DISQUS

Mike Wendy · 1 year ago

Adam hits it, especially with his last paragpah. According to Lessig et al, "innovation at the edges" is all that really matters.

Lessig fails to admit that much of that edgy innovation couldn't have occured without bedrock innovation in the first instance. It informs the entire dynamic of the ICT industry - co-existence; bedrock working with edgy - this tension, of which "proprietary" innovation represents no small part, must be allowed to flourish.

Sadly, at least from the rhetoric (and there's been much)NN believers - as well as others associated with that unruly group - would prefer that things "proprietary" and its underlying incetive system simply disappear.
Ryan Radia · 1 year ago

Great post. If the cost of providing Internet for everyone outweighed the benefits, it would emerge on its own. Unfortunately, the FCC is trying to encumber the 2.1Ghz band to spur the creation of a network that's clearly an inefficient use of the airwaves. Of course the NN types consistently ignore the fact that entrenching the Internet in its current incarnation means stagnation at the core of networks. Yet the drive for muni-broadband boondoggles persists unabated.