Net Neutrality. What good is a free operating system without a network?

[Randy Edwards]

 > All you can do is connect to some other guy's network and hope for the
 > best.  The idea that the Internet is this utopian cyberspace where
 > everybody is equal is a myth, and always has been.

   Your observations about the Internet are dead-on, and should be remembered.  
But I would disagree with the above, just because it seems rather 
self-defeatist.

   If we desire the Internet to reflect some of our American attitudes of free 
speech and to have a semi-Bill of Rights flavor, we *can* make it that way.  
We do have a (semi-functional) political/legal system and can mandate that 
ISPs function as utilitarian common carriers.

 Regards,
 .
 Randy

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The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and 
Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world.