1 edit | Gotta say NO! There is no justification for the Telco's, the Cable Industry or any other party to restrict, tier-meter or create artificial classes of of services not generated by, or intrinsic in the infrastructure, especially when it comes to content. The business of providing communication infrastructure MUST be separated from the provision of content, else inequity, discrimination, and manipulation of the marketplace will displace or relegate whole demographic subdivisons to second or third class status, establish an anti-competive oligarchic market structure, and reduce the overall economic opportunity, class mobility and personal freedom in our society.
As in the other front page story re the evolution of TV and journalism in the internet era, we cannot afford to allow entrenched interests to dictate the availability, quality and substance of the experience and sharing of our culture. |
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| The USA Today story quotes: "They only pay for a broadband loop from a central office to their home," said Whitacre [of AT&T]. Delivering content from Web servers to end users "takes huge (network) backbones to get across the country."
And there's the rub. You thought you were paying for a connection to the Internet backbone. They want to charge you extra for the connection to the internet backbone. They cannot stand the idea that you might have access to content on which they cannot collect revenue. |
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 calvoiper
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Belvedere Tiburon, CA | Actually, they don't want to charge "you" (the end user) more $$. They want to extort more $$ from content providers, who aren't even their customers.
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VoIP--the death knell of remaining voice monopolies! |
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