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ERIK LEDBETTER
Rockville
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The regulatory nightmare that The Post fears would not come from adopting "net neutrality" policies but from trying to fix the mess if such policies were not enacted.
Policies advocated by AT&T Inc. would undermine citizens' ability to distribute bandwidth-intensive political messages such as the JibJab.com cartoons that lampooned the 2004 presidential candidates. They also would undermine the evolution of blogs and peer-to-peer technologies as vehicles for political debate.
Given recent news about Comcast's political tactics ["Md. Lawmakers Call for Probe of Comcast Ties," Metro, March 8], it isn't extreme to warn that an Internet service provider might give high-speed access to candidates for one party but not others.
ANDREW JAY SCHWARTZMAN
President and Chief Executive
Media Access Project
Washington
