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Apple Calls For FCC To Keep 'Strong, Enforceable' Net Neutrality Protections (appleinsider.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Apple Insider: Apple has written to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in support for the concept of net neutrality, with its four-page commentary arguing for the government agency to "retain strong, enforceable open internet protections" instead of rolling back the rules forbidding "fast lane" internet connections. "An open internet ensures that hundreds of millions of consumers get the experience they want, over the broadband connections they choose, to use the devices they love, which have become an integral part of their lives," starts the comment signed by Cynthia Hogan, Apple's Vice President of Public Policy for the Americas. Citing a "deep respect" for its customers' privacy, security, and control over personal information, Apple believes this extends to their internet connection choices as well. "What consumers do with those tools is up to them -- not Apple, and not broadband providers," the statement claims, before urging the FCC to keep advancing the key principles of net neutrality. Based on a belief of consumer choice with regards to connectivity, Apple insists broadband providers should not "block, throttle, or otherwise discriminate against lawful websites and services," and not create "paid fast lanes on the internet." Lifting current FCC bans on these restrictions could allow broadband providers to favor one service over another's, "fundamentally altering the internet as we know it today -- to the detriment of consumers, competition, and innovation." Allowing such fast lanes could result in an internet with heavily distorted competition, caused through online providers being forced to make deals or risk losing customers from providing a hampered service. Apple suggests the practice could "create artificial barriers to entry for new online services, making it harder for tomorrow's innovations to attract investment and succeed," effectively turning broadband providers into a king-maker based on its priorities.
Fast lanes are network connections that prioritize traffic from one network over traffic from another, causing it to get to customers faster, and/or causing the traffic not preferred by it to be degraded to the point of unusability.
You haven;t recognised that Apple users have chosen Apple devices. And whenever they are polled, they are pretty happy about it.
Why are YOU trying to interfere with their choices?
I'm glad to see Apple taking this stand, but my impression is that Pai and his sugar daddies are determined to dismantle net neutrality come hell or high water. They made up their mind and they don't give a fuck what *anyone* else wants or says, including US consumers.
All of these protests matter shit because all that matters is him losing his position, and legislators are too willing to turn a blind eye to the molestation because they benefit as well.
Pai has basically convinced himself that he's somehow taking a moral high ground by not giving into pressure. He's rationalized his corruption by wrapping himself in a banner of self-righteousness.
If there's anything worse than being a financially corrupt whore, it's externalizing blame for that and rationalizing your behavior. Pai is a fawning psychopath who cares for nothing other than himself and his masters. He's a spineless fuckdoll for giant communication corporations, and is willing to bend over because of the kickbacks he gives. He cares nothing about anything other than pushing through ISP's wet dreams.
Eye on the prize Pai, you keep your eye on the prize. History will give you what you deserve.
It's politics for sure, but you fail to mention that it depends on which and how many shares you own.
There is no "sensible" way to manage IP traffic, Cisco kool aid notwithstanding.
It's been called a series of tubes, but it's more like a series of messages in bottles.
Better than carrier pidgeons but not by much.
You just throw bandwidth at it until it mostly works, maybe, hopefully, most of the time.
Now you need massive excess capacity, so Wall Street makes bank on the broken infrastructure instead of fixing it.
That's all you need to know about the politics of it.
Network neutrality is not the same thing as application neutrality.
A network is still allowed to prioritize real time packets like video streaming packets to their hearts content. They're just not allowed to prioritize their own over Netflix's or Amazon's over YouTube's.