[opendtv] Re: EU approves controversial Copyright Directive, including internet ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’
- From: "Manfredi (US), Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 02:30:13 +0000
John Shutt wrote:
Here’s the happy ending to Bert’s drive for a government-regulated
“Net Neutrality” scheme.
That is known as "FUD," John. We have had guaranteed telecom neutrality for
over 110 years, and the sky never fell. (Not only that, the Internet would
never have become a ubiquitous household service, were it not for the fact that
the telcos *had* to allow access to ISPs.)
If anything, what the EU is doing is *against* neutrality. They are trying to
get in the knickers of the users, much like our FCC Chairman keeps trying to
do, to distract attention from his actual job description. Net neutrality has
NOTHING to do with controlling FB, Twitter, or what John Shutt is allowed to
say. Net neutrality means that the telecoms have to be NEUTRAL wrt the users of
the telecoms. Very simple. If someone has to monitor for theft of IP or
whatever, that would probably be the FTC, not the FCC.
You might as well warn us about "black helicopters," the knee-jerk reaction of
anti-government paranoia.
Bert
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