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I personally think it's important to remember how the Internet worked with TBL invented the Web. Most importantly, everyone believed and implemented net neutral
by spinlock 10y ago
I personally think it's important to remember how the Internet worked with TBL invented the Web. Most importantly, everyone believed and implemented net neutrality. I think it's a very interesting thought experiment to imagine if we would even have the web had the University of Minnesota decided to drop all http packets to promote their competing gopher protocol.
The Web is the best example I can think of for why we still need net neutrality.
- 75dvtwin 10y agoI do not share the > The Web is the best example I can think of for why we still need net neutrality. I think the Web is best example of why we need privacy protection as it is a form of communication. I personally pay for a VPN. And I hope my right to use independently implemented (independent from Google/Facebook/ISPs) privacy preservation technology and de-anonymization-resistant technology is not lost, and instead encouraged by the legal system. In my view, the so called 'net neutrality' is simply a deceiving name for 'a subjective favoritism' given away (as political/economic favors) to some web-monetization players vs others. Eg. ISPs cannot favor/unfavor content providers, but yet Search engine company can favor/unfavor/rank content providers. So ISPs are labeled as 'evil' while search and social networking service providers are the 'good doers'.