Tech Support?
Wire reports that the Senate Commerce Committee is deadlocked on some net neutrality amendments in a current telecommunications bill. The amendment basically says that a service provider cannot prioritize their own packets over competitors’ that are traveling on their lines. It does not prohibit prioritization by type (e.g. all video can go faster than all e-mail).
I showed my wife the included quotation of Senator Ted Stevens’ attempt to explain why the amendment is bad. After reading about his e-mail problem her first question was “Did he check his e-mail since Friday at 10?” Well put. Perhaps Senators should not use anecdotes from their own experience with technology to make laws. I wonder why we have Senators who are obviously ignorant of technology involved in regulating it.
This is an election year. It is a good time to promote some churn in Congress and elect new young faces into Congress. Let’s elect some people who can represent the United States of America in the 21st century.