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In the strangest of ways, I hope that ISPs do get the ability to "exercise editorial control" - because I think that will be the proverbial straw that breaks th
by rayvy 8y ago
In the strangest of ways, I hope that ISPs do get the ability to "exercise editorial control" - because I think that will be the proverbial straw that breaks the camels back (i.e., sparks the kind of innovation needed to break the ISP monopoly).
- skybrian 8y agoMany websites are encrypted already. What sort of interference did you have in mind? Maybe interference would accelerate that trend a bit, but it doesn't seem to require all that much innovation?
- richmarr 8y agoDoes it matter that the content is encrypted? Surely the main issue in a non-neutral world is the throttling of traffic from specific sources based on commercial priorities. The sources can be identified by IP regardless of whether the content is encrypted.
- skybrian 8y agoOkay, they could still throttle. I was thinking of other things like ad injection, DNS redirection, and so on.
- nisa 8y ago> i.e., sparks the kind of innovation needed to break the ISP monopoly How so? Internet is infrastructure, LTE is infrastructure (from the same ISPs) - mesh networks don't scale due to inefficient wifi and too little spectrum. You can't break physics. The innovation you have is paying for a VPN and pay up for your non-ISP-netflix traffic. What do you think would be possible? If it's over the air it will be regulated and licenced (i.e. non public spectrum) and if it's not over the air you have huge costs nobody is willing to pay to build a network (even Google ditched Fiber due to costs?)
- ypeterholmes 8y agoThey wouldn't be using the term innovation if the solution was obvious... Within the options you laid out, perhaps advances in mesh networking working in combination with licensing non-public spectrum would cut it. Certainly Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple have the resources to make something else work if the current ISP's get massively out of line.
- alphabettsy 8y agoThey’ll do what we’ve seen companies do time and time again, use their deep pockets to position themselves to take best advantage.