http://www.arounddesmoines.com/maintaining-net-neutrality-first-amendment-raging-grannies-and-leonard-boswell/ Blogging Des Moines Iowa Mon, 24 Jan 2011 04:41:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.arounddesmoines.com/maintaining-net-neutrality-first-amendment-raging-grannies-and-leonard-boswell/comment-page-1/#comment-8641 Net neutrality revisited | Around Des Moines Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:23:00 +0000 http://www.arounddesmoines.com/maintaining-net-neutrality-first-amendment-raging-grannies-and-leonard-boswell/#comment-8641 [...] April I wrote a post in Around Des Moines on net neutrality. At the time you couldn’t find much coverage in Des [...] [...] April I wrote a post in Around Des Moines on net neutrality. At the time you couldn’t find much coverage in Des [...]

]]> http://www.arounddesmoines.com/maintaining-net-neutrality-first-amendment-raging-grannies-and-leonard-boswell/comment-page-1/#comment-4952 M.R. Field Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:50:47 +0000 http://www.arounddesmoines.com/maintaining-net-neutrality-first-amendment-raging-grannies-and-leonard-boswell/#comment-4952 What many advocates for net neutrality miss is the reality that we already do not have it. This is not a matter of how the data is moved but how the data is received. Too many businesses, not-for-profit organizations, and individuals load their sites with so many graphics, flash messages, and other visual clutter that people without broadband or other high-speed connections have difficulty downloading the information. Even trying to access data for some publicly-available material at the public library is problematic as so many users put such a demand on the network that download speeds can be just as slow as with a dial-up connection for a single computer. Then consider all the people who do not live in communities where wireless internet connections or cable is not financially feasible and where the phone companies do not want to lay fiber optic cable. What many advocates for net neutrality miss is the reality that we already do not have it. This is not a matter of how the data is moved but how the data is received. Too many businesses, not-for-profit organizations, and individuals load their sites with so many graphics, flash messages, and other visual clutter that people without broadband or other high-speed connections have difficulty downloading the information. Even trying to access data for some publicly-available material at the public library is problematic as so many users put such a demand on the network that download speeds can be just as slow as with a dial-up connection for a single computer. Then consider all the people who do not live in communities where wireless internet connections or cable is not financially feasible and where the phone companies do not want to lay fiber optic cable.

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