A Letter to Senator Feinstein of California
I sent a letter to Senator Feinstein today after reading a disturbing news headline about the senator attempting to slip an amendment into the stimulus package. You can read a copy of her submission here.
I am not sure what motivated her to try this, but I told her that her methods were a little dubious, and gave my opinion. since I told her that she should debate this issue in the public, and not try to slip amendments in behind closed doors, it is only fair to do the same. here is the text of my email to her, in verbatim…
Mrs Feinstein,
It has come to my attention that you are attempting to include language in the Stimulus bill which would affect the neutrality of the internet. reading the proposal for amendment, a few things very quickly become quite clear. Aside from the fact that there is no effective method for monitoring network traffic for objectionable material (you could do some reading about Australia’s numerous failed attempts at this), this is MOST DEFINITELY NOT a stimulus issue.
I, and thousands of other watchdogs, will be certain to make this as obvious as possible to the public. I will also be certain to center it in the interests of the tens of thousands of people in your state who, as fellow IT professionals, would be extremely dissatisfied with the possible requirements to spend countless hours and large sums of money (which they cannot afford to spend in this economy) to attempt to comply with a ridiculous set of regulations which have very little probability of success in controlling the flow of illegal materials and a very high probability of adversely affecting almost all legitimate traffic.
This is neither an effective piece of legislation, nor a good way to remain in office. If you are honestly concerned about the issue of net neutrality, please have the courage to debate the issue in public where it can come under the light of truth, and succeed (or fail) on it’s true merit. Doing this in the cover of committee, and amending it to unrelated bills, will do nothing but recast the issue as scandal.
I will attempt to assist you in moving your concern into the public forum by posting a copy of this email on my website. feel free to comment there if you would like.
Thank You,
Kenneth C Coe, Jr
www.coehome.com
Aside from typographical and grammatical errors, I would always recommend that people copy my response. That is to say, that we should always contact our representatives when we see an issue that affects us, not that you should just repeat whatever I say (of course.) I will continue to watch our representatives actions, and to respond to them. I will also continue to attempt to get my viewers to do the same…
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