Obama Urges FCC to Re-Classify Internet

[Artema]

How is that a shitty situation? The internet exists and thrives preciously because it has been the free market environment we conservatives and libertarians have been carping about for the last half century.

If the government had started these stupid rules back in the early days of the internet we'd all still be stuck on Compuserve and AOL and Netflix would be the stuff of science fiction.

So you're for government intervention? lol. I don't know what you're getting at. We're just spinning rhetoric here.

[68Charger]

True neutrality would be to pay for specific speeds. 1.5 mb, 7 mb, 15 mb, 50 mb, etc. Charging based on how much data you transfer is what Net Neutrality would oppose. That opens up the carrier to offering special services that bypass that data cap, which is anti-competitive.

EVERY TCP session on the internet is a 2-way conversation (it is a "reliable protocol" in that it sends ACK packets back to acknowledge that each packet was received.), and every destination has a source... direct communication between those endpoints, no matter how many.

so when there are 3 million subscribers that each have 10Mbps, then how much BW does the provider of that content need? (30Tbps) What BW level did they subscribe to?

So you're for government intervention? lol. I don't know what you're getting at. We're just spinning rhetoric here.

Zund is saying the Gov't would have limited innovation and growth of the internet- which is what we're seeing again with content providers like Netflix & Amazon Prime... and something has to give- and those companies are arguing over who is going to. I say let them work it out, and keep the damn Government OUT of it.