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June 14, 2006
You know net neutrality is mainstream when...
The Wall Street Journal writes about it as a general-interest story, with pictures of Moby and an interview with Ask a Ninja; you get in your car and the local easy-rock FM station (KFOG) morning-show crew is interviewing Craig Newmark about net neutrality.. that's when it's certifiably mainstream.
The worry from my standpoint is, of course, that the story becomes all about the celebrities and funny stuff and loses the focus of being about letting the telcos and cablecos dictate where the future of the Internet should go.
To that end, I say we advance the transparency debate, and keep asking why Reed Hundt and Bob Kahn's ideas about building a public "last mile" infrastructure don't get a louder reception.
(Bonus transparency link: Though the C/Net story from today's Judiciary hearings didn't mention it, Blair Levin (former FCC chief of staff, now telecom analyst at Stifel, Nicolaus) said in an email that he did bring up the "transparency" point during Q&A at the same hearing. Bully!
Posted by paul at June 14, 2006 05:15 PM
Comments
The Bay Area and Beltway are now mainstream?
Posted by: Sean Garrett at June 14, 2006 09:22 PM
Not only are they mainstream, they are the centers of their own twin universes.
Posted by: paul at June 16, 2006 05:32 PM