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

[Drew Van Zandt]

I hate this sort of reasoning - it's the same defeatist attitude that
leads people to justify buying an SUV instead of an efficient vehicle
when gas-saving is under discussion.

"Well China buys more barrels every day than SUVs use over hybrids in
a year" - SO WHAT?  Last time I optimized code, each optimization
contributed practically nothing to the program speed - yet keeping it
in mind increased overall execution speed almost 30%.  Little things
add up.  (And the US isn't so little, in Internet terms.)

We should make an effort to keep as much of the 'net free of cruft as
possible.  Do you USE much of the portion of the Internet that's in
China?  If not, why are you bringing it up?  ;-)

I understand that the internet is international - that has no
particular bearing on keeping the parts we CAN have some impact on
free/good/useful.  Why should we make the connection to our houses
faster - it has essentially no impact on the speed of the net in
general.

Sorry for the rant - that particular line of reasoning fills me with
unreasoning anger.

--DTVZ