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I find it interesting to see how so many people try to sound "reasonable" and find value in "compromise". Which is a good thing, 99% of the time. Except when th
by rickmb 16y ago
I find it interesting to see how so many people try to sound "reasonable" and find value in "compromise". Which is a good thing, 99% of the time. Except when the issue falls into "you can't be a little bit pregnant" category. IMHO, that is the case where Net Neutrality concerned. You can debate how to enforce it, or even if you should enforce it, how important it is, if it should be law, the ethics of it, whatever, but there is no such thing as "a bit of" or "an improvement in" Net Neutrality.
Any law or proposal that leaves gaping holes to manipulate traffic at will is against Net Neutrality. And so, apparently, is Google.
And btw, Net Neutrality did exist, for the longest time in the Internet's history. That's kind of the whole damn point, it brought us to where we are today. The fact that it wasn't enshrined in the law doesn't mean it didn't exist. All of which means that Google's proposal is a proposal to bury it, not defend it.
- antics 16y agoSo your proposal to fight one of the biggest lobbying forces in the world [http://www.freepress.net/node/62059 http://www.freepress.net/node/62059] is to demand that everything just be fixed all at once? You are out of your mind.
- gamble 16y agoYeah, who would ever do something that crazy? It would be like demanding automakers build safe cars or telling the tobacco industry not to market their product to children.
- jokermatt999 16y agoBoth those examples had a nice emotional component to them: automobile deaths and cancer patients. Try showing someone the harm of non-neutral networks without resorting to hypothetical situations or abstracts. I don't mean someone on HN, I mean the "average Joe" voter.
- antics 16y agoFunny you should mention that, because both of those things took DECADES to enact, through massive policy overhauls, with millions of man-hours of deliberation. Thank you for demonstrating my point.