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

[Ben DeMott]

John you're probably on the "red list" because of your signature.  ;)

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:22 AM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org>wrote:

> 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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