Quote from: jaysabi on December 24, 2014, 06:43:59 PM

Quote from: contagion on December 24, 2014, 11:55:37 AM

Quote from: jaysabi on December 23, 2014, 08:35:01 PM

Quote from: contagion on December 22, 2014, 06:44:03 PM

Quote from: jaysabi on December 22, 2014, 02:12:13 PM

Net neutrality makes these abuses illegal.

In essence, you mean you believe Obama will protect you from rising costs, when in fact he has been doing exactly the opposite. More evidence.

No, in essence, I mean exactly what I said. Net neutrality will prohibit ISP-sponsored censorship by prohibiting extortion against those who can afford to pay.

And when net neutrality regulation ends up with ISPs merged into mega-telcoms and the mega-telcoms sleeping in bed with the government, then you will ask for more regulation to regulate to the regulators or some other endless set of excuses, always failing to recognize that the generative essence of the problem is THE IRON LAW of Political Economics[1].

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and never realizing you will get the same result every time.

Thus you are insane.

[1] In collectivized action the self interest incentives are misaligned with the global optimization.

All of your fear mongering is countered by the fact that net neutrality is the system we've had all along. But I bet you're right, keeping the system that's been in place since the beginning of the internet is the boogeyman. Roll Eyes

Is your small brain incapable of the basic logic of recognizing that you've equated two orthogonal categories?

There has been no system of net neutrality in place. The internet has been a free market and grew to serve a billion people with private corporation competition and no regulation of the government.

To the extent that the corporate providers of the internet infrastructure have provided net neutrality up to now, this was due to free market realities and incentives that made it so, not by any form of government interference in the free market.

You are advocating Obama's call to regulate the internet as a public utility. What we know from the history of the world and even the recent history of Obama (e.g. using the carbon tax to shut down utility power plants of political enemies and rewarding new licenses to his political supporters), is that regulation is always corrupted.

So not only have you conflated two orthogonal categories in that pea brain of yours, but you are also delusional about the fact that regulation has always been corrupted and there is not a single example in the history of man where it was not. You try to present an example, and we can slaughter your example with numerous citations of corruption in your example.

Offer your crying and whining temper tantrums to your corrupt, enslaving Big Brother about your ignorance. He will surely provide the slavery you seek.

P.S. you highly underestimate the hackers and technologists (such as myself, who helped invent the internet) who will never allow the monopolists (nor the government) to take over. We are actively developing technological paradigm shifts to render impotent any of their attempts to monopolize. This is why the internet is net neutral and will remain so. Whereas, if the users of the internet call for the government to take over the internet, then the people will be fighting against us and the free internet (and then the global economy will bifurcate and the Knowledge Age will win and the Big Brother and his minions will fall into the economic collapse abyss as they enslave themselves along with the monopolists).

It is really annoying when a dumbshit, young snot such as yourself tries to tell the older people who invented the internet and are doing the programming and design work to keep it freedom directed. Do you not realize how stupid you are?