Quote from: RodeoX on December 16, 2014, 08:27:30 PM

Quote from: contagion on December 16, 2014, 03:12:48 AM

RodeoX and jaysabi, I can not fathom how you can write so astutely in this thread, and yet have favored Obama's pleas to regulate net neutrality. ...

I'm not sure what I said that leads you to believe that I do not support net neutrality. I think it is central to the future of the internet and I am dead against messing with the open and neutral nature of the internet. Obama recently fought regulation of the internet. Super large ISPs and cable companies are trying to fundamentally change the internet. They want to set up a "non-neutral" system that allows ISPs to block any content they want or change the bandwidth you pull when viewing a competitors content.

You would not recognize this internet unless you live in China or North Korea. When you do an image search for "Tienanmen square" , you will see endless pictures of that guy who stood in front of the tank. If you searched in China you would find that image is unknown and would not show up. Why because there is no net neutrality in China. That is what the future will be like for us without neutrality. You will only see what your ISP has decided you should see. If they don't want you using bitcoin, then they will have the power to stop you.

I say we made the internet and it's content, not the ISPs. We should be able to view what we want.

We all want a free internet. Maybe if that Etherium project sees the light of day (no idea how far they are into) it will be impossible to censure anything in the future.

But the chinese example is not quite a perfect analogy. Far from it. It may be that what 0bama is pushing for, by making ISPs becoming utilities like ConED and others, perversely ends up with a totalitarian chinese syndrome. The dude stopping the tanks is 'no more', not because there is a lack of net neutrality but because of totalitarian government with close to 1 million of civil servants paid to B.O.L.O. for any illegal activities...

We do not need regulations in 2015 that were concocted in a 1920's era. We can do better than this than giving up more to a bigger and bigger government.

"But Wilikon! What about Verizon and AT&T now!" I can hear you say.

Well that is why a true organic market will find a way to reinvent itself..

AT&T (American Telephone & Telegraph) founded in 1885....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X84muuaySVQ

I like the old school operator's look way better... But that's just me Wink

Can you imaging living in a world were the internet had been regulated, like the ATTTT&F (American Telephone, Telegraph, Telex, Teletype, & Fax) be?