etc. because the basic principle is the same: only government can discipline the “gatekeepers” who control access to a platform.

The bucket / —— rhyme is particularly clever.

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