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by rsingel 3y ago
First you slide language into a report saying that all players should fund internet infrastructure - then you try to get parliament to adopt language in a competition report saying they support access fees, without any hearings. Luckily som
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by rsingel 3y ago
That's the exact game plan: https://www.trai.gov.in/sites/default/files/Reliance_JIO_Inf...
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by rsingel 3y ago
Here's the proceeding on it: https://www.trai.gov.in/consultation-paper-regulatory-mechan... Here's Jio's filing, claiming poverty: https://www.trai.gov.in/sites/default/files/R
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by rsingel 3y ago
It's not transit. Transit is about taking your data across a network to some other network or networks. These are access fees aka termination fees demanded to deliver data to a networks own customers on net. Net neutrality bans access
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It's not the actual cost. It's the Korean regulatory requirement that sending networks pay. That's why Cloudflare moved most CDN content out of S. Korea to Japan, and why Facebook did the same, and why Netflix sued SK Broadba
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by rsingel 3y ago
Telefonica's blog is amazing. They come out and say the outrageous things giant telecoms believe: that internet service should be 1) people pay them and then they get to connect to 2) the select group of websites and services that also
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by rsingel 3y ago
Sending Party Network Pays in telecom world is awful. The telecom you pay has a monopoly over accessing you, so they can charge whatever they want to terminate calls/data. Ask your parents or grandparents how expensive long distance or
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by rsingel 3y ago
ISPs have termination monopolies. They can charge what they like to reach their because there is literally no other path to them. Termination fees lead to high prices and weird arbitrage games. The long distance phone system works this way,
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Basically, if a Korean subscriber to a broadband network requests data from your app and you send it, you have to pay that person's ISP. It's a terrible economic model that punishes peering. Cloudflare and Facebook moved most of t
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by rsingel 3y ago
This is probably the first service ever to be effectively shut down in a country by anti-net neutrality policies. This is the model know as sending party network pays (the same model that led to international telephone calls costing $5 a mi
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by rsingel 3y ago
Everything Sanger knows about Stuxnet he borrowed from Kim Zetter without attribution. Goes double for Alex Gibney
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Also a reminder that AT&T has long done more than just collect records and let the feds have them. They've been data-mining them to create community maps and maybe even your historical location. They've done so for decades and
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Also the DMCA doesn't require Google to takedown sites based on obviously fraudulent DMCA notices. It's just that Google would lose its liability shield if the claim turned out to be real.
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by rsingel 3y ago
You get to do that because of net neutrality. The FCC in 2005 made it clear that ISPs couldn't block online services (Madison River blocking VoIP). In 2008, the FCC stopped Comcast from blocking Bittorent, establishing precedent that n
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by rsingel 3y ago
Why do you care what genitals people have? The strongest argument about why it matters is women's sports which conservatives always derided and still deride. But weirdly now people like you care about the purity of women's sports.
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by rsingel 3y ago
Why the hell is gender on a passport anyway? It's an unnecessary data point for the purpose of a passport
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by rsingel 3y ago
Somewhat ironically your link to Zenodo is malformed and goes to a non existent page. The correct URL is https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8252866
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by rsingel 3y ago
Small copy edit. In the FAQ, an other should be another. Looks really interesting and will check it out.
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by rsingel 3y ago
Looks really useful and love the design. Is there a way to change the currency? I'm U.S. based and would need it in $ and with ability to turn off VAT calculations
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by rsingel 3y ago
Oh I definitely agree companies are in violation of the law. It's enforced by the California AG, and you can complain to them directly. I didn't know about the AT&T business plan limitation. If it's a mass plan, that&#x27
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by rsingel 3y ago
Yeah, but most of those extra charges are because the FCC has failed to classify broadband as Title II. Because pure broadband hasn't been Title II, pure broadband providers have zero rights to get on utility poles. So Sonic bundles in
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by rsingel 3y ago
This is largely correct, though I would add that prior to 2004 nearly all broadband was delivered over telephone wire. That made it Title II. The first real net neutrality enforcement action was when FCC chairman Michael Powell under George
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by rsingel 3y ago
This is not true. FCC net neutrality rules apply to mobile carriers. So do the ones in California Europe India and Canada. There is leewway for a reasonable ment, but those measures can only be used temporarily during times of congestion an
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by rsingel 3y ago
This is correct and zero rating is now banned in the EU as a form of economic discrimination. It's also largely outlawed in Canada, the EU, and California.
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Zero rating has been banned in the EU because two court rulings found that zero rating's economic discrimination was just as bad as technical discrimination. You can't find or subscribe to a zero rating plan in the EU any more. Ex
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The 2015 federal protections and the California law apply both to fixed and mobile.
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No, it's not. Cutting back each user's allotment temporarily during times of congestion is necessary, but otherwise there's no technical reason to throttle, let alone choose one particular kind of app. If radio spectrum is so
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by rsingel 3y ago
Yup, and that ended when California's net neutrality law went into effect. Verizon still does it, except for in California.
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Your particular life might be, but it's likely because you are comfortable. The point of news is social change or social control (depending on who owns it), and the kind of news you lament being gone was never actually neutral. It also
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by rsingel 3y ago
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