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Net Neutrality: 'Father Of Internet' Joins Tech Leaders in Condemning Repeal Plan (theguardian.com)
More than 20 internet pioneers and leaders including the "father of the internet", Vint Cerf; the inventor of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee; and the Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak have urged the FCC to cancel its vote to repeal net neutrality, describing the plan as "based on a flawed and factually inaccurate" understanding of how the internet works. From a report: "The FCC's rushed and technically incorrect proposed order to repeal net neutrality protections without any replacement is an imminent threat to the internet we worked so hard to create. It should be stopped," said the technology luminaries in an open letter to lawmakers (PDF) with oversight of the Federal Communications Commission on Monday. The letter refers to the FCC's proposed Restoring Internet Freedom Order, which removes net neutrality protections introduced in 2015 to ensure that internet service providers (ISPs) such as Comcast, AT&T and Verizon would treat all web content and applications equally and not throttle, block or prioritise some content in return for payment. The FCC's vote on the proposed order is scheduled for 14 December and it is expected to be approved. "It is important to understand that the FCC's proposed order is based on a flawed and factually inaccurate understanding of Internet technology," the internet pioneers state, adding that the flaws were outlined in detail in a 43-page comment submitted by 200 tech leaders to the FCC in July.
It's not phrased in legal terms, therefore Pai will ignore it.
Of course, if it was phrased the way he wanted, he'd find another reason to ignore it.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Sometimes I think the current administration is just doing things to purposely piss people off, like a heel in wrestling.
He's a bona fide e celebrity and he's also very pro Net Neutrality. Which Google clearly see as being in their long term interests.
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Both the article and summary state Vint Cerf is the father of the Internet and Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web.
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And _he_ wouldn't make the claim either. TBL is the father of the _World Wide Web_.
You also wouldn't be able to find a person under the age of 30 who would know the difference, thus making semantics rather pointless.
In fact, with the way we've marketed ourselves away from the "www" domain preface, I doubt if even 25% of the population even knows what the hell the "World Wide Web" is. The masses only know it as the "internet" now (or in the case of GenY/Z, their "left arm").
What is the problem they are trying to fix by repealing Net Neutrality? I don't get it...
Technology just amplifies what's already there. For the people who are interested in using it it expand their world and genuinely connect with and learn from others, I think social media is tremendously beneficial. But if you're determined to be prejudiced, it can give you an endless source of justification for your prejudices, and if you're vulnerable to disinformation, you can find enough to choke on. Most importantly, both the good and bad effects are probably at work in everyone. Otherwise smart, good people can make really dumb mistakes.
That's not what is being claimed
"father of the internet", Vint Cerf; the inventor of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee; and the Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak
In xml it would be
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Net neutrality was introduced to stop nasty things that were planned or introduced by the ISPs. There was an imminent threat when it was introduced, and the ISPs certainly haven't become any nicer in the meantime.
All it will take is 1 money man to control it all & buy up all the ISPs out there (yes, it's doable - monopoly laws = shit now) to control what is said, seen, & heard.
APK
P.S.=> Welcome to the 'gated community' that is going to be nothing more than a cattle herding brainwashing system to CONTROL THE MASSES (who often don't think for themselves which IS excusable as they're only products of their environmental inputs believing what they're told as I was myself as a boy believing they actually TELL THE TRUTH - no more of that here in "garbage in/garbage out I/O data of the mind") - & what do the controllers DO if you tell it how it is & they have no VALID response? This -> https://apple.slashdot.org/com... TRYING TO HIDE IT!... apk
Public Support, “Light Touch” Regulation, and the Coming Court Challenges https://www.nakedcapitalism.co... So, handing over half of US households to the tender mercies of an ISP monopoly is transparent, alright, but not, I think, in the way that Pai means. I’m sure the populist farmers and Grangers of Minnesota or South Dakota who had to ship their grain to market over one railroad in the 1880s would find RIFO oddly familiar. “Freedom for whom?” they might ask.
Google arbitrarily blocks Amazon devices from accessing its content... https://www.ft.com/content/500...
Could be they don't teach how semicolons are used in school anymore.
The youth of today probably think their use are as separators in video game titles.
Hummm, on one side we have ISPs, Ajit a lawyer, fake public comments, and random Slashdot posters. On the other we have independent media companies, the old FCC head who was an ISP insider, EFF, 20 internet leaders, boat load of public comments, and random Slashdot posters.
