Net Neutrality Archives - Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

A Conservative FAQ on Net Neutrality

Scott Bradford — Sat, 08 Jul 2017 01:09:05 +0000

On July 12, here on Off on a Tangent, I will join with hundreds (maybe thousands?) of other web sites participating in the Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality. ‘Net neutrality’ is the principle that all information flowing over the Internet should be treated equally . . . in other words, that the Internet should be a free-flowing medium […]

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Join the Battle for Net Neutrality

Scott Bradford — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 04:15:13 +0000

In 1995, I created my first web site. It was not much to look at, but the experience was empowering. I had my own little spot on the Internet, and I could do anything I wanted with it. From its earliest days, the Internet was built to be open. My little web site was entitled […]

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SOPA/PIPA ‘Strike’ Statement

Scott Bradford — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:01:18 +0000

Off on a Tangent joined with thousands of other web sites across the Internet in going on strike to protest two incredibly dangerous bills working their way through the U.S. Congress. This protest has since concluded, but it is still very important that you contact your elected representatives and demand that they oppose these bills. This […]

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What If SOPA/PIPA Passes?

Scott Bradford — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:53:26 +0000

A lot of people all across the Internet have been up in arms about the pernicious Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its companion Protect IP Act (PIPA) bills working their ways through Congress—and with good reason. But as a web site operator, even of a dinky little blog like this one, these bills stand […]

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Breaking the Internet (and Liberty)

Scott Bradford — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:00:20 +0000

On February 27, 1933, Marinus Van der Lubbe—an unemployed bricklayer from the Netherlands with Communist sympathies—set fire to the Reichstag (Parliament) Building in Berlin. Most likely, Van der Lubbe was working alone . . . but that didn’t stop Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party cabinet from using the fire as an excuse to initiate a broad anti-Communist pogrom. […]

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Support Net Neutrality

Scott Bradford — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:33:35 +0000

As you may know from reading this site over the years, I am a fervent supporter of ‘net neutrality’ regulations. In fact, I think that the principles of net neutrality should be codified in federal law—but I’ll take a firmly established Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulation as a fine stop-gap. To oversimplify the issue, net […]

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Fear Mongering on the ‘Fairness’ Doctrine

Scott Bradford — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:59:01 +0000

In a shameless example of fear-mongering, some Republicans—including Robert McDowell, a member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)—have been trying to create a tenuous, fictional link between net neutrality and the fairness doctrine. In reality, the two are essentially polar opposites. Net neutrality is the doctrine that nobody—not the government, and not Internet providers—has a […]

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FCC Rules Against Comcast

Scott Bradford — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:20:20 +0000

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has formally ruled that Comcast’s initiative last year to ‘throttle’ BitTorrent file sharing traffic on their network was a violation of net neutrality rules. The FCC announced their investigation back in April. This marks the first time that the FCC has found a company to have violated net neutrality regulations. […]

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FCC Reviewing Comcast Broadband Abuses

Scott Bradford — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:05:06 +0000

Reuters reports that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is reviewing Comcast’s questionable practice of blocking some Internet traffic and whether it is ‘reasonable’. Good. But, as I have said before, ‘Net Neutrality’ needs to be enshrined in honest-to-goodness law, not just protected by the transient decree of an unelected (and largely unaccountable) commission. The Internet […]

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Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic

Scott Bradford — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:49:22 +0000

This, my friends, is why we need laws about Net Neutrality. Independent testing shows that Comcast, the second largest Internet service provider, actively interferes with BitTorrent file sharing by its customers. BitTorrent, while sometimes used for the illegal transfer of copyrighted material, is also used by hundreds of legitimate companies and organizations to quickly distribute […]

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