Rushkoff proposes we abandon the Internet, and create something better

Re:Rushkoff proposes we abandon the Internet, and create som... by Semiapies on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @06:40PM (#2069062)

I'm trying to figure out what the net neutrality reference was for, besides an attention-getting throwaway line.

In some hypothetical future inter-net that is truly decentralized and magically not subject to "lawmakers and lobbyists", there could be no neutrality, since the system would be (somehow) free from any authorities who could impose neutrality.

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Re:Rushkoff proposes we abandon the Internet, and create som... by wmf on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @06:53PM (#2069113)

Perhaps he imagines neutrality to be the default state of a lawless Internet, not something imposed from outside.

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Re:Rushkoff proposes we abandon the Internet, and create som... by Semiapies on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @07:27PM (#2069231)

That's definitely imaginative.

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Re:Rushkoff proposes we abandon the Internet, and create som... by spot on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @09:58PM (#2069648)

as long as the mesh is wide enough, then if someone tries to block a port or protocol, presumably the network would route around it. unless everyone hates it...

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Re:Rushkoff proposes we abandon the Internet, and create som... by Semiapies on Friday January 07, 2011 @01:31PM (#2080505)

This assumes that the cost of doing so is zero. In the real world, it isn't.

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