[opendtv] Re: Congress, the FCC & Internet Privacy: A Path to Protecting Americans Online | National Review
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2017 22:27:51 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
The FCC is not a cop on the beat. And what is wrong with self policing
by reputable businesses?
Ideally, nothing, obviously. Same goes with policing people. Too bad that
policing under the most ideal conditions isn't exactly all that matters.
Maybe you missed this part:
I hardly missed, it Craig. It's the part I found disingenuous.
So the reality is that most consumers, like myself, use multiple networks
to connect to the Internet; home broadband, cellular broadband, and a
range of WiFi hot spots connected to a variety of ISPs.
You use a variety of WiFi hotspots and ISPs to connect to the Internet from
home? Really Craig? The reality is that from home, you use your own Internet
broadband connection, even if through your home WiFi, and NOT your 4G service,
NOR a variety of ISPs, NOR a variety of WiFi hotspots. (Even assuming that 4G
is a separate company, which for some of us, it is not.) Outside the home,
sure, you don't know what you're getting. At home, you should know, without
having to beg.
The reality is that IF you use encrypted web services, they are encrypted only
for individual services. So your browsing habits are easily seen by the ISP.
For example, you go to your bank's web site, and THEN you launch the encrypted
session. The vast majority of people do not access all their Internet browsing
through an encrypted tunnel, through a firewall, and then from proxies within a
secure enclave.
The reality is that the amount of competition, for home broadband service, is
quite limited, and quite sticky too. You might have two choices, if you're
lucky, and switching is a hassle and a half. There is *nothing* wrong with
having these monopolistic companies tell their subscribers how they monitor
your activity, and to whom they sell the information. Even if your greeting
card website, or your free WiFi at Starbucks, isn't compelled to.
That is why we have wide range of internet services with varying
levels of privacy and security.
Exactly. I wonder why you didn't get that sooner. So, O'Rielly was indulging in
hyperbole, when he pretended not to get it. What goes for your monopolistic
home broadband service does not necessarily have to apply to all web sites. Duh!
The NYTimes article stated:
"The F.C.C. needs a more evidence-based approach," said Roslyn Layton, a fellow
at the American Enterprise Institute who was on Mr. Trump's F.C.C. transition
team. "No one is writing in and asking for Title 2 reclassification of
broadband. Consumers are complaining about unwanted calls and billing problems."
First of all, privacy, transparency, and net neutrality, are all included under
the same umbrella, so there is not bait and switch going on, Craig. And Pai
himself is mainly going after privacy and transparency, not so much net
neutrality. The NYT likes to pretend not to know this, but that doesn't mean we
too should shut off our brains too.
In addition, and this too is belaboring the obvious, that quote from the NYT
article is plainly, what's the word I'm looking for, stupid! **OBVIOUSY** no
one is demanding Title II **now**. It has already happened. You don't keep
demanding something you already have, for pete's sake. Fortunately, Pai has
already expressed his views on neutrality, and they are not to undo neutrality.
If the FCC attempted that, they would get as many millions of e-mails as they
got to make Wheeler change his mind on this topic.
Whether the precise tool the FCC wants to use is Title II, or something
different, Pai has indicated that neutrality per se is needed. And as I have
said many times, we have had more than century of neutrality laws imposed on
telephone networks, so there's absolutely no reason to feign utter cluelessness
as to why the same should apply to the Internet of today. This is hardly
something brand new. It's something the vast majority of people EXPECT.
Bert
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