I feel like we as an online community get far too bogged down in tangents concerning this issue rather than dealing with the real concerns of Net Neutrality...that of course being what does the "Net Neutrality" legislation actually look like? How does it read? Is there any way, in the form that the bill is written, that the telecoms' lawyers could construe the bill in their favor? Personally I am concerned about Section (A) subsection 2 (Duty of Broadband Service Providers- With respect to any broadband service offered to the public, each broadband service provider shall--)"not prevent or obstruct a user from attaching or using any device to the network of such broadband service provider, only if such device does not physically damage or substantially degrade the use of such network by other subscribers; " Now I have to ask myself, if I have been allocated a certain bandwidth by Comcast and I constantly seed torrents and fully utilize my bandwidth allotment, does this section of the Bill allow them to throttle me down because I am constantly using all of my bandwidth?
Its questions like this that we need to ask ourselves. We do not need to become bogged down in the technical aspects of networking or flame one another because a poster doesn't "truly" understand how the Internet works and cannot properly analogize the issue. This will ultimately be an issue of legislation and law and if we as a technical community want to take part in the creation of these laws we need to lobby our representatives and senators just as hard as the telecoms are. Go to the House or Senate website and search for the exact phrase "Net Neutrality"...read it, think about it and write your congressman.
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I feel like we as an online community get far too bogged down in tangents concerning this issue rather than dealing with the real concerns of Net Neutrality...that of course being what does the "Net Neutrality" legislation actually look like? How does it read? Is there any way, in the form that the bill is written, that the telecoms' lawyers could construe the bill in their favor? Personally I am concerned about Section (A) subsection 2 (Duty of Broadband Service Providers- With respect to any broadband service offered to the public, each broadband service provider shall--)"not prevent or obstruct a user from attaching or using any device to the network of such broadband service provider, only if such device does not physically damage or substantially degrade the use of such network by other subscribers; " Now I have to ask myself, if I have been allocated a certain bandwidth by Comcast and I constantly seed torrents and fully utilize my bandwidth allotment, does this section of the Bill allow them to throttle me down because I am constantly using all of my bandwidth?
Its questions like this that we need to ask ourselves. We do not need to become bogged down in the technical aspects of networking or flame one another because a poster doesn't "truly" understand how the Internet works and cannot properly analogize the issue. This will ultimately be an issue of legislation and law and if we as a technical community want to take part in the creation of these laws we need to lobby our representatives and senators just as hard as the telecoms are. Go to the House or Senate website and search for the exact phrase "Net Neutrality"...read it, think about it and write your congressman.