Nation/Jeff Chester: End of the Internet?

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Subject: Nation: Hijacking the Net
   Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 18:52:24 -0500
   From: jchester <at> pop.starpower.net
     To: seth.johnson <at> RealMeasures.dyndns.org

Hope all is well.   Here's my small contribution to the "net
neutrality" debate. Nation article below. Please note the
documents from Cisco and others I have placed online.  They are
very revealing of what will happen and how it will work.

My longer version:
http://www.democraticmedia.org/issues/JCnetneutrality.html
Documents page:
http://www.democraticmedia.org/issues/netneutrality.html

This article can be found on the web at

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/chester

The End of the Internet?

by JEFF CHESTER

[posted online on February 1, 2006]

The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting
an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open
and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and