So Now it is Bandwidth Rationing for the Good of the Bankers?
Has anyone thought that maybe there are a lot of Businesses that are not Brick and Mortar that depend upon online sales.
So, You’ve read “Unintended Consequences” and “Enemies Foreign and Domestic”?
Helping businesses isn’t part of the master plan.
Well, the rationale they’re using is for the entirety of the world’s financial markets, so basically anything produced.
But it’s a straw man on top of a straw man. All that goes on on separate networks. I’m a US treasury trader, and we have a completely separate fiber connection to the exchange.
So even if you could flood the internet, it wouldn’t affect the exchanges. I might not be able to log on to my Ameritrade (Scottrade, etc) account from my home internet connection to sell Google or whatever, but the vast majority of trading doesn’t touch the internet.
And of course, the image of this incredibly fragile and crowded internet is a joke. Iphones might lag if everyone jumped on the 3G cell networks at once, but the communications companies laid so much fiber from the 90s up until now that we’re not going to run out of capacity because people are home sick.
Who has their fingers in that pie?
A different branch of the administration. Hmmmm.
If bandwidth is reserved for banks, what is the chance of getting to your online trading account?