[opendtv] Re: This is why the government should never control the internet - The Washington Post
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 01:16:48 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
The fact is, had the Internet been introduced by the cable TV media,
with no culture of neutrality, there is nothing chiseled on any
stone to imply what you have been telling us, Craig. No culture of
neutrality, that the public was exposed to.
All of this is irrelevant. The reality is that people were exposed to
the benefits of digital networking, and when the World Wide Web
became accessible it quickly decimated the walled gardens due to its
NEUTRALITY.
Your circular "reasoning," and I'll use that word very loosely, is too absurd
for words. Use your head. There never would have been a WWW, starting 1994,
EXCEPT FOR the fact that people could easily bypass the walled gardens. Your
arguments are simply vapid.
You argued, not me, that the public had an expectation of neutrality from the
Internet. That argument is flat wrong. The public came around to that
expectation, soon enough, when they discovered how easy it was to change ISPs.
ONLY during the dialup era. **That same public** is fully aware of how things
have changed in this regard. That's why the FCC gets 22 million people telling
them to retain neutrality guarantees.
What crap. Apple did not operate sites other than iTunes,
This is an equally idiotic argument. It's about the same as attempting to
argue, now, that Apple should instantly stop supporting Adobe Acrobat, because
Apple is busy developing some "new standard" to take its place. It's just plain
stupid, Craig. And that's what Apple did with Flash. Astonishing that these
things need to be belabored for years, and still you don't get it.
Bert
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