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Yes except the gun is used to kill anybody who doesn't pay up. I think the general idea is that yes, all your services will degrade in quality except for the s
by bitJericho 12y ago
Yes except the gun is used to kill anybody who doesn't pay up.
I think the general idea is that yes, all your services will degrade in quality except for the services that pay the ransom. Sure your VPN will make everything equal, except eventually if the QoS scheme works well for the ISPs they could also move to datacaps that don't get used up by the services that pay the ransom.
- diminoten 12y agoSo you'd arrest these ISPs for pre-crime then? Every gun owner could shoot you in the face if they wanted to, therefore they're all guilty?
- bitJericho 12y agoI don't think I ever said that all ISPs are going to do this. I also don't think any ISP needs to charge customers twice for accessing the internet (eg, own the gun in the first place). I think this is where the gun simile breaks down because while a gun may have valid uses relating to protection, internet non-neutrality has no uses except to line the pockets of monopolies.
- diminoten 12y agoThe whole point of the gun analogy is to illustrate how terrible the, "just because they can, means they will" argument is. That's it. Think no more of it beyond that.
- bitJericho 12y agoThey already are with Netflix. And it has been noticable by the users.
- diminoten 12y agoCurrently? No, they're not. There is no "Netflix" option from Comcast that a consumer can purchase to increase their Netflix streaming speed.