Rand Paul is now bought and paid for by the telecommunications companies

Once a shining beacon inside the Republican ideology, Rand Paul has turned to the dark side.  He wants the government to regulate that the government shouldn't regulate the internet.  Huh?

Rand Paul, you don't know what you are talking about so clearly you have a hidden political agenda.  In fact, the libertarian viewpoint on net neutrality should be to make sure the government forces companies to keep all internet traffic neutral. That requires no more government. That levels the playing field for startups and people. To do otherwise is to make the internet unfair.

And more importantly, the libertarian viewpoint on the internet should be to allow technical people to govern the internet NOT the politicians. So why are you involved?

To force the Senate to regulate the internet by challenging the FCC's rules is to throw your lot in with the companies and not the people.  Not a very libertarian attitude at all.

I conclude therefore that Rand Paul is bought and paid for.

Mark Cuban is wrong on Net Neutrality

All bits are not the same bits. Mark Cuban forgets that TV technology is a custom network.  The Internet is a NON CUSTOM network developed to be common and open.

Mark Cuban has done a conflation of facts without establishing the truth of his facts.

He claims that since binary is binary they all will get regulated together.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102459578

His proposition is wrong, he is motivated because he wants any company to be able to sell its bits on the Internet. But the fact is nothing stops a company from setting up a CUSTOM network to sell content or whatever. He wants to make money cheaply leveraging the Internet to do what he wants. But that's not what the Internet is.   Fair and open means it does not favour one set of bits over another.  If you can't make your application work on the Internet, go make your own network.  Like a TV company that uses its TV technology.  A TV network that predates the Internet by 80 years.

If an application can co-exist on the Internet then great, if not the write then business case to justify a custom network. 

Here is a truthful retelling of his logic.

All TV bits are TV bits.  All Internet bits are Internet bits.

But;

NOT All Internet bits are TV bits.

The Internet: A refuge for pubescent nerds

It may seem hard to be a nerd growing up now, but imagine how much harder it was back 30 years ago when being an outcast nerd / geek was the equivalent of being a social pariah.  Without the knowledge that there were lots of the same kind of people, just distributed thinly over large areas, it might seem that there was something wrong with you. It made it easier to assume that when the only things on TV are sports.

To avoid some of the hazing, I played rugby and football with jocks and studied with my nerd friends in International Baccalaureate classes.   I avoided hostility because I could exist in both worlds.   But I still played D&D and watched Dune. I was lucky so it made it easier.

The internet has made all kinds of improvements to mankind.  Some are harder to see.