Monty Solomon posted:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/net-neutrality-foe-marsha-blackburn-wins-us-senate-seat/
This is not as bad as it might sound, luckily. It's a more benign level of
technical ignorance than what the crooks at the FCC are attempting.
"Blackburn has authored several net neutrality bills the past few years,
including the 'Open Internet Preservation Act,' which would ban blocking and
throttling but allow ISPs to create paid fast lanes and prohibit state
governments from enacting their own net neutrality laws."
The good news is that neither blocking nor throttling would be tolerated.
The dumbass ignorant aspect is that "paid fast lanes" only make technical sense
if other streams are throttled. Paid fast lanes make sense if the
infrastructure, and primarily here it's the edge broadband service we're
talking about, is overbooked. In which case, certain packets can be given
priority service. They get moved to the front of the queue. What does she think
that means? What must you do with the packets that are bumped from the head of
the line?
I'll give her the benefit of the doubt. "Pointless throttling," meant only to
degrade the signal, isn't allowed.
The simple fact is, Tom Wheeler's FCC made some very logical decisions, when
they imposed telecom rules. They understood that any walled-in IPTV service,
which the MVPD might want to use for their MVPD "broadcast" streams, would be
given priority, legitimately. They understood that attempting to fine-tune
priorities in the ISP's Internet broadband service was a lost cause. They
explained all of that very clearly.
Now, instead, we have these pin-headed formula-thinker extremists in the
Republican Party that have made a partisan issue out of something that everyone
should want. Too stupid to think beyond their rigid formula, I could easily
tick off all of the formulaic causes they feel obliged to support, and they let
an utterly corrupt FCC Chairman lead them like lemmings.
Both parties are hopeless, for different reasons. The Republicans in Congress
need to get past their "party of stupid" reputation, and pay attention to the
fact that their approval rating is half what Trump's approval rating is. For
reasons just like this one.
Bert
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