Why the Coming Data Flood Won't Drown the Internet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @01:45AM from the really-strong-tubes dept.

High Waters writes "Ars Technica examines predictions of an 'exaflood' of data that some alarmists believe will overwhelm the Internet. A closer look reveals that many of those raising the alarm about an exaflood are generally doing so to make the case against internet neutrality regulation. 'There's a reason that "exaflood" sounds scary. It's supposed to. Though Brett Swanson's Wall Street Journal piece tried to avoid alarmism, it did have an explicitly political point in mind: net neutrality is bad, and it could turn the coming exaflood into a real disaster'."

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Re:Why? Simple! by tlhIngan · 2007-12-18 04:12 · Score: 0, Flamebait

The "exaflood hypothesis" is not based on solid fact. It is a ploy, a PR stunt, as the article intimates, by our friends at the Discovery Institute, who are keen on floods and other prophecies of mass destruction.

What? No mention of their other great theory they put forth? (Yes, the same Discovery Institute of Creationism... err... sorry, I think it's "Intelligent Design")

See? The Internet wasn't Intelligently Designed! It won't stand the exaflood! There's no way mere random evolution would make the Internet withstand the exaflood!

(Whoa... that worked a bit better than I thought it would...)