amungusPremium
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| smear willing to smear anything it sounds like.
how can one honestly be anti neutral?
the chewbacca defense is getting old on this.
somebody with brains and some political pull needs to step up and put this in the light it deserves.
I guess Bill Gates, Google, DSL Reports, and countless others are just clueless about how the internet works /sarcasm...
It's not like MS, Google, and others haven't made a mint on the internet...
they have no idea how much "better" the 'net could be without neutrality /sarcasm......... |
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| said by amungus:willing to smear anything it sounds like. how can one honestly be anti neutral? Both sides are doing a nice job of smearing the other here. And both sides keep mixing up net neutrality with how many providers are available to the last mile. So far, there are no real net neutrality problems. Both are fighting over what MAY BE a problem in the future.
I think we should wait and see if there is going to be a problem based on abuse of net neutrality before we legislate and regulate it to death.
And Lessig's main gripe about the US falling behind(which I don't agree with) has nothing to do with net neutrality. It has more to do with taxpayer supported subsidization of the telecom industry in some countries.
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"somebody with brains and some political pull needs to step up and put this in the light it deserves."
Brains and political pull? Those words are to close together in that sentence, please retract it. :P |
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 redxiiPremium,Mod
join:2001-02-26
Sherwood, MI | reply to amungus
If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit. |
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ctachme
join:2003-11-29
Traverse City, MI | reply to amungus
"how can one be against net neutrality?"
Simple- someone can believe that when a company spends billions of dollars to create something they can charge for the use of it however they want. Imagine if the government said that Airline providers had to charge equal rates for everyone, neverminding that the airlines invested their money in the planes in the first place.
It would be one thing if the internet was publicly financed, like the highway system here. But it isn't, the backbones are private property and therefore it's the right of the corporate fat cats to charge however they want for them. If you want the government to spend billions of dollars to build a public network, that's great. But as it is, the government shouldn't have the power to legislate to people how they're allowed to charge for use of their private property.
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 BuriedCaesarIt's Not Polite To Stare.
join:2004-03-27
Richardson, TX | reply to fAcEtIOUs
said by fAcEtIOUs:I think we should wait and see if there is going to be a problem based on abuse of net neutrality before we legislate and regulate it to death. By the time any abuse is observed / discovered / reported / exists then it will most likely be too late for anyone to do anything about it. That's what many on the one side of this debate are hoping - and they're scrambling like mad to stay ahead of the legislation game so they can be "grandfathered" or exempted or overlooked when the time comes.
It may already be too late.
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 MaxoYour tax dollars at work.Premium,VIP
join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL | reply to fAcEtIOUs
said by fAcEtIOUs:And both sides keep mixing up net neutrality with how many providers are available to the last mile. Yeah, that keeps frustrating me. I'm curious as to how many out there debating the issue even understand it. |
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