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5 months ago
in Metered Internet Is OK But Won’t Work on How To Split An Atom
The only "problem" I think the author got right was the bit about competition. Service providers have an economic incentive to not restrict, curb, or discriminate traffic flowing across their networks. But they have every right to do whatever they want with their property. It is, after all, their property.
Re: getaclue . . . Well, how else to say it except, "Get a clue." Federal policy, specifically the Telecommunications Act of 1996 promotes and encourages overuse, overconsumption, and wasteful use of a scarce resource--network bandwidth.
We have a standard tragedy of the commons on the major carriers' networks because they're forced (on pain of legal penalty or worse for non-compliance) to allow rivals access to their wire-line networks. It seems to me that price discrimination should have been used from the very beginning (like toll roads). Only reason it hasn't been like that seems to be solely due to federal, state, and local legislation restricting competition, encouraging monopoly/cartelization, and basically holding consumers hostage to privileged carriers.
Not only are such policies counter-productive, but they are terribly immoral. You and I have no "right" to use other peoples' property. As I see it, we wouldn't have such a sticky problem if people were free to enter the market without having to get "licensed" by the FCC or bargain/bribe/beg with state and local governments to provide a wanted service to consumers. If you didn't like the service of your single regional provider, you'd then be free to quit them and start your own provider.
I don't see what everyone's so worried about. To the extent this is a problem, government created it, and now everyone's calling for a government band-aid to fix the mess. And to the extent that communications networks are private property, you have no "right" to access them. And no, it doesn't matter that you REALLY REALLY REALLY want to use the internet.
Re: getaclue . . . Well, how else to say it except, "Get a clue." Federal policy, specifically the Telecommunications Act of 1996 promotes and encourages overuse, overconsumption, and wasteful use of a scarce resource--network bandwidth.
We have a standard tragedy of the commons on the major carriers' networks because they're forced (on pain of legal penalty or worse for non-compliance) to allow rivals access to their wire-line networks. It seems to me that price discrimination should have been used from the very beginning (like toll roads). Only reason it hasn't been like that seems to be solely due to federal, state, and local legislation restricting competition, encouraging monopoly/cartelization, and basically holding consumers hostage to privileged carriers.
Not only are such policies counter-productive, but they are terribly immoral. You and I have no "right" to use other peoples' property. As I see it, we wouldn't have such a sticky problem if people were free to enter the market without having to get "licensed" by the FCC or bargain/bribe/beg with state and local governments to provide a wanted service to consumers. If you didn't like the service of your single regional provider, you'd then be free to quit them and start your own provider.
I don't see what everyone's so worried about. To the extent this is a problem, government created it, and now everyone's calling for a government band-aid to fix the mess. And to the extent that communications networks are private property, you have no "right" to access them. And no, it doesn't matter that you REALLY REALLY REALLY want to use the internet.
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Brianary
"Their network"? Terrible excuse. So the only way I have a right to freely participate in modern society is to buy every node on the Internet?