Forget Net Neutrality, ISPs To Serve Up “Address Not Found”

Re:Forget Net Neutrality, ISPs To Serve Up “Address Not Found” by MaysonL on Wednesday October 15, 2008 @09:30PM (#334022)

In Vernor Vinge's novel A Deepness in the Sky, there is a line (which Google can't seem to find) something like this: "Any ubiquitous network on which local nodes are compelled to run government code inevitably devolves into tyranny." It sounds like a very dangerous slippery slope to start down.

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Re:Forget Net Neutrality, ISPs To Serve Up “Address Not Found” by lyesit on Wednesday October 15, 2008 @10:58PM (#334088)

Is this the passage that you were referring to? http://books.google.com/books?id=-t2y0JJ1ZYQC&dq=A+Deepn...

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Re:Forget Net Neutrality, ISPs To Serve Up “Address Not Found” by pasbesoin on Thursday October 16, 2008 @02:53PM (#334783)

I remain surprised that Vinge does not appear -- to my limited knowledge -- to get the same attention that some other SF masters do. His works are excellent, particularly "A Fire Upon the Deep" and "A Deepness in the Sky".

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