On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:24:08 -0700, Robert Baer
wrote:

John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:21:32 -0700, Kevin McMurtrie
wrote:

In article ,
Jim Thompson
wrote:

Net neutrality...

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/06/0...lity-with-outs
ide-group/

...Jim Thompson
An excellent argument if it was 1990. The only people in the US seeing
a free market for Internet services are those that are still using
dialup.

In some cities, you have a choise of wired DSL or cable or even
microwave. But in lots of places, people have only one provider of
reasonable-speed internet service. It's not unreasonable to demand
that a franchised provider, like a phone or cable company, transport
packets for a fee but not snoop their contents.

John

You must live in fantasy land--"not snoop their contents".
The Feds are everywhere.

Comcast shouldn't be "The Feds." They should ship stuff, like UPS, and
not poke around inside, or charge more for Netflix packets than for
their own.

Do you WANT your ISP to selectively slow down packets based on their
own self-interest?

John