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UK ISPs To Make Voluntary Net-Neutrality Commitment
Mark.JUK writes "A UK government advisory body, the Broadband Stakeholders Group, has confirmed that most of the major fixed line internet providers in the country will next week sign-up to a new Voluntary Code of Practice on Traffic Management Transparency. Recently everybody from the European Commission to the UK government has called upon ISPs to be more 'transparent' with their traffic management policies, which until now have been too vague and often fail to inform customers about any background restrictions that might be being imposed upon their services. The new code is likely to surface as a result of last year's Net Neutrality consultation — the principal of treating all internet traffic as equal — by the country's communications regulator. Ofcom is not expected to enforce any tough new rules, largely due to a lack of evidence for market harm, but will recommend greater transparency from ISPs. However, to most providers, transparency usually means yet more unreadable small print."
Self regulation is just toothless regulation, basically letting a business say, 'ya.. thats kind of a cool idea.. and if it's convenient i might consider it'
It has worked very well with Union Carbide, Goldman Sachs, BP, and many more.
..... it works because organizations founded purely on the principle of profit, act against their potential profit, and think about the public first. they have high moral and ethical standards. and if they fail, they are accountable. because, corporations arent 'people', and the perpetrators of the failure can be punished. They never can just ditch the haywire corporation, and just start a new one with the immense profits - no, our system prevents that - you, sir, are accountable for all of your actions. you should remember that.
really. it works
or, maybe these are only true in an alternate reality, and in the world we lived in, opposite of all of the above holds true.
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