geminus wrote:
NHPats2011 wrote:
CaptainCorruption wrote:
NHPats2011 wrote:
CaptainCorruption wrote:If the internet isn't a utility at this point then I don't know what is.
Further, all the ISP's that I know of have governmentally supported territorial monopolies. Those fuckers can, are, and should be as regulated as WE THE PEOPLE, not THEY THE FUCKERS, dictate...
FUCK NO to "fast lanes"
BTW correct me if I'm wrong but these "fast lanes" wouldn't cost us end users more - we already pay for tiered end user speeds - this is about ISP's charging content providers more to go faster... ie Comcast charging Amazon for faster delivery to Captain Corruptions pc to the detriment of Mom and Pop's shop that's unable to pay for the better speed.
Does your electric company not charge you more if you use more ekectricty than your neighbor? Why should the Internet be different? What if these companies charged based on bandwidth usage?
They don't have metered rates to us end users per se, but they certainly do have speed based charges to end users. Meanwhile, they also have other ways of handling similar to business customers - the bigger geeks than me will have to clarify but a t1 line cost more than dsl line, and web hosts have bandwidth charges to what they host on their servers.
The "fast lanes" are a different way to gouge.
I agree that ISPs will try and find new ways to monetize their "product". Is this really a bad thing?
I will tell you this. I have spent plenty of time in China where "The Government" regulates and filters access to the Internet (all in the name of security of course). It is a hideous experience. Why should we believe our own Governmet, once involved, will not screw things up here?
Again with the counter-factual claims. Net neutrality literally opposes this, it doesn't pick winners or losers with data and doesn't let private providers do so either. If you oppose this then you support neutrality.
Net neutrality (also network neutrality or Internet neutrality) is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication. The term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003 as an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier.[1][2][3][4] Proponents often see net neutrality as an important component of an open Internet, where policies such as equal treatment of data and open web standards allow those on the Internet to easily communicate and conduct business without interference from a third party.[5] A "closed Internet" refers to the opposite situation, in which established corporations or governments favor certain uses. A closed Internet may have restricted access to necessary web standards, artificially degrade some services, or explicitly filter out content.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality
I thought he was supposed to be smart and not talk out his ass like Miss V.
Statistics: Posted by Hoosierback — Tue Nov 11, 2014 12:51 pm