VIDEO: Open_the_networks

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Here's FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein talking about Net Neutrality.
He was speaking to a great panel at the Politics Online conference on the future of broadband in the US. It's funny that the conversation is not about technology, but simply what "openness" means. The current Bush administration (represented by the guy on the right) thinks we should just let market forces figure it out. But others consider broadband as a public service like telephone, water, and roads. Without open guidelines, where's the innovation and equal access when there's a duopoly controlling the access to the internet?

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Scary thought - purpose of Comcast bandwidth caps is to "discriminate" by providing uncapped access to Comcast partners. Adelstein, give us rules to put teeth behind the neutrality principles!