DISQUS

DISQUS Hello! The Technology Liberation Front is using DISQUS, a powerful comment system, to manage its comments. Learn more.

Community Page

The Technology Liberation Front

The Technology Liberation Front is the tech policy blog dedicated to keeping politicians' hands off the 'net and everything else related to technology.
Jump to original thread »
Author

The Economist Speaks Out Against Regulation

Started by TLF · 10 months ago

7 comments

  • MikeT

    3 years ago

    The problem that I have with it is that they are twisting QoS into a weapon against the services that their users may legitimately want. Since my ISP is supposed to be primarily concerned with providing me the connection, who are they to throttle a VoIP service that I receive over the connection that I leased? Are they just glorified web and email providers these days? I agree with their efforts to throttle our outright eliminate certain protocols like Gnutella or eDonkey because they are almost always used for destructive and illegal purposes, but what business do they have throttling and denying access to legitimate services? Yes, the neutrality mandate that is being proposed is overly broad, but the problem is that if there is nothing in place, the ISPs will be allowed to turn an "Internet" service into a web service with some email thrown in when in fact the Internet is nothing more than TCP/IP and UDP.
  • naiserie

    3 years ago

    meh, the more I read re: network neutrality, the less of a big deal the whole affair becomes.

    MikeT: I suppose you will be appointed to determine the "legitimate services"?
  • MikeT

    3 years ago

    How about any service whose primary purpose/usage is not illegal? BitTorrent was created for the distribution of large files like ISO images of Linux. Its purpose was for that sort of thing, whereas Gnutella was created as a way of sharing files a la Napster. In other words it might require a sensible judge and jury, rather than a set in stone legal explanation that has a one-size-fits-all judgement.
  • BudgetMan

    3 years ago

    Nobody is twisting anything from what I can see. This proposed regulation is solving a problem that doesn't even exist, which is the only sure-fire way to disaster I am aware of. Who here would trust ANY politician to solve a problem that doesn't exist with technology they don't understand? OMG this could get horrific before it's all said and done!
  • BudgetMan

    3 years ago

    Nobody is twisting anything from what I can see. This proposed regulation is solving a problem that doesn't even exist, which is the only sure-fire way to disaster I am aware of. Who here would trust ANY politician to solve a problem that doesn't exist with technology they don't understand? OMG this could get horrific before it's all said and done!
  • shorturl

    2 years ago

    c8ba816e29b0 Nice site shorturl shorturl
  • tramadol

    2 years ago

    81e31de21f46 My homepage tramadol tramadol

Add New Comment

Comments are closed for this post.
Returning? Login