[GRLUG] NOT LINUX - FCC to vote on net neutrality later today.

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 02:25:41AM -0500, Bob Kline wrote:
[snip]
> 
> To me, it appears that corporate interests have already won.  There's
> nothing natural about a wire-wireless split.  It should be all one
> Internet, independent of how information moves between points.
> 
> In reality, most information will travel over both wires and  wireless
> - most servers are probably wire.  So the split is specious, and
> likely just the start of things to come.

I agree that distinguishing between wired and wireless is silly (Verizon
Wireless can prioritize traffic but Comcast cannot?  Huh?), but I
believe the basis for the split is whether the ISP is wired or wireless,
not whether the data comes from a wired or wireless source.
Nonetheless, it's a silly distinction.

> Look for Congress to override anything the FCC does anyway - it's
> clearly in the back of the special interests.

You know, my .sig is random (using signify), but boy, does it apply!
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