new thread: QoS, latency, bandwidth and the FCC/net neutrality debate

[Steve Litt]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 22:45:34 -0700
"Herminio Hernandez Jr. " <herminio.hernandezjr at gmail.com> wrote:

> So if Net Neutrality is failing now why keep it?

Because it's just a tiny bit of net neutrality. True net neutrality
would be to regulate the broadband vendors as utilities, which is
exactly what they are.

I think this guy has a pretty good rebuttal to all your arguments:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/technology/internet-dying-repeal-net-neutrality.html

I quote:

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Because net neutrality shelters start-ups — which can’t easily pay for
fast-line access — from internet giants that can pay, the rules are
just about the last bulwark against the complete corporate takeover of
much of online life. When the rules go, the internet will still work,
but it will look like and feel like something else altogether — a
network in which business development deals, rather than innovation,
determine what you experience, a network that feels much more like
cable TV than the technological Wild West that gave you Napster and
Netflix.
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SteveT

Steve Litt 
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