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16 years ago @ Big Government - FCC to U.S. Court of A... · 0 replies · +2 points

at the same time allowing the FCC to regulate prices is not the answer either....

16 years ago @ Big Government - FCC to U.S. Court of A... · 0 replies · +1 points

I know why it's don and there can be good reasons (90% of email is spam after all and P2P's can suck up huge amounts of bandwidth) but do you see the danger? By controlling the flow those of us with limited choices will be forced to have limited access. And what about unscrupulous companies?

16 years ago @ Big Government - FCC to U.S. Court of A... · 0 replies · 0 points

Like I said I am not an expert on the law but I am expert on the technology currently being used to "shape" traffic. If you allow the ISP's to control the flow of information companies that provide content (like BigGovernment) will finding themselves having to pay ISP's for the traffic they generate when "we" are already are paying for that same traffic. I don't know what the answer is but allowing companies to mess with traffic cannot be allowed.

As to the name calling....grow up....

16 years ago @ Big Government - FCC to U.S. Court of A... · 4 replies · +2 points

As opposed to allowing big business meddle....what's the difference?

How about a law that says simply all internet traffic should be allowed to flow freely without intervention

16 years ago @ Big Government - FCC to U.S. Court of A... · 0 replies · +1 points

Not everyone, most area's are locked into one provider. If you are lucky you have two. Besides Comcast is not the only provider that does this, its call traffic shaping and QoS. Once the other providers know that what Comcast is doing will not get them in trouble they will expand thier own "traffic shaping".

16 years ago @ Big Government - FCC to U.S. Court of A... · 2 replies · +1 points

Good lord... the ignorance on this subject is astounding. I could post reply's all day long

Read this
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/article...

and this
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti...

16 years ago @ Big Government - FCC to U.S. Court of A... · 3 replies · 0 points

So you want to be at the mercy of an ISP? What happens when Comcast doesn't like the BigGovernmnet website and gives it a lower bandwidth? Is that okay?

That is exactly what Comcast is doing and what happens when they decide they want to start charging BigGovernment for a trickle of traffic? Basically Comcast will have website by their balls and sites will live and die by their approval. How you like that idea?

16 years ago @ Big Government - FCC to U.S. Court of A... · 7 replies · +1 points

This has actually been in the works since 2002. This article just demonizes Net Neutrallity without explaining what it means.
In at nutshell it means Internet providers are supposed to grant equal treatment to all traffic traversing their networks. Historically ISP's have done this because the technology to analyze every packet was expensive and caused to much of a lag. In the past couple of years that has changed. ISP's can now control the speeds of websites and the services they offer. You have a website? Want priority on Comcasts network? Well just pay them $20 a month and you will get C level speeds.

16 years ago @ Big Government - FCC to U.S. Court of A... · 3 replies · 0 points

Wow this post is completely missing what the current ISP's are doing unregulated. The court decision basically reads "...FCC does not have the authority to force Internet providers to grant equal treatment to all traffic traversing their networks..."
Currently your ISP controls which service/protocol/website provider gets which amount of bandwidth. You like watching movies from Netflix? Well Comcast could decide to they would rather you watch Blockbuster so Netflix's website will get less bandwidth then Blockbuster.

I am not saying what the FCC wants to do is any better then what Comcast is currently doing (I am no expert and have not read up enough on it) but this article totally misses what the ISP's are doing currently and gives them a complete pass. Not all government regulation is bad and not all companies do the right thing.
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2010/04/06/court-fcc-... http://www.boston.com/business/technology/article... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti...

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