Here's a good graphic which (more or less) shows the history of net neutrality,
until 2014. Until just before the US net neutrality mandate, that is. This
includes European mandates on net neutrality.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/235335
The graphic begins in 1934 (i.e. about 30 years after the first telecom
neutrality mandates were imposed, but this was when the FCC was created), and
it shows "wins" for either the side of neutrality or non-neutrality tussle,
over the years. It ends in 2014, when the court overturned the FCC's initial
attempt to mandate neutrality. Although the graphic does not make it clear what
the court ruling actually was. Something Craig also missed, at the time. In
reality, the court was urging the FCC to do a complete job, as opposed to a
half-assed job.
Note the 2007 BitTorrent decision, which makes it abundantly clear WHY a
telecom classification is so important. I mean, in general, not just for that
one app.
The graphic shows that in 2014, more than a million people wrote to the FCC, to
reclassify Internet access as a telecom service. Which in reality, the FCC had
already done, years prior, even if not in a legal sense, by calling these new
services which were becoming available, "advanced telecom services." This time
around, 2017, a disbelieving public said to the FCC, whoa, we already settled
this, damn it, to the tune of about 22 million write-ins.
For services like CBS All Access overseas, in Europe anyway, according to this
graphic, it appears that all is well, in the legal sense.
Then here's another bit of real information for Craig and like-minded:
http://fortune.com/2017/05/10/fcc-net-neutrality-spammers/
To dispel the formulaic objections we get:
"And when reporters from The Verge started contacting the supposed authors of
the identical messages, they got denials all around. 'I have no idea where that
came from,' Lynn Vesely, supposed submitter of one of the comments, told the
website. Similarly, ZDNet found 128,000 identical anti-net neutrality comments
and denials from the supposed submitters."
First off, the bots were anti-neutrality. Perhaps more importantly, no one can
possibly claim that 128,000 fake responses were of any statistical
significance, in the face of some 22 million. Nothing more than FUD, from those
on the wrong side of this issue.
Bert
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