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 funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
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Re: Have you ever heard of the free market? You're confused about Network Neutrality. Since the world does not need another Network Neutrality definition, I'll propose this way to think about it:
Network Neutrality is the name given to a set of guiding principles designed to continue the Internet's interoperable, non-discriminatory, end-to-end processing tradition. The Internet (the routing and forwarding network) was originally neutral because it generally lacked any information or capability that would make it otherwise, and since "more speed" was the demand, improved hardware capabilities over time was usually spent delivering more speed (not more functionality like DPI).
In recent years, network operators and network hardware manufacturers have been focusing less on speed improvements and more on services. As one might expect with any new and powerful technology, some of these uses are genuinely useful while others tend to be quite questionable. The secret deployment of this technology, whether useful or questionable, is also highly questionable.
In short, today's Network Neutrality efforts seem focused on maintaining the free, open, and level playing field that the Internet originally created.
Tiered access and bandwidth caps have nothing to do with Network Neutrality. People have always paid to access the network, and people have paid more to access it faster.
That doesn't mean people shouldn't object to bandwidth caps -- it means that the reason to disagree is something other than Network Neutrality. (Such as, I don't like caps because they stifle high-bandwidth application innovation, or I don't like TV companies imposing Internet caps because it is an anti-competitive act.)
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Robb Topolski -= funchords.com =- Hillsboro, Oregon
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| said by funchords:Tiered access and bandwidth caps have nothing to do with Network Neutrality. People have always paid to access the network, and people have paid more to access it faster. That doesn't mean people shouldn't object to bandwidth caps -- it means that the reason to disagree is something other than Network Neutrality. (Such as, I don't like caps because they stifle high-bandwidth application innovation, or I don't like TV companies imposing Internet caps because it is an anti-competitive act.) Stop making sense. You're confusing the drones with your damnable facts/logic! | |
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Doublespeak Always watch out when someone offers to tell you the "way to think about" something. It means that Doublespeak will follow. In the case of Robb Topolski, it means that you will get the views of Free Press, an inside-the-Beltway group of Washington lawyers and lobbyists who want to regulate the Internet and don't care at all about consumers. | |
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