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Yea, the chicken sandwich example is .. interesting. I mean it works in this really basic example and I think it will help the lay-person get the general idea.
by djsumdog 9y ago
Yea, the chicken sandwich example is .. interesting. I mean it works in this really basic example and I think it will help the lay-person get the general idea.
A more accurate analogy would be in a food court:
For free, you're allowed to access Taco Hell, Burger Thing, and Mc Doubles.
For $5/month, you get a special pass that also sets you access Suppression Chicken[1], Pizza Slut and Baskin Toboggans
For $8/month, you get an extended pass that lets you get into the line for a few more diabetes joins.
You can get in any of those lines without a pass, but it will cost $1/visit.
This is of course, limitation of service (which is already done in some countries, like Optus Australia which gives you unmetered Facebook and Twitter that doesn't count against your mobile data), or African ISPs that give people free Wikipedia (which is arguably, kinda a good thing -- which is what makes this tricky).
The other aspect is quality of service. Say you could get to all those fast food joins for free, but you bought passes that put you in different positions in the queues (which is more like what we see with the Burger King example). It's like the airport pre-check. Pay government extortion prices and you get to jump to the front of the line, while everyone else gets molested by the TSA.
[1] Chick-Fil-A .. if you didn't get that one
Edit: formatting
- chrischen 9y agoWikipedia is a nonprofit, so it is arguably different from a commercial company paying for preferential access.
- Spivak 9y agoI think the problem with this analogy is that nobody would argue that a mall or theme park doesn't have the right to do this. Hell delivery services could also do this too without much fuss. If Taco Hell wants to pay DoorStash to get preferential treatment on deliveries or to be excmpted from delivery fees they wouldn't even have to be sneaky about it -- both companies would probably advertise it as a feature.
- WWLink 9y agoThanks, you just reminded me of the cringe worthy commercial-inside-a-commercial that theme parks like to do on the radio now. xD
- smileysteve 9y ago> nobody would argue that a mall or theme park doesn't have the right to do this I feel like the DisneyWorld / SixFlags priority / qbot system is all the commercial we should need to explain why fast lanes are bad. You can ride 4 rides in the time I stand in one line? you elitist pig.
- jiggunjer 9y agoExcept customers can choose not to eat at the food court if they don't like the system, they won't starve they'll just go somewhere else. Boycotting / refusing your ISP is like going on hunger strike.
- megablast 9y agoThey could do it in an industrial park, where that is your only option.
- DonaldPShimoda 9y ago> Suppression Chicken[1] > > [1] Chick-Fil-A .. if you didn't get that one CFA stopped funding all the super-militant anti-LGBT groups years ago. Huffington Post featured a story [1] about the CFA founder, Dan Cathy, becoming friends with prominent gay rights activist Shane Windmeyer, and some of the subsequent changes in how the organization handles things. Unless you were referring to some other nefarious/sinister business aspect of which I am unaware? (Totally possible; I don't follow them terribly closely.) [1] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/shane-l-windmeyer/dan-cathy-chick-fil-a_b_2564379.html https://www.huffingtonpost.com/shane-l-windmeyer/dan-cathy-c...