Which side to pick... decisions decisions... hummm... so tough to choose.
See the story here: https://yro.slashdot.org/story.... This is what the rest of the world will look like without net neutrality.
Correction: "...spend a lot on campaign donations..." (not "of")
Table-ized A.I.
besides Trump and Big Business / the cable providers I mean...
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
"It is important to understand that the FCC's proposed order is based on a flawed and factually inaccurate understanding of Internet technology."
It's not they don't understand. It's that they don't care. Or put another way, it's not a bug, it's a feature.
The powers-that-be behind the repeal of Net Neutrality know what the effects will be. They're counting on them.
I'm not sure any law is needed. All the screeching seems to be about actions that would already be illegal or actionable by either States or DOJ, or companies that were harmed. It's called Anti-trust and unfair competition.
It's been pointed out that NN regulation might legitimately be something the FTC should regulate.
NN deals essentially with trade and business practices, while the FCC is supposed to deal with airwaves and technical issues, so FTC seems like a good fit.
Too many slashdotters are surprised politicians and political appointees are not logical. Keep in mind you are dealing with Ferengi's, NOT Vulcans. Rule of Acquisition #623: "Logic is Not Profitable" (disclaimer: I made up that ROA, although there are existing similar ones.)
Note that I am not making a distinction between parties nor administrations here. It's a general rule. As far which group is more Ferengish, I'll leave that debate to another thread. And you can substitute "power" for profits in many situations.
Table-ized A.I.
Muphry's Law, isn't it?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
the father need to produce more bastard internets this one has grown sick and is about to die.
You may believe this, but I can assure you that most lawmakers who oppose net neutrality are not as concerned about the nature of net neutrality's legislation as they are about the very existence of such regulations in any form. I would bet good money that if it were done "the right way" as you propose, conservatives would still work to repeal net neutrality, using some other excuse to conceal motives which most people would consider to be mustache-twirling villainy.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
The administration is doing what's right legally
I disagree. The right thing legally is to recognize the actual fact of the matter: an ISP is communications carrier, not a content creator.
The FCC is doing everything it can to distract from this simple fact. It's a gigantic lie, intended to benefit major corporations at the expense of us all.
You're going to have to show up at the polls. And that includes your primary. Until there's a party in charge that supports it it's dead.
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"It is important to understand that the FCC's proposed order is based on a flawed and factually inaccurate understanding of Internet technology,"
This is very incorrect. The FCC understands that, without net neutrality, internet technology will lock in far more profits for Comcast and their allies. That's the only thing that they care about.
All their verbiage that people are decrying as incorrect is nothing more than FUD to justify a decision that has nothing to do with technology, or what's best for the majority of people, or anything else besides increasing and, more to the point, ensuring profits for the big guys for years to come.
Did you ignore all the people that corrected you the last time you posted this drivel?
The court challenge resulted in reclassifying the internet as Title II - which actually put the internet under FCC jurisdiction. So sure, they said the FCC didn't have the authority, but then they gave it to them.
Tim Berners-Lee favored fast lanes which makes him support Pai's position on Net Neutrality. I quoted him 10 years ago here http://www.zdnet.com/article/a.... He said "Net Neutrality is NOT saying that one shouldn’t pay more money for high quality of service. We always have, and we always will."
He conclusively proves that the FCC doesn't understand the Internet; then he concludes, therefore, the FCC should be the ones to regulate it. I'm not sure I follow that.
" You can't fix stupid " Ron White - Comedian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Can someone decipher this?
Is AC saying that Cerf was opposed to home servers, a position that no sane person with any technological inclination would take?
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
Don't listen to this AC either - in some jurisdictions, unusual ballots ("absentee", "provisional", or some other paper ballot in lieu of electronic voting, whether mailed-in or not) are NOT counted until all votes cast by "normal" means have all been processed after the polls close, and only if the estimated total number of issued, unusual ballots is still enough to affect who wins.
In other words, if there were a million unusual ballots issued, but there's more than a million normal votes separating the winner from the losers, the unusual ballots are ignored. The notion sucks, but I suppose it's done to avoid wasted effort (== wasted tax dollars).
Get your ass to the polls. Vote by whatever method is considered "usual", and if it's electronic, just suck it up, use the stupid machine, and double-check that the little printed receipt matches who you voted for.
Bob Kahn, co-designer of TCP/IP (with Vint obviously) has been against net neutrality for many years.
It certainly are.