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I've never understood the clamor for government regulated Internet. Internet commerce (particularly in the United States) has flourished beyond anyone's wildes
by ryandvm 12y ago
I've never understood the clamor for government regulated Internet.
Internet commerce (particularly in the United States) has flourished beyond anyone's wildest dreams over the last few decades without the federal government's intervention. Why exactly do we need a whole new set of laws to save us from a problem we don't have?
Corporations have a very long history of manipulating the very agencies that are supposed to regulate them...
- dangerlibrary 12y agoIt's not a new set of laws. It's the same set of rules that have been imposed on telephone companies and other utility providers for decades. It's a set of rules that the FCC already has the legal authority to impose. The google-able term is "common carrier".
- grimtrigger 12y agoIs that really an apt comparison? I assume the infrastructure for telephone companies in entirely different than the infrastructure for ISPs. Namely: that the variation in data that goes through phone companies is entirely different than the type that goes through ISPs.
- dangerlibrary 12y agoYou might not know it, but in asking me this question, you are asking me if I think that ISPs are telecommunications services. Yes, I think that ISPs are telecommunications services. Ask AT&T what kind of spiky demand for phone bandwidth they see during and immediately after a hurricane, or on Mother's Day.
- shard972 12y agoWhat about the danger of re-classifying internet services such as google as a common-carrier?