Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Larry Sheldon Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Net neutrality is dead Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2017 19:25:58 -0600 Organization: Yeah, right. Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <20171121172949.029d3854.rsw@therandymon.com> <20171214144925.0009894c.rsw@therandymon.com> <20171216161959@news.eternal-september.org> <2odjge-l9h.ln1@raspberry.therandymon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net hh2fvyBy2HhDvxU4DRKwZgV1DhIke+katkOZlCeB+wEPozPPWf Cancel-Lock: sha1:Kq86arzQAdM90dwMiLY6g91IzOE= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 In-Reply-To: <2odjge-l9h.ln1@raspberry.therandymon.com> Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:15170 On 12/17/2017 18:12, RS Wood wrote: > 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 curmudgeons, because that's where I'll fit in. I'll stay, as always, with the lowercase "r" republicans. http://www.bookwormroom.com/2017/12/15/bookworm-beat-121517-net-neutrality/ -- quis custodiet ipsos custodes? -- Juvenal