-By Scott Cleland
Conservatives who care about free markets and limited government need to get smart and engaged on the biggest future threat to the Reagan/Thatcher/Friedman legacy of deregulation.
The Internet is the greatest deregulation and privatization success of all time.
However, the liberal net roots, led by Moveon.org, vehemently disagree and are pushing radical legislation and new net regulation that they’ve cleverly branded “net neutrality” to allegedly have the government “save the Internet” from competitive broadband providers.
- Net neutrality is basically a “socialized Internet.”
- Senators Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, and Speaker Pelosi, and Rep Markey, all support this new net regulation, genuflecting to Moveon.org’s power in the Democratic primaries.
- Google, whose employees donated 98% to Democrats in the last cycle, is the corporate ringleader for regulating the net in order to freeze in place their current competitive advantages.
Our website www.NetCompetition.org provides a wealth of material on the issue and some very good one-pagers. Since we are so confident we are right on the issue we are the only site to include links to both sides of the debate.
The best single page explanation of what it’s all about can be seen here:Net Neutrality in One Page.
My www.PrecursorBlog.com is another good resource as I post on net neutrality most every business day of the week.
After I posted a link to my commentary in the 3-1-07 Washington Times called “America’s Unique Internet Success” Precursorblog was targeted with a malicious denial of service attack which knocked the site down for almost a day.
See more here:
America’s Unique Internet Success
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Scott Cleland is one of nation’s foremost techcom analysts and experts at the nexus of: capital markets, public policy and techcom industry change. He is widely-respected in industry, government, media and capital markets as a forward thinker, free market proponent, and leading authority on the future of communications. Precursor LLC is an industry research and consulting firm, specializing in the techcom sector, whose mission is to help companies anticipate change for competitive advantage. Cleland is also Chairman of NetCompetition.org, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Precursor LLC and an e-forum on Net Neutrality funded by a wide range of broadband telecom, cable and wireless companies. He previously founded The Precursor Group Inc., which Institutional Investor magazine ranked as the #1 “Best Independent” research firm in communications for two years in a row. His latest op eds can be seen at www.precursorblog.com.
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