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I wonder where lines are drawn in regards to spam when it comes to net neutrality. I remember listening to an owner of a local ISP talk about how how spam could
by ryanelkins 17y ago
I wonder where lines are drawn in regards to spam when it comes to net neutrality. I remember listening to an owner of a local ISP talk about how how spam could easily overrun their capacity to serve paying customers if they couldn't control what was moving over their bandwidth. It's a side of net neutrality that most people don't seem to consider.
2.5 petabytes is a quite a bit of bandwidth being eaten up.
- lucifer 17y agoThis is too radical a correlation. The issue is the protocol - it was designed to let colleague in academia and military to exchange messages (with all the weight of their collective social contracts bearing on their use of the system). It wasn't designed to allow sleazy characters across the globe to engage in harassment through messaging. Maintaing 'net neutrality' in conjunction with committing to the necessity of evolving net protocols to address end user responsibility is a viable path forward. If the choice comes to rewriting software stacks or giving up certain rights, then I'm 100% on the side of the rewrite. (Its just code, after all.)
- nzmsv 17y agoI suppose an ISP's customer could opt-in to receive spam. I'm sure there will be many takers :)