Free Press and other strict Net Neutrality advocates have their facts backwards. The router prioritization that they claim is harmful to others is actually not harmful and the CDN “geographic prioritization” that they claim is harmless is actually the most harmful. Not only does it cause a lot more jitter, but it hogs bandwidth at the expense of other applications.

Edward Wyatt of the New York Times has sounded the alert to a possible deal on Net Neutrality between Google and Verizon and many in the blogosphere including GigaOm is decrying this as a betrayal of Net Neutrality. Aside from the fact that this story is based on many vague and undisclosed sources, the story is wrong on the facts, self contradictory, and incoherent.

On June 29, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and the Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education sent out a general letter addressed to “Dear College or University President” expressing concern that “colleges and universities are using electronic book readers that are not accessible to students who are blind or have low vision,” and noting that this is “discrimination prohibited by the Americans with Disabilities Act.”

The media keeps perpetuating the myth that there are “seven key holders to the Internet”. The reality is that those seven people don’t actually hold recovery keys to DNSSEC much less the Internet or the World Wide Web, and those seven people couldn’t just waltz into the secure facilities to grab a copy of the recovery keys.

Earlier this week I pointed out how absurd it is whenever Net Neutrality advocates claim that the Internet is a place where all websites should load at the same speed. Sen. Al Franken (D.-Minn.) bemoaned that Foxnews might load faster than DailyKos without Net Neutrality. For fun, I decided to actually check if Foxnews loads faster than the DailyKos and found that the opposite was true! Is there a conspiracy going on?

With yesterday’s announcement of a baffling new 4 Mbps minimum broadband speed standard, the era of geek pork barrel has arrived. It doesn’t matter so much what the actual facts are when facts can easily be made up to drive more regulations and entitlements.

At a time when the maximum capability of content anywhere in the world is stuck in the sub 4 Mbps range and probably average less than 1 Mbps, the FCC has decided to set 4 Mbps as the bare minimum standard for broadband access. But if Hulu works well with 0.5 Mbps and looks decent at full screen, why is the FCC setting 4 Mbps as the minimum standard?

Fred Vogelstein at Wired has written a very interesting piece on the iPhone partnership between Apple and AT&T. Apple (and Google) are producing devices that are exploding in popularity and bandwidth consumption while the network operators have to invest boatloads of money just to keep their noses above water all the while taking a brutal public relations bashing.

Wireless mesh networks have never been practical for commercial deployment and they never will be. This article explains why mesh networks have such poor coverage and poor throughput performance.

In October 1517, Martin Luther nailed a paper with 95 theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany, an event often characterized as the start of the Protestant Reformation.