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Whatever the upside or downside of net neutrality may be, the fact is that net neutrality laws are specifically and only about regulating the choices made by ro

by woah 12y ago

Whatever the upside or downside of net neutrality may be, the fact is that net neutrality laws are specifically and only about regulating the choices made by routing software. You are claiming that the government not regulating routing software on an extremely fine grained level is somehow "facism". You are as ridiculous as the politician in this article. In fact, net neutrality favors large monopolistic ISPs, while possibly making them slightly easier to bear. It forces information transmission to be a commodity, ensuring that only large monopolistic commodity providers can survive. It makes it impossible for any newcomers to take market share with innovation by making innovation illegal. Locally based networks providing fast access to their subscribers and filling in the slow times with other traffic? Illegal. Decentralized mesh networks allowing people to "mine" cryptocurrency with a transmitter on their roof? Illegal. Those are just two of the business models made illegal by net neutrality. I'm sure there are many more that I can't think of right now.

madaxe_again 12y ago
You've been busy watching the telco lobby propaganda, then. I'll grant that it's a powerful and emotional, if utterly false, argument that they put forth.
rakoo 12y ago
I think you got it backwards -- net neutrality is about making sure anyone can create a new protocol and be hooked to an ISP to serve their content through the Internet. > Locally based networks providing fast access to their subscribers and filling in the slow times with other traffic? Illegal. As an ISP subscriber, why would I want something other than what I decided on ? > Decentralized mesh networks allowing people to "mine" cryptocurrency with a transmitter on their roof? Illegal. I don't see what's illegal here. If you have a transmitter on your roof you are your own ISP. It is perfectly fine to not allow a kind of traffic if you're your own ISP.

by woah 12y ago

madaxe_again 12y ago

You've been busy watching the telco lobby propaganda, then. I'll grant that it's a powerful and emotional, if utterly false, argument that they put forth.

rakoo 12y ago

I think you got it backwards -- net neutrality is about making sure anyone can create a new protocol and be hooked to an ISP to serve their content through the Internet. > Locally based networks providing fast access to their subscribers and filling in the slow times with other traffic? Illegal. As an ISP subscriber, why would I want something other than what I decided on ? > Decentralized mesh networks allowing people to "mine" cryptocurrency with a transmitter on their roof? Illegal. I don't see what's illegal here. If you have a transmitter on your roof you are your own ISP. It is perfectly fine to not allow a kind of traffic if you're your own ISP.