Path: csiph.com!news.fcku.it!peer02.fr7!futter-mich.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fx26.fr7.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.misc From: RS Wood Subject: Re: Net neutrality is dead References: <20171121172949.029d3854.rsw@therandymon.com> <20171214144925.0009894c.rsw@therandymon.com> <20171216161959@news.eternal-september.org> Reply-To: randy@therandymon.com User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (Linux) Message-ID: <2odjge-l9h.ln1@raspberry.therandymon.com> Lines: 14 X-Complaints-To: abuse@blocknews.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 00:30:04 UTC Organization: blocknews - www.blocknews.net Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 00:12:18 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 1473 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1579522189 Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:15169 On 2017-12-17, Huge wrote: > Imagine that your telephone provider won't allow you to make calls to people > other than its own customers. That's the kind of thing that will happen. They can call it ... Compuserve. Or AOL, either of which refuses to communicate with the other in the year 1993. I've always thought we'll sooner or later revisit the age of BBSes. But it now occurs to me it won't be the sort of revolutionary act I'd thought, but rather because competing systems wall each other off (Google refuses to let Amazon devices broadcast Youtube; Amazon refuses to sell Chrome streaming devices), effectively forcing us into that type of ecosystem by design. Hope I get lumped in with the kermudgeons, because that's where I'll fit in.