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Verizon CEO Says "We Will Hunt Heavy Users Down"
Zerocool3001 writes "In an interview with WSJ editor Alan Murray,Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg talks about how the FCC's broadband access studies are wrong (and the US is definitely 'number one, not even close'), how he had someone else stand in line for him Saturday to pick up his iPad, and how Verizon will soon hunt down, throttle and/or charge high-bandwidth users on its network."
Verizon will soon hunt down
"The Most Dangerous Game hunt down" or the boring old e-mail notification? Because if it's the former, I might start seeding large sets of prime numbers labeled as "Natalie Portman sex tape" through my noisy neighbor's unsecured wifi network connected to his Verizon FIOS.
My work here is dung.
Queue the theme from Jaws: "We're going to need a bigger Internet"
This CEO is smarter and harder working than you as evidenced by the fact that he makes more money than you. You think you know better than your betters? If there was anything wrong with what he said, the magic of the Free Market would have prevented him from saying it! If you want the nannystate to do everything for you, move to a communist country like Canada or Europe with all the other collectivist socialists!!!!!!11!1!1oneone [/conservative]
This is Verizon we're dealing with, remember...
User 1: I'm Spartacus!
*BLAM*
User 2: I'm... I'm Spartacus!
*BLAM*
User 3: Um... I'm Spartacus?
*BLAM*
(User 4 just shakes nervously)
*BLAM*
*BLAM*
Soldier 1: That last one was just for fun! No more backtalk!
Soldier 2: Look at that! We're running out of users! They must be doing something illegal! Get our senator on the line!
Demanding constant attention will only lead to attention.
Queue the theme from Jaws:
Cue. It's cue. As in "This is my cue to pipe in the theme for Jaws". Granted, queue can make sense in a CS-type queuing up the theme, but....
Ah, fuck it. Go mangle the English language. I'll be curled up in bed, sucking on my language-nazi thumb.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, sue.
This thread has peaked my interest.
100 Mbit is the lowest I could get even if I tried here in Sweden
Didn't you hear the CEO of Verizon? He says we're number one! That's us in the US, not some Vikings of the north. Stop clouding the debate with your "facts."
You know, it feels like time to deregulate again. It hasn't worked for the last decade and a half, but I'm sure it will work from now on. Too bad there are no countries on the Internet except the US or we'd be able to compare broadband policies and consider something different.