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Comment on Net Neutrality & the Fifth Amendment by greenelaw

greenelaw — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:48:15 +0000

The author fundamentally misstates how internet data is transferred. There is no relationship between content providers and ISPs. The relationship is between ISPs and consumers. The consumer has a contractual relationship with the ISP, who lets the user access servers using the ISP’s network and it is the user that brings the content over the ISPs network and back to the computer and not the content provider. To frame it as an easement relationship between the content providers and ISPs is just plain wrong.

Comment on FCC’s utter incoherence on Paid Prioritization by Verizon Sues to Undo FCC’s Net Neutrality Power Grab–Media Marxist Responses Most Feeble | Stop Net Regulation

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:26:42 +0000

[...] they flung wide open the door to lawsuits aplenty with their dictatorial vote – and the sloppy, self-contradicting and unauthorized order on which they [...]

Comment on Call the Net Neutrality police – DailyKos loads faster than Foxnews by Sen. Smalley and the Left Are Wrong on Net Neutrality | Stop Net Regulation

Sen. Smalley and the Left Are Wrong on Net Neutrality | Stop Net Regulation — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:30:47 +0000

[...] George Ou at Digital Society has a made a rather interesting observation about Sen. Franken’s Netroots musings on net neutrality. [...]

Comment on FCC’s utter incoherence on Paid Prioritization by Media Marxists No Different: They’re Not Letting the Arizona Crisis to Go to Waste | Stop Net Regulation

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:59:09 +0000

[...] TIMES in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s partisanly-passed, wildly unpopular and technologically impaired and incoherent December 21st Internet power grab [...]

Comment on Breaking the Piñata by Verizon Sues to Undo FCC’s Net Neutrality Power Grab–Media Marxist Responses Most Feeble | Stop Net Regulation

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:23:23 +0000

[...] wound; they flung wide open the door to lawsuits aplenty with their dictatorial vote – and the sloppy, self-contradicting and unauthorized order on which they [...]

Comment on Netflix spends 20 times more on postage than bandwidth by Wireless Provider Follows Verizon in Suing FCC to Undo Net Neutrality | Stop Net Regulation

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:21:55 +0000

[...] away from postal delivery of their movies to Internet delivery thereof. It currently costs them 1/20th as much to deliver via the Web than via the U.S. Postal [...]

Comment on Data roaming mischief . . . Another pebble in the digital river? by Cell Phone Price Controls: The FCC’s Next Power Grab | Stop Net Regulation

Cell Phone Price Controls: The FCC’s Next Power Grab | Stop Net Regulation — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:37:57 +0000

[...] Which brings us to cell phone data roaming. Which is basically this: [...]

Comment on Ookla data debunks FCC report – US ISPs exonerated by FCC Broadband Performance Data Vindicates ISPs « High Tech Forum

FCC Broadband Performance Data Vindicates ISPs « High Tech Forum — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:53:39 +0000

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Comment on Conflating broadband speed with Internet speed is misleading by FCC Broadband Performance Data Vindicates ISPs « High Tech Forum

FCC Broadband Performance Data Vindicates ISPs « High Tech Forum — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 03:56:39 +0000

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Comment on Internet As A Public Utility Is Dumb by internet public utility - UTILITY DOCUMENT – UTILITY DOCUMENT

internet public utility - UTILITY DOCUMENT – UTILITY DOCUMENT — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:13:53 +0000

[...] Digital Society » Blog Archive » Internet As A Public Utility Is DumbDescription : The article in question was calling for the Internet as we know it to become a public utility. This is a meme that crops up from time to time, but has definitely had some additional traction as of late. …http://www.digitalsociety.org/ .. [...]