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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
ensure equality of load time among web sites

True, but only in the sense that an inequality cannot be artificially produced by the ISP. If they have a slow server, or you just bought the lowest-end slow connection, net neutrality does not apply.

His analogy of phone apps is also heavily flawed. Traffic shaping in order to maintain network performance has been allowed for in all network neutrality proposals.

Steven’s analogy to the postal service is the most apt in this video. Net Neutrality, if applied to postage and shipping, would force the USPS to treat a 50-pound barbell the same as an envelope of less than one ounce.

Absolutely false, a strawman. The kettle bell will obviously take more time since it's more data, and nothing in net neutrality affects this. Nothing in net neutrality prevents charging by amount of data sent. Nothing in net neutrality prevents data caps. What it does say is that the ISP can't artificially slow down or stop your shipping of the kettle ball or the envelope because, for example, they compete with the ISP's own kettle ball service.

Then he goes on to talk about how companies that operate on the Internet would be burdened with the costs of government regulation. What a load of BS! Net neutrality doesn't address the operations of companies that do business on the Internet -- it addresses the operations of the ISPs to make sure they can't interfere with their business.

It's simple: Winners without neutrality: The ISPs. Winners without net neutrality: Everyone else, businesses big and small on the Internet and the people who do business with them. It is the anti-neutrality crowd that would burden businesses with extra costs, in the form of having to pay off the ISPs in order to be able to reach consumers. Businesses like Google could afford to pay them, not the little guy.

I think it's impossible for the anti-neutrality to say anything without lying.

12 posted on 05/24/2011 5:26:27 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

——————it addresses the operations of the ISPs to make sure they can’t interfere with their business.—————

There’s nothing to prevent the marxists from interfering with their business.

-————It is the anti-neutrality crowd that would burden businesses with extra costs———————

Every government regulation incurs a burden of extra cost.


14 posted on 05/25/2011 7:37:12 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing ( Net Neutrality - What's the biggest threat to the leftist media's old order?)
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