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Robert McMillen: What Everyone Gets Wrong In the Debate Over Net Neutrality
ygslash writes "Robert McMillen of Wired claims that we have gotten Net Neutrality all wrong. While we are all busy arguing about whether there should be regulations preventing large content providers from getting preferential bandwidth, McMillen says that not only have the large content providers already had preferential bandwidth for ten years, but that by now this has become an inherent part of the structure of the Internet and in practice cannot be changed. Instead, he says, the Net Neutrality discussion should be about ensuring a free and open competitive market for bandwidth, so that anyone who wants bandwidth can purchase it at a fair price.
If your electric company was also a distributor for Anheuser Busch would you object if they charged more for electricity and let the voltage wander when your refrigerator was full of Stone smoked porter instead of Michelob?
Someone with a fridge full of Michelob is suffering enough already. I’d support legislation to cut ‘em a break.
Maybe if you send the data on plastic disks through the mail....
"In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women..." -H. Simpson
I also like to accuse my opponents of being stupid when I can't counter their arguments. A straw man argument wrapped up in an ad hominem!
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