Ned Badger

Just a badger looking for some truth out there. Hero of the people. Also a badger.

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Listen to badger: save the internet.
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#FCC #NetNeutrality #SaveTheInternet #FCCBadger

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T-Mobile’s Music Freedom, along with other similar initiatives, are evidence that consumer choice and competition “have ensured a
differentiated marketplace”)

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CDNs are a layer in the internet ecosystem. Content owners such as media companies and e-commerce vendors pay CDN operators to deliver their content to their end users. In turn, a CDN pays ISPs, carriers, and network operators for hosting its servers in their data centers.

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adopting a legal standard prohibiting commercially unreasonable practices is not the most effective or appropriate approach for
protecting and promoting an open Internet.

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The Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David.[

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A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit designed to be configured by a customer or a designer after manufacturing – hence "field-programmable".

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While chief technology advisor to President-Elect Obama, Julius Genachowski was a strong advocate of a net neutrality principle. #nondiscrimination

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Allowing Internet service providers to control what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the principles that have made the Internet such a success. But such things have already begun to happen

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The plesiochronous digital hierarchy is a technology used in telecommunications networks to transport large quantities of data over digital transport equipment such as fibre optic and microwave radio systems.

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The Due Process Clause provides that no states shall deprive any “person” of “life, liberty or property” without due process of law. The substantive interests of the American public vastly outweigh the liberty of contract granted private companies.

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2 billion electrons are required to produce a single email. #FedComComm @BrendanCarrFCC

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The word "badger" comes from the French word "becheur" meaning "digger" #PacketLatency @SenWhitehouse

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While chief technology advisor to President-Elect Obama, Julius Genachowski was a strong advocate of a net neutrality principle. #PacketLatency

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As of 2014, 99.7% of the 5.83 million employer firms had less than 500 employees. 89.4% had less than 20. Small businesses are able to thrive because of the opportunities provided by the internet, and removing a fair playing field will be injurious to the economy

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The concept of network neutrality originated in the age of the telegram in 1860 or even earlier, where standard (pre-overnight telegram) telegrams were routed 'equally' without discerning their contents and adjusting for one application or another.

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the average bandwidth speed in South Korea and Japan is 22Mbps. In comparison, the average internet speed in the U.S. is 8.4Mbps. #FCCBADGER

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Net neutrality rules are designed to prevent ISPs from blocking or limiting access to websites and applications that compete either against the ISPs' own services or the services of companies that pay ISPs for better access to consumers.

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the ideas underlying net neutrality have a long pedigree in telecommunications practice and regulation. #nondiscrimation @SaxbyChambliss

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The capacity of an optic fibre is often extended with wavelength division multiplexing, rather than rerigging new fibre. #badgerfacts @GrahamBlog

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Between 2005 and 2012, five attempts to pass bills in Congress containing net neutrality provisions failed. Each sought to prohibit ISPs from using variable pricing models based upon the user's Quality of Service level.

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Synchronous optical networking and synchronous digital hierarchy are standardized protocols that transfer multiple digital bit streams synchronously over optical fiber using lasers or highly coherent light from light-emitting diodes.