[governance] The Gilder Friday Letter #Net Neutrality
Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro
salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com
Sat Sep 14 07:14:21 EDT 2013
On Sep 14, 2013, at 8:51 PM, Kossi Amessinou <amessinoukossi at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Dear all,
> Internet is important for all people. If all of us are working
> together, why the african can not have the quality of internet to use?
> We pay so much money to get bad quality service. why anything can not
> be doing for us? Let me know, please!!
>
Hi Kossi,
There can be different reasons for this. If the wholesale is expensive, chances are when it is passed down through the Telcos and ISPs, it can be expensive as well. Things like liberalization of the telecommunications industry in countries coupled with healthy competition and a regulatory environment can help bring prices down for ordinary consumers. Sometimes, the lack of an Internet Exchange Point can also clog the pipes and make traffic inefficient and costly as well.
A good way to have your say is to get in touch with your country's regulator of the telecommunications industry and engage in dialogue. No one country is the same as the next and each context is different.
By the way, Kossi, could you please remind me of which country you are from again? Hope you are well and I hope access improves in your country.
Kind Regards,
Sala
> 2013/9/13, Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com>:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I just found out that on the 9th September, 2013, the DC Federal Appeals
>> Court heard Verizon's challenge to FCC's open internet order, see below.
>>
>> Wish I was in DC to have sat in to hear the saline arguments.
>>
>> See below for more information.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>> Sala
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>> From: Manoj Ranchord <mranchord at yahoo.co.nz>
>>> Date: September 14, 2013, 6:59:19 AM GMT+12:00
>>> To: "Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro"
>>> <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Fw: The Gilder Friday Letter
>>>
>>>
>>> FYI - some commentary on net neutrality.
>>>
>>> Ps. This is a good source for alternative view from predominant opinion.
>>>
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>>>
>>> BRET SWANSON, Maximum Entropy (09/09/13): Today the D.C. Federal Appeals
>>> Court hears Verizon's challenge to the Federal Communications Commission's
>>> "Open Internet Order" — better known as "net neutrality."
>>>
>>> Hard to believe, but we've been arguing over net neutrality for a decade.
>>> I just pulled up some testimony George Gilder and I prepared for a Senate
>>> Commerce Committee hearing in April 2004. In it, we asserted that a newish
>>> "horizontal layers" regulatory proposal, then circulating among comm–law
>>> policy wonks, would become the next big tech policy battlefield.
>>> Horizontal layers became net neutrality, the Bush FCC adopted the
>>> non-binding Four Principles of an open Internet in 2005, the Obama FCC
>>> pushed through actual regulations in 2010, and now today's court
>>> challenge, which argues that the FCC has no authority to regulate the
>>> Internet and that, in fact, Congress told the FCC not to regulate the
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>>> Over the years we've followed the debate, and often weighed in. Here's a
>>> sampling of our articles, reports, reply comments, and even some
>>> doggerel:
>>>
>>> "CBS–Time Warner Cable Spat Shows (Once Again) Why 'Net Neutrality' Won't
>>> Work" – by Bret Swanson – August 9, 2013
>>>
>>> "Verizon, ESPN, and the Future of Broadband" – by Bret Swanson –
>>> Forbes.com – June 4, 2013
>>>
>>> "The Internet Survives, and Thrives, For Now" – by Bret Swanson –
>>> RealClearMarkets – December 6, 2010
>>>
>>> "Reply Comments to the FCC's Open Internet Further Inquiry" – by Bret
>>> Swanson – November 4, 2010
>>>
>>> "Net Neutrality, Investment, and Jobs: Assessing the Potential Impact on
>>> the Broadband Ecosystem" – by Charles M. Davidson and Bret T. Swanson,
>>> Advanced Communications Law and Policy Institute, New York Law School,
>>> June 16, 2010
>>>
>>> "Reply Comments in the FCC Matter of 'Preserving the Open Internet'" – by
>>> Bret Swanson – April 26, 2010
>>>
>>> "What Would Net Neutrality Mean for U.S. Jobs?" – by Bret Swanson –
>>> February 5, 2010
>>>
>>> "Net Neutrality's Impact on Internet Innovation" – prepared for the New
>>> York City Council – by Bret Swanson – November 20, 2009
>>>
>>> "Google and the Problem With 'Net Neutrality'" – by Bret Swanson, The Wall
>>> Street Journal, October 5, 2009
>>>
>>> "Leviathan Spam" – by Bret Swanson – A whimsical take on "Net Neutrality"
>>> – September 23, 2009
>>>
>>> "Unleashing the 'Exaflood'" – by Bret Swanson and George Gilder, The Wall
>>> Street Journal, February 22, 2008
>>>
>>> "The Coming Exaflood" – by Bret Swanson, The Wall Street Journal, January
>>> 20, 2007
>>>
>>> "Let There Be Bandwidth" – by Bret Swanson, The Wall Street Journal, March
>>> 7, 2006
>>>
>>> "Testimony For Telecommunications Policy: A Look Ahead" – testimony before
>>> the Senate Commerce Committee – by George Gilder – April 28, 2004
>>>
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>>> Experiment Revisited" sets out to do.
