What does former AT&T boss Ed “not gonna use my pipes for free” Whitacre know about cars? What do Canadians know about ‘Net Neutrality’? Not much.
Ed Whitacre, the one-time AT&T head who sparked the network neutrality debate with talk of “my pipes,” will now run the new General Motors… even though he admits to knowing nothing about cars.
“I don’t know anything about cars,” he told Bloomberg yesterday. “A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I’m not that old, and I think the business principles are the same.”
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Speaking of Net Neutrality …
The consensus reached was that most Canadians don’t know anything about net neutrality — or if they do, then they don’t think the issue affects them. “People view it as a nerdy thing,” joked Raymi. “The nerds will take care of it; who cares! Net neutrality needs to be dumbed down and loved up.”
On Monday night, the Gladstone Hotel held the first of three cross-Canada net neutrality discussions established by SaveOurNet.ca. The panel discussed a variety of internet-related topics, including throttling, public infrastructure, and the oligopolies of Bell and Rogers, but most of the debate focused on the movement’s deepest problem: how to sell the concept of net neutrality to average Canadians.
Read more at the torontoist.com
