Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: POTUS backs net neutrality Date: 13 Nov 2014 11:26:26 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <20141112144629.47927cb5.rsw@therandymon.com> <87tx24l9ry.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <87ioikqiua.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net RcELfyTyS9PwUIBb7rO+pweaOvJnH129yYf2lEfQKEG9mKoD5u Cancel-Lock: sha1:vY4OLiywuR2rbl9VkaX4Qk/jfF4= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-16 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:5622 On 2014-11-12, Anthony Giacalone wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 22:12:13 +0200, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> Anthony Giacalone : [27 lines snipped] >>> State legislation isn't going to solve this one. Net neutrality is one >>> of those all or nothing things which needs to be handled on a federal >>> level. >> >> You have a pretty limited view of the Internet. How do Canada, >> Australia, France and Lithuania factor in the "federal level?" > > Thanks for telling me what I know. I'm so glad people like you exist to > remind me of these things! > > Canada, Australia, France, and Lithuania are different countries. I > doubt that Comcast operates there...but I could be wrong, I suppose. And > not at all set up legally like the United States. That's what we're > discussing here, right? US law? You are aware that Telecommunications standards are defined by the ITU who are an arm of the UN? They are *exactly* the people who should be doing this stuff. -- Today is Boomtime, the 25th day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3180 "I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them." – Jane Austen