>>>
>>> The 1980s boom was launched on the simple insight that, by lowering tax
>>> rates and regulatory hurdles and juicing the incentives to produce,
>>> innovate and take risks, the animal spirits of the American
>>> free–enterprise system would revive. Two seminal books hatched the
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>>> Works" (1978); the second, George Gilder's "Wealth and Poverty" (1981).
>>>
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>>> "The Growth Experiment" (1990). Slightly academic in nature, it was the
>>> first book to quantify the economic and revenue windfall of the 1981
>>> Reagan across–the–board tax cuts. Mr. Lindsey's conclusion was that
>>> Reagan's 1981 tax act quickened the pace of production, which reduced the
>>> predicted revenue loss. His research found that although the Reagan tax
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>>> income spectrum "did produce a revenue gain" because of "changes in
>>> taxpayer behavior." He concluded that "the core supply–side tenet—that tax
>>> rates powerfully affect the willingness of taxpayers to work, save and
>>> invest, and thereby also affect the health of the economy—won as stunning
>>> a vindication as has been seen in at least a half–century of economics."
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>>> front–seat economic adviser to George W. Bush, serving as director of the
>>> National Economic Council and as one of the architects of the
>>> often–maligned 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts.
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>>> from the undertow of the financial meltdown at the end of the Clinton
>>> presidency. The bursting of the high–tech bubble in 1999–2000, which tends
>>> to be forgotten, was followed by the turmoil and economic upheaval after
>>> 9/11. Mr. Lindsey makes a convincing case that Mr. Bush doesn't receive
>>> nearly the credit he deserves for steering the economy clear of a
>>> mini–depression in the early 2000s. The economic revival of 2003–07 wasn't
>>> particularly speedy, but it looks impressive today when compared with the
>>> dismal results of Obamanomics.
>>>
>>> The purpose of the tax cuts, Mr. Lindsey writes, was "to provide a cushion
>>> for the economy when the bubble burst." They were designed as an
>>> "insurance policy" against a downturn. The author says that he was driven
>>> by a lesson, impressed upon him by then Federal Reserve Chairman Alan
>>> Greenspan, not to repeat the policy mistakes after the 1929 stock market
>>> crash, when taxes and tariffs were raised in 1930 and 1931. They only
>>> exacerbated the length and severity of the Depression.
>>>
>>> Mr. Lindsey writes that the Bush tax cut in 2001 was "a standard Keynesian
>>> remedy for a recession" but "with a supply–side twist," and that it helped
>>> avert a deeper recession. "The economy began to recover as soon as the
>>> tax–cut checks hit," he insists. Those policies consisted mainly of tax
>>> rebates, credits and a slow phase–down of rates (to a 35% maximum). On the
>>> opinion pages of this newspaper we have questioned the bang–for–the–buck
>>> quality of the 2001 tax package, arguing that, contrary to Mr. Lindsey's
>>> claim, the rebates and credits bumped up consumption in only a minor and
>>> temporary way and that what was needed was permanent tax–rate reductions
>>> to encourage investment and work. It is true that the economy revived in
>>> 2001 and 2002, but only haltingly.
>>>
>>> The real economic sparkplug was the 2003 investment–tax cut, which lowered
>>> the rate on capital gains and dividends. Not only did growth accelerate,
>>> but stocks rose in value—as Mr. Lindsey had predicted—and revenues to the
>>> federal government exploded by nearly $800 billion until 2008, when the
>>> bursting of the housing bubble sent the economy into the intensive–care
>>> unit.
>>>
>>> For all the moaning about growing deficits under Mr. Bush, Mr. Lindsey
>>> defends the record of the president he worked for: The cumulative debt
>>> during Mr. Bush's two terms, he notes, added $2 trillion—or less than the
>>> amount Barack Obama borrowed in his first two years in office. This is
>>> true, though it ignores the fact that Mr. Bush left behind a deficit that
>>> was headed to $1 trillion in 2009 no matter who became president. Mr.
>>> Lindsey sees vindication in Mr. Obama's decision to extend the Bush tax
>>> cuts for everyone in 2011 and for "99 percent of all taxpayers" in 2013.
>>>
>>> The puzzle of Mr. Lindsey is that one of the most prominent defenders of
>>> supply–side economics and lower tax rates is also a disciple of
>>> demand–side economics: He believes that, in times of recession, Keynesian
>>> fiscal policies designed to increase overall demand will help steer an
>>> economy back on the growth path. Both tax cuts and spending increases, he
>>> says, "may be sensible as counter–cyclical policies."
>>>
>>> That isn't everyone's reading of history, of course. What is beyond
>>> dispute, after reading Mr. Lindsey's book, is that tax rates have a direct
>>> effect on the health of the economy, a lesson that the current Obama
>>> administration has chosen to ignore.
>>>
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