{"id":4445,"date":"2008-06-25T09:56:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T16:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/and-a-pony-for-you\/"},"modified":"2008-06-25T09:56:36","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T16:56:36","slug":"and-a-pony-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/25\/and-a-pony-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"And a pony for you&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI need to expain why this is bad in some detail, but for now enjoy Julian Sanchez&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20080624-internet-for-everyone-campaign-aims-to-bridge-digital-divide.html\">Internet for Everyone campaign aims to bridge digital divide:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Legal scholars Jonathan Zittrain and Tim Wu stressed what Zittrain called the &#8220;weird&#8221; economics of providing high-speed Internet. Initially, said Zittrain, cost increases are commensurate with the scale of the network, until &#8220;suddenly it&#8217;s free, because you&#8217;re peering.&#8221; But in practice, said Wu, drawing an analogy to the energy crisis, broadband in the U.S. is &#8220;controlled by a tiny cartel.&#8221; Nevertheless, Vint Cerf\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwho in addition to being known as the &#8220;father of the Internet&#8221; authored the manifesto &#8220;The Internet Is for Everyone&#8221;\u00e2\u20ac\u201dstressed that the new rules for broadband should not resemble &#8220;the vertical regulation of the past.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>All this may have a whiff of &#8220;and a pony&#8221; about it<\/b>: Nobody is going to oppose universal, cheap, fast Internet access\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut how long will this motley crew speak with a unified voice when it comes to the nitty-gritty of policymaking? I put the question to Zittrain after the press conference, and he allowed that consensus is less likely the further one gets from these pleasing generalities. The coalition&#8217;s role, he suggested, will primarily consist of focusing public attention on the issue\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand on instances of telecom rent-seeking that might otherwise slide under the radar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Everybody likes free stuff, until the strings become evident.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/net+neutrality\" rel=\"tag\">net+neutrality<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need to expain why this is bad in some detail, but for now enjoy Julian Sanchez&#8217; Internet for Everyone campaign aims to bridge digital divide: Legal scholars Jonathan Zittrain and Tim Wu stressed what Zittrain called the &#8220;weird&#8221; economics of providing high-speed Internet. Initially, said Zittrain, cost increases are commensurate with the scale of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/25\/and-a-pony-for-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And a pony for you&#8230;&#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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4445","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-19H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445","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=4445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}