{"id":4146,"date":"2007-01-16T03:20:21","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T10:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2007\/01\/16\/neutcasts-of-interest\/"},"modified":"2007-01-16T03:20:21","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T10:20:21","slug":"neutcasts-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/16\/neutcasts-of-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet inventor opposed to Net Neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovery.org\/scripts\/viewDB\/filesDB-download.php?command=download&#038;id=1130\">neut debate is interesting,<\/a> featuring Tod Cohen, George Gilder, Peter Huber,  Lawrence Lessig, Paul McWilliams, and Andy Kessler at Gilder&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gildertech.com\/public\/Telecosm2006\/Agenda.htm\">Telecosm Conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lessig really stands out &#8211; he sounds like a twelve-year-old girl demanding an increase in her allowance, and the rest tell her to do her chores. That&#8217;s not much of an exaggeration. Gilder is also pretty incoherent, but the others have some interesting things to say.<\/p>\n<p>And this talk between <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.computerhistory.org\/lectures\/an_eveninig_with_robert_kahn.lecture.2007.01.09.wmv\">Ed Feigenbaum and Bob Kahn<\/a> should open a few eyes. Kahn says he&#8217;s not interested in network neutrality (1:44 in), which to him is a destructive slogan. Networks are built on incremental improvements, and net neutrality stifles that growth. Here&#8217;s some quotes: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If it&#8217;s more efficient to do things inside the net than outside the net, I&#8217;m OK with that&#8230;Companies that make innovations should be able to control them&#8230;You really want to incentivize people to innovate&#8230;I&#8217;m totally opposed to mandating that nothing interesting can happen inside the net.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He says he doesn&#8217;t agree with his former assistant, Google&#8217;s Cerf, that innovation has to be pushed outside the net.<\/p>\n<p>(Note: Bob Kahn is the guy who actually invented the Internet, not Al Gore, not Vint Cerf, not Jon Postel, not Bob Metcalfe, not Tim Berners-Lee. Bob Kahn invented the Internet and he&#8217;s against network neutrality.  This will be on the test, so write it down.)\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This neut debate is interesting, featuring Tod Cohen, George Gilder, Peter Huber, Lawrence Lessig, Paul McWilliams, and Andy Kessler at Gilder&#8217;s Telecosm Conference. Lessig really stands out &#8211; he sounds like a twelve-year-old girl demanding an increase in her allowance, and the rest tell her to do her chores. That&#8217;s not much of an exaggeration. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/16\/neutcasts-of-interest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Internet inventor opposed to Net Neutrality&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-4146","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-14S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146","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=4146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}