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The FCC tees up net neutrality

December 3rd, 2010 | by z | published in Future of the Internet, Generativity, net neutrality | 4 Comments

A few months ago it looked like there’d be no action on net neutrality in the US by the FCC or Congress. After some momentum gathered during both the Bush and Obama administrations, a federal court ruling had cast doubt on the FCC’s ability to regulate in the area, and a rancorous election season suggested […]

The Google/Verizon framework

August 16th, 2010 | by z | published in Future of the Internet, net neutrality | 17 Comments

I’ve been trying to figure out what the Google/Verizon announcement means. It’s not easy to do, in large part because the announcement doesn’t precisely announce anything. It’s titled a “legislative framework proposal.” That is, on its own terms it’s not an agreement between two companies — neither is bound to do anything by it, which […]

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@ithizar To me, able leadership wouldn’t put all its eggs in one basket - mitigation should be layered - nor would it let the fire rage until the brand new fire truck on back order arrives, when there are other measures, as detailed in the first quoted tweet.

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The White House’s unreal view: the only problem is ... too much testing. Stop testing, it goes away. pic.twitter.com/0tnd0LIYwY

Yesterday from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

“Torpor” was too kind. The President now says that acknowledging COVID as a dangerous pandemic is itself a conspiracy. twitter.com/kt_so_it_goes/…

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I’m surprised by Federal leadership’s near-term torpor around the pandemic, culminating in the White House’s embrace of herd immunity, a.k.a. fatalistically doing nothing, hoping for a vaccine. So much else could have been done - could be done now! - to improve the situation. twitter.com/JamesSurowieck…

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Loving County, TX, has 121 registered voters at last count. It is entitled to one drop box, too. To equalize the rate of drop boxes per person would require more than 19,000 dropboxes in Harris County, instead of ... 1.

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