Re:The Net Neutrality Hysteria
by dangerlibrary on Thursday May 22, 2014 @11:15PM
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It's not a new set of laws. It's the same set of rules that have been imposed on telephone companies and other utility providers for decades. It's a set of rules that the FCC already has the legal authority to impose. The google-able term is "common carrier".
Re:The Net Neutrality Hysteria
by grimtrigger on Thursday May 22, 2014 @11:27PM
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Is that really an apt comparison? I assume the infrastructure for telephone companies in entirely different than the infrastructure for ISPs. Namely: that the variation in data that goes through phone companies is entirely different than the type that goes through ISPs.
Re:The Net Neutrality Hysteria
by dangerlibrary on Thursday May 22, 2014 @11:34PM
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You might not know it, but in asking me this question, you are asking me if I think that ISPs are telecommunications services.
Yes, I think that ISPs are telecommunications services. Ask AT&T what kind of spiky demand for phone bandwidth they see during and immediately after a hurricane, or on Mother's Day.
Internet commerce (particularly in the United States) has flourished beyond anyone's wildest dreams over the last few decades without the federal government's intervention. Why exactly do we need a whole new set of laws to save us from a problem we don't have?
Corporations have a very long history of manipulating the very agencies that are supposed to regulate them...