On Thursday, July 17, 2014 7:48:00 PM UTC-4, Stormin Mormon wrote:
On 7/17/2014 7:37 PM, Mayayana wrote:

Note that those with their shorts in a knot over "you libs"
told us that net neutrality was about:


HB: "We have ONE DAY to tell the FCC that the Internet belongs to us too, not just to corporations that want to get faster speed than just us regular users."

That isn't what net neutrality is about. Corporations, depending on the type,
and application have had more bandwith from day one. Obviously Ebay's bandwith needs are very different than grandmas. Aslo, certain traffic, eg VOIP needs to be treated differently to ensure quality of service, unless you want your
calls breaking up.


M: If they do it the way you describe I
think that would be ideal. We can't honestly expect ISPs to
foot the bill for streaming movies.

Bingo! And that is why ISP want to charge companies like Netflix, that
put a very heavy load on the internet, additional fees. Yet M is here
bitching about them doing it because allegedly it violates "net neutrality".


M: Netflix can't just keep creating 20% of Internet traffic without
someone paying for it.

Bingo, same comment as above.


M: For instance, someone who doesn't watch sports nevertheless has to indirectly pay the fees for sports networks. In the same way, without
Net neutrality we could all pay for things like Netflix, whether
we stream movies or not.

And then she's totally backwards again. Right now we *are* all paying for the
infrastructure to support the huge bandwith sucked up by Netflix. It's
exactly like paying for cable channels, bandwith, etc that you don't use.
So, ISPs want to start doing *exactly* what you say you want, ie to
start making Netflix pay more, yet here you are bitching about it. Do
you always argue against yourself?


So, yeah, "you libs" sure are a confused bunch. And the part that
really annoys me, is that you find problems that basically are non-existent,
that you obviously don;t understand, and then proceed to tell us how
bad it all is, how free markets don't work, how it all needs more govt
regulation, etc.

My internet works fine. It's gone from 56Kbits to 100Mbits in 15 years.
I'm happy with the job the FCC is doing. I
freely admit I don't understand all the issues involved. But I clearly
understand enough to know that the three libs here have proven they
don't understand even the basics, but want to impose there nonsense on the
rest of us. And somehow, as usual, they even managed to drag Bush and the
Iraq war into it. Go figure.