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First, please take a moment to read up on Net Neutrality if you don't recognize the term.

For the last few years i've felt, rather strongly, that i have to go back to school and become a lawyer. And generally the reaction when i tell people this falls somewhere between shock and disgust. Which, i understand: i've read the lawyer-gone-bad books, seen the lawyers-doing-anything-for-fame tv shows, watched the only-good-lawyer-gets-killed movies. But I don't want to be a corporate lawyer; i don't want to Pelican-Brief it either: I want to become a lobbyist in Washington for technology making sure that the geniuses that have been elected to public offices understand the technology they are regulating.

Basically i want to stop horror stories like this from happening:

The Senate Commerce Committee deadlocked 11 to 11 on an amendment inserting some very basic net neutrality provisions into a moving telecommunications bill. The provisions didn't prohibit an ISP from handling VOIP faster than emails, but would have made it illegal to handle its own VOIP packets faster than a competitor's.

Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) explained why he voted against the amendment and gave an amazing primer on how the internet works. Steven's Words, the full audio

... I'm sorry, i can't stomach to republish his inaccuracies here. Basically the argument he gives for his vote against net neutrality is actually an argument for net neutrality. The mind boggles. Actually, it just hurts, but same diff.

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