[BC] The "Net Neutrality" proper position to have ??

[Jeff Carter]

IANAL, but as I read it that's exactly what it means.

It gives corporations the power to shatter the Internet into a hundred
islands based on individual corporate interest, not the interest of
the consumer.

The past few years have been very instructive on the matter of how
free enterprise gets throttled by deep-pocket interests.  Consumers
will simply be offered a choice that in reality is no choice at all,
like the way we currently do cell phone service as opposed to the way
the rest of the modern world does it.

In too many places, there's no alternative for service because the
ILEC morphed into the ISP and they own all the incoming physical
plant, and giving that entity the power to control what gets in and
out and at what speeds gives them way too much control in an
environment where they already have too much.

NetNeutrality, in my view, is a way to make certain that the
government-protected phone company monopolies don't become defacto
Internet service monopolies and especially so in rural areas.

America already lags the free world in data throughput speeds, largely
due to lack of planning on the part of the FCC in the beginning.
There has been no vision there for years, and they've been hamstrung
by refusing to obtain ongoing engineering expertise as opposed to
legal expertise, preferring to listen to lobbyists and sales people
instead of actual RF people.

But what do I know?  I'm just an engineer...you know, one of those odd
sorts of janitor that just happens to know where to hit the
transmitter when it quits working.

Jeff

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:35 PM, wpio fm 89.3 <wpio at gate.net> wrote:
> On 11/23/2010 1:15 PM, Gary Glaenzer wrote:
>> the proper position, in my opinion, is not just 'no', but 'H*LL NO!!!'
>
> Is that as a broadcaster or a consumer?
>
> If net neutrality were not passed, doesn't it mean that Brighthouse, for
> example, could throttle back their own broadband customers who use
> Netflix?  (since Netflix hurts cable subscriptions?)
>
> Randy
> wpio
>
>