[GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Fwd: Why Do You Need Net Neutrality?

[Brian Good]

   I think the question is who should we take advice from and what do you 
advocate.

Brian


> To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:30:03 -0700
> From: cls at truffula.sj.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Fwd: Why Do You Need Net Neutrality?
> 
> 
> "Net Neutrality" means something different every week.  It's
> hard to keep up with the advocacy groups that have made it
> their career.
> 
> Sometimes it means no carrier could interfere with any traffic on
> its network, no matter how destructive.  That's the proposal for
> the GP-US platform right now.  If it were public policy, the
> Internet would be overwhelmed.  The Internet routes around damage,
> including censorship, but not if the damage is everywhere.
> 
> Sometimes it means cable TV and phone companies wouldn't be
> allowed to discriminate against a competitor's data.
> That's "common carrier status," like the rule that the phone
> company has to let you call any number you want from your
> land line.  They're not allowed to block those $100/minute
> fraud numbers in the Cayman Islands.  People are smart enough
> to avoid those, for the most part.  Maybe they'll be smart
> enough to avoid cracked web sites that infect their browsers
> with malware, too.
> 
> The whole thing smells fishy to me.  Especially when the first
> place I ever heard about it from was Wes Boyd's "Moveon.org."
> Moveon.org is a spammer.  I got Boyd thrown off his Compuserve
> account for spamming, when he was just getting started.
> Freepress.net sends spam too.  Spamming is network abuse and if
> it were not controlled by the ISPs it would render the
> network unusable in a day.  I don't think we should be taking
> public policy advice from people like that.
> 
> -Cameron
> 
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