[opendtv] Re: B&C: Title II Rollback Reaction Rolls On
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 02:30:06 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
What was critical at the time was not the need for "net neutrality,"
it was the need for Netflix to take responsibility for the traffic
they were dumping onto the ISPs.
Those who were awake at the time got exactly the taste of how a non-neutral
Internet broadband provider would behave. Right when the FCC was debating what
to do about insuring that the Internet remain neutral. Couldn't have come at a
better time. It's sort of reminiscent of another really dumb move, when the
Russians were looking for better ties with the West. First, invade South
Ossetia, then invade the Crimean peninsula. It's sort of like, "Huh??" Yes,
they too had their reasons. But there's hardly any doubt that the moves
backfired. (This will befuddle Craig, who will ask what the Russians and Crimea
have to do with net neutrality. Just to say, I won't belabor the obvious.)
What was critical at the time was the fact that Netflix needed to
work with the ISPs to deploy the edge server infrastructure
Those who were awake remember that Netflix offered to do precisely that.
Sorry Bert. The Wheeler FCC had an open proceeding that was likely
to make zero rating of bits illegal under the Open Internet Order.
And you, Craig, kept preaching very much the same thing. "Separate content from
carriage." Now, conveniently, you forgot. You're just as disingenuous as this
new FCC.
The current debate is NOT about net neutrality Bert. The debate is
about the overreach of government
What complete crap. The debate is precisely about net neutrality, and
guaranteeing it. It is the paranoid lunatic far right yahoos that want to twist
it into being about "black helicopters" monitoring what you watch and what you
browse, so "the government can better control the Internet."
The FCC has to respond to the people, Craig. Monopolies do not. Monopolies, or
quasi monopolies, don't need to care about anything except their shareholders.
That's why regulations are needed.
You mean one of the only Federal government services that is
authorized by the Constitution?
Well sumbich, Craig. Are you telling me that the Constitution authorized only
the Pony Express, and not broadband Internet? Damn! I wonder what they had
against the Internet? Too fast, maybe? Using ponies is more, what, quaint?
Maybe the framers were after quaint. Wires and radio waves are too impersonal.
THe Internet is MANY things, not a telephone service.
Again, ROTFL. This is Craig, who just "informed me" about VoIP. You should have
said, "The Internet is many things **and** provides telephone service too."
Maybe then, you would wake up to what all of this is about, Craig.
Our problems won't go away until we teach people to think, not run
and hide from the truth.
Being blatantly disingenuous is not "the truth," Craig. The truth is telling it
like it is. Not pretending to agree with something, with appeasing prose, and
then doing precisely the opposite. Time and again. That's being "a phony," and
nothing more.
Bert
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