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How ISPs May Quietly Kill VoIP
ravenII writes "PBS's i'Cringley's informative piece gives an eye-opening look at the anticompetitive behavior of some ISPs who are showing up late to the VoIP game. This is not something that could be easily mandated, and the beauty of this approach is that they're not explicitly doing anything to the 3rd party service applications. They're just identifying and tagging their own services, which is within their rights."
Stop submitting his crap already.
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And just how does this disprove capitalism? Are you saying that since some (not all) of the ISPs are tagging in order to give better throughput to their own products, that that is anti-capitalistic? How? The ISP owns their network. It is their propoerty. They can do with it what they like. If you don't like it, move to a different ISP. Capitalism is controlled by the consumer, you moron. "Vote" with your money and the ISPs will come around. Capitalism is the epitomy of democracy. Government intervention will only make ISP services more expensive, buraucratic, less efficient, and useless to the consumer. You are obviously a socialist who prefers state intervention so that everyone can get "equal" service - equal, but crappy.
I don't know what you're smoking, but please take your socialistic views back to France, Germany, Sweden, or Denmark.
Wait... before you do... let's compare capitalism (America) and socialism (most of Europe).
Who invented the phone, the light bulb, the computer, the transistor, television, pacemakers, and so many, many, many other things I can't begin to think of them all.
What did Europe invent in the past 100 years? I'm thinking... and I can't come up with anything. Wait. Velcro. Wasn't velcro French? But the French government didn't have anything to do with it. Hmmm. Still thinking. Hmmm. Airplane? Nope. That was an American invention too. I guess a couple of Germans invented the jet engine. Americans invented RADAR.
I'll take capitalism any day of the week. How many people like having politicians choose anything about your life? I can't beleive that people actually trust politicians for anything. Most politicians aren't smart enough to do anything else... so they run for political office. And you want politicians to decide what happens with technical products? Personally, I'd rather have a choice... several competing products, I pick based on features and price.
You really need to go back to school and pay attention. Communism doesn't work. We saw that. Socialism doesn't work. Look at Canada's healthcare. Look at Germany's unemployment and "big government" social programs! It doesn't work. They're going to have to change. More of the world is gravitating to capitalism than they are to socialism. Look at China. They've been embracing free enterprise for quite some time. Too bad that the free enterprisers are handpicked by the chairman, but that's not our fault. If the people would revolt, they'd be able to share the wealth rather than live in poverty. Who Let's look at the track record for innovation. Socialism... as you would advocate... vs capitalism as it stands in the US.
I have a choice between several broadband ISPs. If one of them starts sabotaging my piggyback VoIP service, I'm going to drop them like a hot potato and go somewhere else. Tell me how capitalism failed me?