Posted on 02/27/2015 6:08:33 AM PST by HomerBohn
That is SOP in the corporate state.
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Bright Line Rules: The first three rules ban practices that are known to harm the Open Internet:
No Blocking: broadband providers may not block access to legal content, applications, services, or non-harmful devices.
No Throttling: broadband providers may not impair or degrade lawful Internet traffic on the basis of content, applications, services, or non-harmful devices.
No Paid Prioritization: broadband providers may not favor some lawful Internet traffic over other lawful traffic in exchange for consideration of any kind—in other words, no “fast lanes.” This rule also bans ISPs from prioritizing content and services of their affiliates.
The bright-line rules against blocking and throttling will prohibit harmful practices that target specific applications or classes of applications. And the ban on paid prioritization ensures that there will be no fast lanes.
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Here is my interpretation of what that "No Paid Prioritization" clause actually means in practice. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Take Time Warner and Netflix for example. T-W streams Netflix at something like 2-3 mbs. That seems good enough for me for HD. But if I had a new 4K HDTV that stream would not be good enough to achieve the native resolution. So what is Netflix supposed to do about that?
I think what Netflix would do and is doing is to put their own equipment at Time Warner to pass that 4K feed at the higher rate. It doesn't cost Time-Warner anything but there is an obvious benefit to them. Netflix performance is improved. Time Warner benefits. Netflix benefits. We all benefit.
I think this is now against the law.
Am I right about that and/or my basic understanding of the rule?
I suspect that citizen mobility will be drastically curtailed in the next year. That has always been a bugaboo of the liberals.Commoners being able to just up and drive to a thousand miles just because they want to is hard on leftist sensibilities. Electronic internal passports are coming.
“Net Neutrality means political “neutrality.” we are going to get a Fairness Doctrine.”
Net neutrality does not give the FCC the authority to impose a Fairness Doctrine, or otherwise regulate Internet content. It will probably lead to increased costs, but there has never been a net neutrality proposal that allows for content regulation. The details of this one have obviously not yet been released, but there is no indication that there are content restrictions in this one either.
Online since the summer of 14.
Internet is a medium by which every one may publish to every one. The government can not regulate internet any more than it can regulate newspapers.
Regulating internet is “Operation Choke Point” on the First Amendment.
Thanks.
This is Fairness Doctrine all over again
While is agency is abbreviated FCC, it is more aptly pronounced “Feces”.
“Cameras being installed all along I 75” Where on I75?
Between lakecity fl and ocala and beyond. Also on hwy 441 in florida
Thanks for the reply. I am near I75 in Michigan, so I kind of wondered.
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