I really should be writing about AT&T agreeing to give up their push for a two-tiered internet as part of the FCC blessing on their $86B acquisition of BellSouth.

Cody, I’m sorry to say I have no idea if this precedence will put the anti-Net Neutrality movement on ice by the other big telcos. Heck, now the the FCC chair is said to be saying he will not uphold the clause, so it’s a war of words. Maybe they should take it to court. Oh, won’t that be fun.

I should also be talking about remembering when the massive monopoly ruling which split the telcos up when I was a kid and how they’re inexorably blobbing back into one, but that would be too boring.

I should also talk about how the Wall Street Journal wrote an opinion called Net Discrimination (01/02/06 A22) saying how the telcos should have a right to do anything they want including making the internet as classist as Wall Street. I love how their piece goes on to praise heroic republicans and villify democrats as if any legislator really votes for a corporately charged issue independently and with integrity.

Here’s where I should make some aside that AT&T is the same company that illegally gave the government untold millions of phone call records and then go on to make some Orwellian fear that it’s in a government’s nature to maintain as much control over all data as possible.

But I’m just too tired to do it right so I’m not going to at all.

Here are my existing positions on this.