The "Net Neutrality War" comes to Canada.

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Sat Nov 4 22:10:39 UTC 2006


Jason Carson wrote:
> I just wrote my MP and told him I support net neutrality.

When you do that, you may want to mention Almon Strowger, who invented
telephone dialing, because the phone operators were redirecting his
calls for his undertaker business to competitors.  He was one of the
first advocates of "net neutrality", to keep the phone company from
interfering with his business.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almon_Strowger>
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