Saturday, April 22, 2006
Net Neutrality
This is something that you'll probably be hearing about in the upcoming weeks. As the lines between content providers and service providers gets blurrier, the opportunity for hi-jinx increases.
When we hear that in China certain sites are completely blocked, we are able to shrug it off and think of our society as being a little more 'enlightened' that theirs. Don't get too smug, right now there are folks trying to keep you from going (in the virtual sense) anywhere you want, because they are the guys building the toll-roads, and they only make a nickel when you go where they want you to go.
Unless you are a shareholder in any of these companies (you probably aren't) then there is no advantage to you as a consumer in allowing this kind of thing to happen.
Don't let the man stick it to you.
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Paranoia will destroy ya.
Anyway, you really think sending a letter to a congressman about something they don't care about in the first place will do anything?
I have bad news - it won't help. The day politicans care about what their constituents think (outside of an election year) is the day I might think about voting for people again.
Please consider the following:
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
-Martin Niemöller
Can you hear that? It's what it sounds like when you wait for someone to say something.
I mean, someone'll say something...
Any minute now...
They have to right?
SHORT ANSWER: You have no control over whether or not they care. But if you care and you don't say anything... who'd know
Something about falling on deaf ears?
Yeah that's right - the eventual fate of every opinion of the general public when it gets presented to those who "represent" them.
I truly hope that people don't think that signing the gas price petition outside of Target is going to do something either. I'd lvoe to think what the people think matters to those who legislate, but it doesn't, it hasn't and it won't for a long time until the entire system is broken down and rebuilt.
Until then, I haveto worry about how I cazn get me and mine ahead of the game. Selfish though it may be, it's survival nonetheless.
Besides you're asking government to step in and mandate what private business does?
Yikes.... big yikes.
As seen on a chinese website.
BEIJING, April 28 (Xinhuanet) -- A U.S. Democratic bid to enshrine extensive "net neutrality" regulations into the law books failed Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives.
A U.S. House committee approved a bill Wednesday, under which Internet carriers would have a free hand to charge the likes of Google Inc., Yahoo Inc extra for faster delivery of services to consumers, bringing a two-tier Internet one step closer to reality.
The Web companies had hoped to amend Wednesday's legislation, thereby enshrining the status quo of "network neutrality," the catchphrase that has come to represent a system in which all Internet traffic is treated equally.
Yeah, China reported this. China that blocks net traffic, censors searches, forces Google and Yahoo to reveal the contents of e-mail being sent by 'dissidents' so that they could go and deatin said dissidents for a while.
Couldn't happen here though. Someone would stop them.
Someone else.
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