[opendtv] Re: Ajit Pai thanks Congress for helping him kill net neutrality rules
- From: "Craig Birkmaier" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "brewmastercraig" for DMARC)
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 08:54:31 -0500
On Jan 3, 2019, at 7:39 PM, Manfredi (US), Albert E
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Those who were promoting a non-neutral Internet kept distracting everyone
with nonsense about "Congress" needed to write a new law, even though
Congress already did, twice, for telecom neutrality?
No Bert. Those who are seriously interested in a permanent Net neutrality
solution understand that Congress must legislate a solution. Short of this,
with each change of administration the FCC can flip/flop, like the “dying fish”
that it is.
Congress ALREADY instructed the FCC to treat the internet as an information
service in the 1995 Telecom updates. The reality is that the era of treating
telecommunications as a natural monopoly IS OVER. It took several decades, but
telecom deregulation is now a reality. As a result, the public is no longer
saddled with monopoly pricing, and technical innovation has proceeded at a pace
that has been unprecedented in the history of telecommunications in the U.S.
Just saw an article a few days ago that claimed that 5G will not deliver on its
promise, but with 6G we will achieve most of the goals of 5G.
As John suggested with his post about Internet speeds, the marketplace is the
right way to manage telecommunications and the Internet, not a bunch of
political hacks in D.C.
Natural monopolies were nothing more than collusion between major
industrialists and the politicians to maximize profits for those who could
afford to play the regulation game.
But the worst example of regulatory capture and payback is what happened with
mass media. As much of the world has moved to remove mass media from political
control, here in the U.S. we are experiencing the opposite - the mass media has
evolved into Pravda on steroids, with Internet edge providers leading the
charge to destroy constitutional government in the U.S.
Sad.
Bert again:
Hokay! Their wishes will hopefully be met, in spades. Corruption of public
officials needs to be neutered. And something similar has to happen at the
EPA too. Two agencies that have become thoroughly banana republic incompetent.
I agree with Bert that it is time to neuter the corruption. There’s a guy in a
big house in D.C. that’s trying...
I would point out that the EPA in particular was a Banana Republic operation,
particularly under Obama. But in reality it evolved into a third world
operation gradually after it was created under the Nixon administration.
We cleaned up environment in the U.S. at a huge cost, leaving a massive agency
to figure out how to maintain and grow its mission. We are the only developed
country in the world that is actually reducing CO2 emissions, not that this
really matters. What matters is that most of the developed world just relocated
the sources of pollution to Asia.
The FCC has been a political mess for decades. I saw it in action when I worked
on the U.S. DTV standard. Here’s a reasonable question to consider.
We have seen Internet connectivity improve exponentially since the days of
Bert’s love affair with telephone modems. My first modem was something like
28.8 Kbps; I just checked my cable broadband - it’s 165 Mbps this morning.
Meanwhile, broadcasters in the U.S. are still stuck with a 19.2 Mbps pipe that
is using the archaic MPEG-2 standard. Time to reclaim the TV spectrum.
Regards
Craig
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