fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
join:2005-05-20
kudos:3 | huh? What is so bad about an ISP wanting to move to a metered billing? What is so bad about being able to protect their own business models? I can see that some foundation needs to be laid when it comes to the ISP industry and it's going to be give and take on both sides, but I think this is getting a little too far.. You guys are screaming bloody murder.. we're NO where near that point, yet.. |
chimera
join:2009-06-09
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| The concern here is that the claim isn't even metered billing. It's that this organization is arguing that ISPs ought to be allowed to censor and monitor all traffic going over their network. So if they don't want you to send out an email containing content critical of them you can't. If a site says something negative about them, they ought to be able to simply block it.
Heck according to this argument he is even saying that ISPs have the right to use deep packet inspect and selectively block any content they don't want. Since the internet is a global network regulation of it does fall to congress as it is used for trade and if you feel like cracking out the Constitution Article 1, Section 8 states that Congress has the power, "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes".
This is why congress was allowed to step in and start regulating railroads, and this is also why they have full authority to regulate public interstate networks such as (you guessed it) major ISPs. |
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Today's ISP's have the same attitude that the Railroads had in the 1880's. They engaged in discriminatory pricing practices. A number of newspapers were victims of the Robber Barron's when many Railroads refused to deliver newsprint to newspapers that wrote negative articles about them. If they did not like a customer or a customer's attitude or what the customer said about them in print they wouldn't carry the customers stuff. After the newspapers that were victimized by the Railroads wrote stories about the abuses, Americans finally got fed up with the Robber Barron's Crap and forced the US Government to take action and create the Interstate Commerce Commission. What the ISP's need is a backlash from consumers and a good dose of regulation. Unfortunately payola reins on K-Street and consumers have little hope for relief.