{"id":3871,"date":"2006-05-17T18:03:55","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T01:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/05\/17\/portland-gets-it\/"},"modified":"2006-05-17T18:03:55","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T01:03:55","slug":"portland-gets-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/17\/portland-gets-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland gets it"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThere are probably more QoS engineers per capita in Portland than any other place in the world. The local paper there gets the regulation issue:<\/a><\/p>\n

\nWhile neutrality advocates can cite a few cases in which network providers have shut down access to sites of which they disapproved, the telecom companies correctly note that they don’t have a history of playing favorites with Web sites or users. They say they understand the Net’s culture of openness and recognize it would be bad business to violate it.<\/p>\n

They point out that it’s costly to build a high-speed network. They ask why customers willing to pay a premium for high speeds and broad lanes — “throughput,” as the geeks say — shouldn’t be allowed to do so. On this point, the telecoms are right — as long as nobody else’s ability to use the network is diminished.<\/p>\n

Congress is under pressure from both sides of the debate, but it should borrow the first principle of the medical profession: First, do no harm. Bad law, in this case, could be much worse than no law. And it’s not entirely clear yet what a good law would look like.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Against the embarrassingly wrong editorial in the Mercury News, the Oregonian is downright brilliant.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are probably more QoS engineers per capita in Portland than any other place in the world. The local paper there gets the regulation issue: While neutrality advocates can cite a few cases in which network providers have shut down access to sites of which they disapproved, the telecom companies correctly note that they don’t … Continue reading “Portland gets it”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-10r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}