[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: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 02:59:09 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
That is one of the most ridiculous things you have ever written.
Consumers did not have access to the Internet during the 1980s.
Just how obtuse are you, Craig? Consumers, even those who did not have access
to the Internet through school or through their jobs, DID have Internet service
throughout most of the 1990s. Right? And for that, all they had was dialup.
Title II dialup. Even if you, personally, had only the vaguest understanding of
the Internet, many others were quite familiar with Internet service. Well
before broadband. What it was, what it was not.
I repeat. BFD. The Internet was not a success because of telephone
lines.
Just because you were clueless about it does not mean it wasn't a success. The
success, the initial "killer apps," were e-mail and FTP sites. And those Title
II telephone lines are the ONLY REASON why the numb-sculls today think that it
grew without regulation. ISPs were widely available, and barely regulated if at
all, ONLY BECAUSE of regulation of the phone lines. Matter of fact, the telcos
complained about phone lines remaining "nailed up." And quite a few people got
two phone lines at home, one for telephone, the other dedicated to Internet
service.
That's how the Internet grew, Craig. With broadband, on the other hand, came
funny business, caused by monopoly service.
The info graphic did not provide the rationale,
Look at it again. I saw the rationale, I retained what it said, you need to
look again and grasp these things. Look at why Comcast won, back in 2007.
Comcast now terminates the service of customers who abuse Bit Torrent
Completely irrelevant. I already said, at least twice, not to make BitTorrent
the issue here. The issue is what they argued, in 2007.
Parenthetically, BitTorrent is not much use these days, especially if your
upload and download speeds are the same. Let's see if Craig can explain why,
without arguing nonsense before getting the point.
Bert
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