[opendtv] Re: Tim Wu's paper
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 20:26:14 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
Correct. A role that they wrongly assumed by misinterpreting the law.
Nope. As I showed you again, the "information service" is subject to Title II.
Just read my preceding post.
No Bert. They are likely to return to the rules and enforcement regimes
in place before the Title II decision.
The Hepburn Act of 1906? The Mann-Elkins Act of 1910? Title II? All of these
mandate net neutrality, and all of them applied to providing ISP service during
the dialup era. Which includes, most importantly, 1996! Were it not for these
acts, the telephone companies could easily have blocked ISP service, or forced
only their own ISP service on people, and/or filtered out any sites they don't
want people to do business with. EASILY. Because the local phone company, back
then too, tended to be a local monopoly. Same exact problem as today, with
broadband service.
They are A spectrum manager Bert.
Yup. Whether it's the FCC, some other government agency, or even some public
corporation, makes no difference. It still can't be your libertarian
free-for-all.
Your argument falls flat when we look at the massive growth and
success of the cellular industry AFTER Congress forced the FCC to
auction spectrum and let the industries using this spectrum establish
the rules and evolve the technology.
More ignorance. The users of the spectrum can only use what the manager allows.
Otherwise, there would be a hopeless level of interference. You're circling
back to square one again, wasting time. We've been over this. The spectrum
manager is a MANAGER. Not the guy who designs the systems. The cellcos do not
police the usage of channels of their competition. The FCC does that.
MVPDs have not been "monopolies" for more than two decades.
They have existed for at least 4 decades, number one, and they continue to be
monopolies, or close to it, in the broadband era. In case you haven't noticed,
their DBS competition is struggling, and is morphing into the MVDP/ISP
business. Already been over all of this. Move beyond, Craig. Don't go
backwards. Makes it seem like you're not following these fundamental points.
I believe none of the above.
Really? You never argued that, say, that a search engine, was an integral part
of "the Internet infrastructure"? Do you need me to waste time and ferret out
that quote? I do not believe you understand the neutrality subject, Craig.
Bert
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