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Monday, May 15, 2006
Internet Neutrality sell-out
5 comments:
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Anonymous said...
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How big a tin can? That's a new, albeit apt, definition of "Internet Neutrality," but the definition's immaterial. The important thing is that there is big money being ladled out to a weird assortment of bedfellows. As long as folks like you are staying alert to it and blogging about it, however, I think it will all work out well in the end. I just hope you don't have to stay plastered too much longer. That plaster stuff is more expensive than either gasoline or votes!!!
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5/16/06, 8:33 PM
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Anonymous said...
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I do think it's ironic that google is shouting "freedom!" here in the U.S. after what they were party to in China.
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5/17/06, 5:50 AM
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Anonymous said...
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Competition makes the world go round. If it wasn’t for competition we would all be working on giant apple computers and talking on can & string telephones. Google is afraid of competition. They are afraid they will have to fork out a little dough for premium service. Well…join the club – we as consumers have been doing that for decades. If I want premium service, I expect to pay for it. There is nothing free in this world.
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5/17/06, 7:44 PM
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Anonymous said...
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This entire issue is about competition. These companies should be allowed to fight it for the consumer's dollar and the government should stay on the sidelines in the internet issues. Their is no problem yet, this is simply about companies wanting to proveide better serves than their competitors.
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5/17/06, 11:41 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Incorrect.
The issue is that the people lobbying for an end to net neutrality want to be permitted to commit extortion.
They already charge for bandwidth. That's not the issue. The issue is that the telecommunications companies are wanting to charge their customers based on the value of the content they recieve. In short they have seen the content providers profiting, and are wanting to gouge them.
Picture a trucking line that charged you based, not on weight or volume, but based on your percieved profit margin. Picture a taxi company that didn't charge you based on the distance traveled but on how rich they think you are. Or a phone company that made you pay extra on long distance if they thought you were getting or recieving valuable information on the phone. ("Oh, gramma included her recipe for homemade brownies? that'll be fifty cents extra.")
What's more, they aren't GIVING the extorted more bandwidth out of thin air. They will provide it *by leaching bandwidth from everyone else.*
Again, picture a phone company where every time some other guy drops a dime in his phone, HIS connection gets better while YOURS gets worse.
This isn't what I, or anyone else with common sense, would call "competition." It's called GOUGING.
And yes, the butthats at Google are against it. But even a blind pig can find the occasional acorn. -
8/15/06, 2:13 PM
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