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I was with you up to the last crazy socialist sentence. If the newspapers can't survive, (I for one still like reading my daily non-electronic paper), let them
by axod 17y ago
I was with you up to the last crazy socialist sentence.
If the newspapers can't survive, (I for one still like reading my daily non-electronic paper), let them die.
ISPs should simply be a pipe. Nothing more, nothing less.
- swombat 17y agoOh, I agree - I don't think that should happen. I just think that it's an uneasy "let's keep our eyes closed" arrangement to begin with. If the Telcos want to open their eyes instead, they might find they have a lot more to lose than to gain. Ditching Net Neutrality will cost them a whole lot more than it will gain them, as soon as content providers realise that actually, the providers should be paying them, not the other way around. I mean, if Telefonica wants to block access to youtube, why should Google stop them? Fine. Block it. And lose 80% of your customers overnight. If Google wanted to play this game, they should be asking Telefonica to pay them money. It's not a long step from this to having bloggers, newspapers, etc, organise in collectives that can charge telcos for "access to every newspaper on the web" or "every blog on the web".
- thefahim 17y agoISPs (Comcast, ugh!) have monopolies in a ton of areas in the states. Block YouTube and it'll lose 80% of it's traffic overnight, not the other way around.
- axod 17y agoThe article was about Europe AFAIK, which is certainly far more diverse in ISP offerings. In the UK you have a choice from a few hundred ISPs, so there is no real monopoly here.