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Gary McGath
· 1 year ago
Harold (whom I've known for years and think highly of) does seem uncharacteristically obsessed in this Comcast matter.
Jamalystic
· 1 year ago
The FCC got it all wrong in this comcast case and i have to agree with your assessment that the whole 'net neutrality cause' has been severely jeopardized!! Mat be we can look back in hindsight and say that was the incident that marks the end of 'net neutrality': The Net Neutrality Fearmongers Are At It Again(http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=556&doc_id=160628&F_src=flftwo)
orcmid
· 1 year ago
I don't get it.
Universities are not operating a service to the public, any more than internal corporate internets are. Both are in a position to manage network activity as part of assuring their institutional purpose (however different the university one is from the corporate one).
Making an equivalence with regard to FCC regulatory authority seems very weird to me.
And, ahem, recent legislation is going to require universities to take pro-active measures against piracy over their networks in order to obtain Federal funds. Way different regulatory regime there, wot?
George Ou
· 1 year ago
Universities are open to the public for those who qualify to gain admission. Once those citizens of the public gain admission, they pay "rent" for their tuition their housing, and all other infrastructure needs. The University is acting as an Internet Service Provider to its students.
George Ou
· 1 year ago
There's also a huge difference between corporations and Universities. The corporations pays their employees to use the Internet as a research tool. The students pay their University for room, board, utilities, Internet.
But the net result of neut regs is metered pricing, and the ISPs have to love that. Except the neuts know the ISPs like it, so they don't really want neut regs after all.
So black is white and white is black.
AlexHarris
· 1 year ago
Jim,
It may be interesting to point out that on the very same day that the FCC was castigating Comcast for its non-neutrality, Congress was mandating that universities be non-neutral: http://www.openmarket.org/2008/08/01/fcc-slaps-...
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Universities are not operating a service to the public, any more than internal corporate internets are. Both are in a position to manage network activity as part of assuring their institutional purpose (however different the university one is from the corporate one).
Making an equivalence with regard to FCC regulatory authority seems very weird to me.
And, ahem, recent legislation is going to require universities to take pro-active measures against piracy over their networks in order to obtain Federal funds. Way different regulatory regime there, wot?
But the net result of neut regs is metered pricing, and the ISPs have to love that. Except the neuts know the ISPs like it, so they don't really want neut regs after all.
So black is white and white is black.
It may be interesting to point out that on the very same day that the FCC was castigating Comcast for its non-neutrality, Congress was mandating that universities be non-neutral:
http://www.openmarket.org/2008/08/01/fcc-slaps-...