Posted on 11/10/2014 8:13:29 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Is delivery service, like the post office, a utility? Why so many delivery services like FedEx, UPS, etc. that show there is not a monopoly on delivery? The Internet is not a utility.
Sophistry...it *sounds* like thinking.
Your comments on this manner are technically and philosophically...peculiar.
“..because P sounds like T which stands for ‘trouble’.”
Let’s just start with the Internet not being broadcast. That’s just your ‘last mile’...sometimes. It gets sillier from there.
You are misinformed about what is broadband, who owns it (the People) and what Verizon will pay for it. To USE it, not own it and charge whatever the they want.
Look up the auction dollar figures last time the government sold off unused space on the band. Look what they’re trying to force small stations into selling off right now, and how much it’s worth on the open market.
This is all prima facie evidence that the People own it — why willingly give up having a say (regulating) the real estate we own? To make Verizon happy? Or Comcast? Please.
You are going to give up control of what you own, all the while mindlessly repeating FIRST AMENDMENT. It has nothing to do with the First Amendment — it has everything to do with private companies selling back an asset to us that we already own.
We would be foolish to allow CBS to charge us for their broadcast signal when we own it. We are fools to allow Netflix to charge whatever they want with no public oversight on the HIGHWAYS THAT WE OWN.
No, they don’t “own” their networks. They have a license to operate on a particular spectrum.
There is a finite number of atoms in the universe too.
The finite signal room of broadcast does not have any analogy in the practically unlimited signal room of cable. Need more signal room? add more cables. That is not possible with broadcast, where useful transmission frequencies in open air represent a real limit on data capacity.
Get control of the internet, put something like the “equal time” doctrines that used to be on TV on internet service providers relating to content, control internet debates, contents and websites before the 2016 elections.
They would like to regulate all political speech online
Your comments make clear you have no idea what “broadband” means in the context, and how it attaches to what the article is talking about.
Here is a Wikipedia summary: In telecommunications, broadband is wide bandwidth data transmission with an ability to simultaneously transport multiple signals and traffic types. The medium can be coaxial cable, optical fiber, twisted pair, DSL local telephone networks or wireless broadband. In contrast, baseband describes a communication system in which information is transported across a single channel.[1]
What you are discussing is not what this net-neutrality is about. Nor is ‘broadband’ interchangeable with ‘broadcast transmission bands’ or broadcast spectrum , even if they share syllables.
I know exactly what broadband is.
I also know that Comcast squeezed Netflix for millions of dollars of extra fees by slowing down the service of people who wanted to stream movies until Netflix paid up.
No company should be able to charge you more for electricity depending on what you decide you’re going to power with it in your own home. Comcast doesn’t get to arbitrarily charge Netflix users more because “free market.” They don’t own the internet. The People do, just as they own the broadcast airwaves.
The only way to stop Comcast from doing what they did is government regulation. Or they can surrender their license to do business with public assets.
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