Op-ed piece warns of government bureaucrats solving network traffic programs instead of engineers.
With news that the FCC is close to punishing Comcast for throttling BitTorrent it's worth mentioning that one of the dissenting commissioners, Robert M. McDowell, a Republican, wrote an op-ed piece in yesterday's Wall Street Journal criticizing government intervention in the matter.
So far three votes in favor of punishing Comcast come from Democrats Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein, and Republican chairman Kevin Martin, ensuring a majority and that the FCC will take action.
Comcast has acknowledged it slowed some traffic, but said it was necessary to prevent P2P traffic from hogging network resources.



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