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Re: POTUS backs net neutrality

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Anthony Giacalone <anthonyg@invalid.sdf.nospam.org>:

> On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:26:57 +0200, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
>
>> Here's my proposal to consider. Get FCC out of the way and allow the
>> states to legislate and administer the net freely. Some states will
>> hand the net to the phone companies, some will set net neutrality
>> rules, others will build their own infrastructure. After a few years,
>> we'll get to see whose model is best for who, and those who chose
>> badly will get to change their ways.
>
> This is a bad idea. What's to prevent an ISP like Comcast to simply
> route all their traffic through a "business friendly" state so that
> they can throttle/block/do whatever to anyone they want regardless of
> the customer's location?

I don't quite understand. If, say, Montana enacted a net neutrality law,
how could Comcast escape that in Montana? If Comcast didn't want to do
business in Montana, others would take its business there.

> 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?"

Or should we let the UN administer the Internet? Otherwise, what would
prevent Comcast from routing its traffic around the United States
altogether?


Marko

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POTUS backs net neutrality Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-11-10 23:31 +0000
  Re: POTUS backs net neutrality RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-11-11 08:05 +0000
    Re: POTUS backs net neutrality Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-11-11 09:10 +0000
      Re: POTUS backs net neutrality Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-11-11 14:08 +0000
        Re: POTUS backs net neutrality Anthony Giacalone <anthonyg@invalid.sdf.nospam.org> - 2014-11-11 19:20 +0000
          Re: POTUS backs net neutrality RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-11-12 14:46 +0000
            Re: POTUS backs net neutrality Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-11-12 17:26 +0200
              Re: POTUS backs net neutrality Anthony Giacalone <anthonyg@invalid.sdf.nospam.org> - 2014-11-12 19:07 +0000
                Re: POTUS backs net neutrality Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-11-12 22:12 +0200
                Re: POTUS backs net neutrality Anthony Giacalone <anthonyg@invalid.sdf.nospam.org> - 2014-11-12 21:09 +0000
                Re: POTUS backs net neutrality Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-11-13 00:27 +0200
                Re: POTUS backs net neutrality Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-11-13 11:26 +0000
                Re: POTUS backs net neutrality Anthony Giacalone <anthonyg@invalid.sdf.nospam.org> - 2014-11-13 14:44 +0000
                Re: POTUS backs net neutrality Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-11-13 17:02 +0200
                Re: POTUS backs net neutrality RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-11-14 16:18 +0000
    Re: POTUS backs net neutrality Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-11-13 16:21 -0800

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