Golgot
07-06-06, 09:06 PM
So, it seems that the telecommunications companies are closer (http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2006/tc20060705_674387.htm) to securing the legal right to create a 'two-speed internet' (http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/mg19025576.500-telecoms-giants-threaten-freedom-and-equality-on-net.html) - in which websites are charged extra for receiving a priority service. (And troublesome/non-favoured sites could potentially be punted into the long grass, it seems)
And yet the 'telcos' apparently have all the capacity needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fibre) to maintain the 'democratic infrastructure' of the web, at no real cost to themselves.
Ah well, there's always a bright side. If their 'representatives' are gonna argue their case like this (http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/02/sen_stevens_hilariou.html)... :D
I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?
Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially...
They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.
It's a series of tubes.
And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
I don't understand all the issues by any means, but it seems to me that 'net neutrality' is a beneficial thing - and that the 'telcos' are just on the take. And could well unbalance some of the net's more creative and productive equilibriums along the way.
And yet the 'telcos' apparently have all the capacity needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fibre) to maintain the 'democratic infrastructure' of the web, at no real cost to themselves.
Ah well, there's always a bright side. If their 'representatives' are gonna argue their case like this (http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/02/sen_stevens_hilariou.html)... :D
I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?
Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially...
They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.
It's a series of tubes.
And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
I don't understand all the issues by any means, but it seems to me that 'net neutrality' is a beneficial thing - and that the 'telcos' are just on the take. And could well unbalance some of the net's more creative and productive equilibriums along the way.