[opendtv] ***UNCHECKED*** Re: Re: Re: AT&T Chief Calls for New Rules for Carriers, Tech Firms
- From: Craig Birkmaier <brewmastercraig@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 08:44:37 -0500
On Jan 26, 2018, at 9:51 PM, Manfredi, Albert E
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
When I first saw that idea in an article, it's been years now, I couldn't
believe my eyes. So I did a search on telecom neutrality, and of course,
quickly discovered the history of mandated telecom neutrality.
Please give it up Bert.
The “Telecom Neutrality” of the last century has no relationship to Net
Neutrality. It was primarily an excuse created by politicians and big business
to create government regulated monopolies.
But I frankly refuse to go back through all of this again.
No you don’t. You keep bringing this up every chance you get. As follows:
Telecom neutrality has been guaranteed to the American people for over 100
years. Everyone who uses the telecoms, including the Internet, depends on
that neutrality. The Internet is merely an evolved telecom service. It has
been called "advanced telecom service" by the FCC, ever since ISP service was
made available to consumers. I went through all of this in detail, quoting
from FCC documents. But I have stopped reading and responding to circular,
endless arguments. Too much of a waste of time.
Yes. You are wasting our time.
You need to ask yourself why you think that Internet service, to consumers,
is not AT LEAST as critical as telephone service. There's no need to reinvent
what happened back in 1906.
Correct. We have learned from the mistakes of the past.
You idea of “Telecom Neutrality” was ended before the modern Internet was born,
when the AT&T monopoly was broken up in 1982. It was ended when competition was
authorized for long distance telephone service in the ‘80s. It was ended when
Congress told the FCC to auction spectrum for cellular telephony in the ‘80s
and ‘90s. And it was ended with the 1996 Communications Act.
Competition trumps regulation every time Bert.
The vast majority of people seem to understand that Internet service, to
them, is a telecom service, and must be neutral. That's why there's so much
public furor against this crooked Chairman. People get it.
The public understand that the fundamental rule of no blocking is honored by
every ISP. This issue has been litigated and almost everyone understands that
it is not threatened by ISPs or the decision to return to the designation of
broadband as an information service.
YOU continue to claim that the vast majority of U.S. consumers support the
Title II decision and heavy handed regulation of ISPs.
THIS WAS NEVER TRUE.
Perhaps you angst would be better directed at the real violators of Net
neutrality - the monopoly Edge Services who routinely block content they do not
like; the services that have abused our privacy every chance they get.
I'm in opposition to government officials, most likely on the take, who work
only for the best interests of 3-4 companies, John. Even more appalling is
when they lie, to further their goals. That's not what they were hired to do.
If they want to lobby for special interests, they first need to remove
themselves from office.
I’m not trying to speak for John here, but this paragraph illustrates you
complete misunderstanding of the history of FCC regulation. The agency has been
beholden to the special interests it has regulated over the past century...
And it delivered everything their political masters and the lawyers on K-street
wanted until Congress finally said enough and started to deregulate
telecommunications. Sadly, the broadcast oligopoly has not been deregulated
and has now become a potent propaganda machine...
At least the Russians knew that Pravda was not to be trusted; ironically Radio
Free Europe worked, providing hope to enslaved population.
Maybe its time for Radio Free America...
Regards
Craig
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