How to Save the Net: Keep It Open

[longknife]

A very important read for all who understand the importance of a free internet. The article is @ How to Save the Net: Keep It Open | Magazine | WIRED


And then, a recommendation for this - A CDC for Cybercrime @ How to Save the Net: A CDC for Cybercrime | Magazine | WIRED

 

[Moonglow]

Something needs to be done about cyber crime....especially by international hackers...

 

[Uncensored2008]

A very important read for all who understand the importance of a free internet. The article is @ How to Save the Net: Keep It Open | Magazine | WIRED


And then, a recommendation for this - A CDC for Cybercrime @ How to Save the Net: A CDC for Cybercrime | Magazine | WIRED

So you think the way to "save" the net, which currently works astoundingly well, is to take it out of the hands of private industry and place it in the hands of bureaucrats and apparatchiks..


You Communists are just fucking brilliant.

 

[longknife]

So you think the way to "save" the net, which currently works astoundingly well, is to take it out of the hands of private industry and place it in the hands of bureaucrats and apparatchiks..


You Communists are just fucking brilliant.

No way! The _last_ thing I want to see is politicians and bureaucrats getting their hands on it. The UN and other countries are trying their best to control it and, with all my heart, I pray is stays in the hands of individuals.

 

[Uncensored2008]

No way! The _last_ thing I want to see is politicians and bureaucrats getting their hands on it. The UN and other countries are trying their best to control it and, with all my heart, I pray is stays in the hands of individuals.

But that is EXACTLY what the Wired editorial is advocating, putting the net in the hands of the FCC or similar bureaucracy.

 

[longknife]

But that is EXACTLY what the Wired editorial is advocating, putting the net in the hands of the FCC or similar bureaucracy.

That's what I get for only reading the headline and first paragraph.

 

[mamooth]

So you'd rather have AT&T, Comcast and Verizon running the internet?

Compared to the telecomms, government is a model of efficiency, openness, fairness and low prices. That would be why some developing nations have faster and cheaper internet access than the USA, because the evil gubmint treats it like infrastructure and routes it everywhere. Amazing how cheap it is when the price fixing oligopoly isn't in charge.

 

[Uncensored2008]

So you'd rather have AT&T, Comcast and Verizon running the internet?

Than the FCC? Hell yes.

BUT they don't run the net. Do you know what an RFC is? No, of course you don't. Do you know who the IEEE is? Didn't think so.

Verizon et al, own a major portion of the backbone switching, they do not set standards or "run" the internet. They run their own switches. Yes, I know that there are those whining that "NO FAIR - AT&T wants to give their paying customers priority over Pirate Bay users trying to rip off the latest movies - BOOO HOOOO."

Compared to the telecomms, government is a model of efficiency, openness, fairness and low prices. That would be why some developing nations have faster and cheaper internet access than the USA, because the evil gubmint treats it like infrastructure and routes it everywhere. Amazing how cheap it is when the price fixing oligopoly isn't in charge.

You support totalitarianism, so you putting forth this nonsense is of little surprise.

Your statement is no different than if you came in here and whined "do you want McDonalds, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut running the food industry?"

Further, you communists have a lot of nerve spewing about lower costs - remember when government ran the telecoms? What was it, $6 a minute to call another state? When the government runs things, prices don't go down. The cost of telephone usage is less than 1/1000 than when the government ran the industry. What you push for the internet will simply stop the masses from any access at all.