Re: net neutrality - explained in a humourous way

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Calvin Browne <[email protected]> wrote:
>    If you can't enter into a contract with your clients to, for example,
>    deliver neflix faster or slower than say google video, because of net
>    neutrality laws, then those rights have been expropriated.
>    --Calvin

The internet was but started as a loosely connected set of networks.
Today that is seen as if it is a telephone network

The issue is more somethings like we have in South Africa: only Telkom
provides ADSL service.
there they have (for example) only Comcast that provides cable TV in
specific areas/states. Comcast's business is cable TV, and now they
also provide Internet (fast) on that same connection (The reason I
understand they can provide viewer numbers is because those cable TV
boxes can talk back to the station to give channel information, vs. us
that only receive TV broadcasts).

Now NetFlix is a competition to those cable TV networks, so then why
can't they limit NetFlix on their cables if that's a competition? Why
should they peer with NetFlix if that's a competition?

It's called a captive audience/clientele, yes, we freedom fighters
hate that idea, but that is a different story.

Now the "solution" would be similar to South Africa where Telkom
provides last mile access to the ISPs (like
Axxess/OpenWeb/AfriHost/Vodacom/MTN/IS/etc.) inside the exchanges,
much like the carrier select offered in other countries, but for that
you'll need to open up not a government/parastatal organization, but
you'll actually  be telling a company (like
IS/Vodacom/MTN/NeoTel/etc.) to share their networks with others...

 I think this issue is much more complex than what we try to make it
whenever you are competing with your supplier/client.

Yours

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>    On 24/06/2014 14:57, Roland Giesler wrote:
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>    On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:35 PM, Calvin Browne
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>    And leaves out the bit where private property rights are expropriated.
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>    Please elaborate?
>    Roland
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