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Net neutrality may no longer be an issue

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Net neutrality by no longer be an issue  I’ve been following the debate regarding net neutrality for sometime and recently gave a talk to a group of small business people about how it could affect them directly.  But in the past few days I’ve become increasingly sanguine about it all.  From where I stand today, whether it is mandated by federal edict may be entirely unnecessary.    There are four reasons for this: It died long ago on the receiver end It’s almost dead on the transmission end Technological advances in compression make any difference in speed unobservable The Federal Clown College ( FCC ) has so little understanding of the issues they would screw it up even if they did it right. Let’s take a look at reason #1.  I buy the highest speed possible from Comcast because I need it for my business.  I do a lot of video work and I need the speed.  But I live and work in an area of my town where there are only a few Comcast customers...