| I'm sure there's some inaccuracies, but I felt compelled to send something.
Sir,
I regret to inform you that your oratory on Net Neutrality was by far the most rediculous tripe I've heard in recent memory.
Let me address a few of the points you bring forth.
First, the Department of Defence doesn't have its own network because of delays on the internet, you even said it yourself, IT IS FOR SECURITY. A network separate from the general internet means that it is much more difficult to "hack", it protects your nation's security.
Second, commercial entities are what make the internet what it is. Your idea to have a separate commecial net would make the internet useless. All I would be able to do is send email to people. I couldn't purchase any goods or services on the net, since, you guessed it, people selling things are commercial entities. Nor would I even be able to perform a basic task like see who won the baseball game a couple hours ago. You worry about Net Nuetrality hurting broadband penetration in the United States. If the internet worked in a fashion you suggested, I guarantee that there would be few takes from the telcos or the cablecos. It's the content on the internet that makes me want to have a faster connection on the internet, which means that I pay my cable company more per month than I would if I were just sending and receiving emails. This in turn gives my cable company more money to do updgrades to their network, as well as incentive to offer higher speeds so that they could in turn secure more revenue from myself and hundreds of thousands of other subscribers they service. The company on the other end does the same thing with their internet provider, just on a much grander scale.
Also, your mention of streaming movies over the internet rather than having them sent via courier isn't just because it saves money for the company I'm purchasing said service from. Why wait a few days for something to come in the mail when I can have it in a matter of minutes? It is absolutely in the best interest of the end user, that consumer that you claim to be championing the cause of. It's win-win for both parties involved. THAT is one of the things that makes the internet such a viable communication medium.
The last point that I care to address is your notion that "The internet is tubes". Rediculous, fine, but I'll play along. What you clearly don't recognize is that the internet, in all its different applications, is literally millions upon millions of "tubes". If I want to send a photo to Johnny in Anchorage, I would hazard there are thousands of viable routes for that photo to get there. Any information is send is broken into small packets, and they get to their destination by taking whatever route is the fastest. Some may take route #1, but partway through that tube gets a little congested, so the rest take route #1985. It's not like all the information coming into Alaska over the internet runs into a funnel and only has one spigot. Bad delays for a packet of information are under a second, not 5 days as you quoted in your statement. More likely, there was an issue with user error, or with the company charged with delivering that email to you.
How do I know that? I'm sending this at 9:51 PM Eastern time, on July 3rd. I'm betting this gets to you and deleted before July 8th.
Regards from Toronto, Canada. |
