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karlmarx
join:2006-09-18
iraq
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What are you babbling about? Privacy most certainly has many degrees. If I'm talking on my phone in my car, you may know that, but you sure don't know WHO I'm talking to. That's because the CONSTITUTION GUARANTEES it. Ever heard of the 4th amendment? You know, search and seizure. The problem is that our RIGHTS are not currently extended to the megacorps. Sure, the ISP has the right to know that I'm using the internet, but they have no RIGHT to know what I'm using it for. They are abusing their monopoly powers to take something in the interest of making more money, and that's just wrong.
Network neutrality ensures that that the megacorps do NOT turn their monopoly position into one which limits our rights. That's why it's so important. We are paying for INTERNET ACCESS, NOT 'access to Disney and Fox and ABC websites'. That's where the internet will be heading (it already has in some places).
As far as the camera and the microphone, that's a perfect example of degrees of privacy. If I don't make any noise, then they don't know what I'm doing. If they had the camera too, then I wouldn't have any privacy at all.
It's not a black and white issue. It's not an issue of profit. It's an issue of the rights of human dignity, which the megacorps have proven time and time again they don't care about.
Hell, if the government nationalized broadband, sure it would be slower, and sure it wouldn't be as good, but at least we'd have our protected rights to go along with it. Giving up rights for a lower prices isn't a very good tradeoff.
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HEDP
join:2008-04-27
Miami, FL
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Well if you believe that privacy has degrees, by my thinking it does not because the moment one door is open, it leaves access to all other doors. But if you are referring to simply ISPs selling your data that's another subject entirely that goes beyond privacy.
As for net neutrality, hey the way I see it, it's their network their resources and all I am doing is paying for is access, if they decide that's what they want to do then they will lose me as a customer. It does not matter what a company says, if they are going to bleed thousands or millions of customers in less than a week over a decision such as selling per website, they won't do it, it's like committing suicide. | |
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