Here’s an advertisment paid for by the National Cable and Telecommunication Association. It ran on TBS.

(Click thru if you don’t see the video in your feed reader)

It’s so bad it says that Net Neutrality (i.e. an internet where all requests are equal to all other requests) means everyone will have to pay more. It’s so incorrect my soul hurts.

Net Neutrality is not a new principle. It’s one of the oldest and well working systems on the Internet. It mandates that no traffic can get priority orver any other;. This also means that no traffic will be given less priority. Does the world really need a first class internet for the rich and a crappy internet for the rest. No, it doesn’t. But the telecommunications industry wants to be able to charge tariffs for the traffic it has already agreed to handle.

I’ve written about Net-Neutrality before:
Listen Up For Our Treasure Is Up For Plundering
Anti-Net Neutrality Spin Examples

If you are confused about what Net Neutrality is please email me or leave a comment, I think I can explain it pretty easily now.

The good news is that with the closing gavel of the 109th Congress, Senator Ted “The Internet is a series of tubes” Stevens, his bad antiu Net-Neutrality bill are deeply compromised and many of the Telco friendly legislators are looking for new jobs. But the DEEP pockets of Big Telco are not going to give up. They smell money and they are on it. Be vigilant!