Nick Brown - Nick R. Brown is a technology policy consultant and political blogger. He has served at non-profits of varying focus across the South as well as Washington, D.C., and Australia. He holds a Masters in Public Administration from the Askew School at The Florida State University. Mr. Brown is the founder of the political commentary Web site thelobbyist.net and currently is a research associate and content manager for the D.C.-based technology think tank, Digital Society.
“From this site, I vow as the leader of the Jewish state that we will never again allow the hand of evil to destroy the life of our people and the life of our state. Never again.” —Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking on Holocaust Memorial Day. (more)
The FCC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on net neutrality announced in October 2009 just closed the “comments period” this past Friday. This was the period in which anyone may address the FCC’s announced NPRM and provide positive or negative comments, solutions, and advice. If the proposed rules move forward in their current fashion, or with the possibility of being even more restrictive, they will most likely squash all legitimate and necessary forms of network management. When the rules fall into, place time-sensitive services and applications like voice-over-IP (VoIP) will suffer and operate in a degraded form. The results of which will be stagnation in Internet innovation and advancement, further damage to our economy, and higher prices for Internet access in areas in which Internet service providers (ISP) are dependent on network management techniques to deliver quality service to their customers. (more)
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