[opendtv] Re: Freepress: Net Neutrality Violations: A Brief History
- From: Craig Birkmaier <brewmastercraig@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 08:29:33 -0500
On Feb 4, 2018, at 8:20 PM, Manfredi, Albert E <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
For those who can't think beyond parroting the formula-phrases of corrupt
government officials.
"In the absence of any rules, violations of the open internet will become
more and more common."
What crap. Just the opposite is true. And this article said and did nothing to
claim otherwise. Rather ironic that it covers disputes from Canada and Europe,
as well as the many stories that have been run into the ground here in the U.S.
The reality is that all of the valid U.S. disputes were resolved by the FTC,
Courts and the marketplace; and many of these disputes were mischaracterized by
the Net Neutrality supporters. This paragraph says it all:
The common denominator for all of these problems, unbeknownst to users at
the time, was their ISPs' failure to provide enough capacity for this
traffic to make it on to their networks in the first place. In other words,
the problem was not congestion on the broadband lines coming into homes and
businesses, but at the "interconnection" point where the traffic users'
request from other parts of the internet first comes into the ISPs' networks.
The common denominator here is that the Edge Providers were looking for a free
ride for their traffic. In the case of the attempt by Netflix to share down
Comcast, Netflix purposely switched to CDNs that were incapable of handling
their traffic, then blamed Comcast.
The reality is that ISPs are NOT RESPONSIBLE for provisioning their networks to
handle massive asymmetrical traffic for Edge Services - that is the
responsibility of the Edge Service. When Netflix took responsibility for its
traffic, placing edge servers in Comcast broadband head ends the problems ended.
It is totally unrealistic to believe that in a rapidly evolving industry there
will never be problems. It is also unrealistic that problems will not arise
under heavy handed Title II regulation. The issue is how problems are resolved
and the roadblocks and costs that heavy handed regulation add to the cost of
services.
Exactly. It happens slowly, so as not to alarm anyone too soon, and of
course, blame is always deflected when problems occur. Just as it was with
the Netflix case, which finally caused Tom Wheeler to do what's right.
No Bert. The Netflix issue was a canard. Even this article, as biased as it is,
did not cite that “problem” specifically, as they knew it was not a Net
neutrality violation. Instead they gave us the paragraph I cited above, which
was just more Fake News.
What happens slowly is the inevitable creep of over-regulation that results
when the government tells us they are going to protect us. What happens slowly
is the added costs of regulation that keep causing consumers to pay more for
the lawyers, lobbyists, multiple layers of regulators, and paying off the
politicians.
Wheeler caved to an over reaching President and Administration that attempted -
and almost succeeded - in fundamentally changing America into a third world
banana republic.
Regards
Craig
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