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Be Informed, Please? Tracy Mitrano Said So!

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Their logo is really freaking sweet.
Their logo is really freaking sweet.
Last night, the non-partisan group Americans for Informed Democracy held a roundtable discussion on Net Neutrality led by Tracy Mitrano, director of Information Technology (IT) Policy at Cornell. The dinner-discussion is the first in a six-part weekly series* aimed at raising students’ awareness of issues pertinent to the 2008 Elections.

What is Net(work) Neutrality (NN)? It’s kind of complicated, but PCMag.com says it “states that all traffic be treated equally… that packets are delivered on a first-come, first-served basis regardless from where they originated or to where they are destined.” Basically, NN would have Internet Service Providers (ISPs) like Time Warner not be able to discriminate torrent-downloading traffic from mp3-downloading traffic from whatever. Unfortunately for us ‘Nets-lovin’ kids, Mitrano suggested that Net Neutrality and other internet issues — most notably archaic copyright laws — are not really election issues.

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National News: Governer of 47th Most Populous State Gets McCain VP Nod

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Overcompensating
Overcompensating
Republican blowhard John McCain announced that Alaska governor Sarah Palin will be his running mate in the 2008 Presidential Election. Is he trying to court disillusioned Hillary fanatics, a good deal of whom are female? More importantly, why are Alaska and Delaware, the 47th and 45th most populous states in the union, in the national spotlight? Everyone knows Delaware doesn’t exist. And Alaska? You know what they say about states with big land masses.

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