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I find the argument for net neutrality chock full of hype, lies,\u00a0 logical fallacies, and bluntly, without merit. What I hear \u00a0most logical fallacies of the slippery\u00a0 slope, it will break the free internet, is \u00a0without verifiable poof, by activist do not\u00a0 have any technical knowledge\u00a0 on packet technology and how networks work . I bet without looking\u00a0 they can\u2019t even tell me the first layer of the OSI model.\u00a0 I have worked the industry and I talking beyond just an IP address but network equipment.<\/p>\n
Net\u00a0 Neutrality\u00a0 is a solution looking for a problem. Packet data has always\u00a0 been prioritized, a email pack doesn\u2019t need the priority\u00a0 as a\u00a0 video packet. \u00a0The way \u00a0packet technology\u00a0 works\u00a0 like\u00a0 Highway\u00a0 217.\u00a0 The highway\u00a0 gets its feed from\u00a0 interchanges\u00a0 (on ramps and off ramps) major arterial\u00a0 streets and carry a wide range of traffic. Same a network backbone.\u00a0\u00a0 Now highway and the network can only handle \u00a0so much traffic.\u00a0 There a point where demand exceeds capability\u00a0\u00a0 we get a jam like southbound 217 form Walker to Denny.<\/p>\n
A lot of\u00a0 the net\u00a0 slowdown\u00a0 is traffic demands\u00a0\u00a0 exceed capability. Now Netflix is acting like a spoiled brat. There want push more traffic (more 180\u00a0 and 4K HD) \u00a0so\u00a0 backbone providers\u00a0 did \u00a0\u00a0the numbers and said sure\u00a0 but we have build more capacity\u00a0 but it Netflix casing\u00a0 the problem net Netflix\u00a0 will have pay more. Netflix\u00a0 balks and\u00a0 went to the FCC, The FCC exceeded authority, and\u00a0 now Netflix is having a temper tantrum that affects us all.\u00a0 Netflix need to put on the big boy\u00a0 pants, it is like \u00a0me having a fit because subway will not sell me a 12 inch \u00a0sub for the price of a 6 inch sub.<\/p>\n
Of course with these activist \u00a0want is to regulate or should I say nationalize the Internet as an utility with price controls.\u00a0 The problem is the history of such regulations; regulations \u00a0impedes innovation and investment. \u00a0A good example\u00a0 is the French Minitel Videotext system. \u00a0While state of the art in the 1970 and early 1980\u2019s it was eclipsed \u00a0by the internet, Minitel had hindered internet \u00a0innovation in \u00a0France.<\/p>\n
\u201cInternet service spread much more slowly in France than it did elsewhere in Europe or in the United States, largely because of the popularity of the Minitel, historians say. Only around the turn of the century did the Internet come to much of this soggy western region, an expanse of green that bulges out into the Atlantic Ocean.\u201d( 1.)<\/p>\n
The said \u00a0can be said of government \u00a0regulated \u00a0Internet, instead of an innovated\u00a0 fast system Netflix would find itself in a slow but equalized \u00a0bureaucratic net.<\/p>\n
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A comment I posted to Forbs :<\/p>\n
I like the idea of\u00a0 definition of economics :\u00a0 The allocation of scare resources that have attentive uses. The broadband back bone\u00a0 fits this description.\u00a0 These also something\u00a0\u00a0 you missed in your\u00a0 description: as demand\u00a0 exceed resources, speed\u00a0 tends to slow down.\u00a0 As highway\u00a0 traffic increases\u00a0 the more likelihood\u00a0 of a traffic jam.\u00a0 I suspect a lot of slowdowns are not because\u00a0 ISP\u00a0 are blocking content. It is not in their best interest when customers\u00a0 will find a different\u00a0 service or do without. The problem with net neutrality is like saying\u00a0 to be fair,\u00a0 ban HOV\u00a0 lanes; therefore, everybody including Netflix\u00a0\u00a0 can sit in the same traffic jam.<\/p>\n
Much of the argument I see is a lot of logical fallacies. Nobody is\u00a0 braking the internet, and the net does not\u00a0 give you the right to other people\u00a0 property. Netflix is acting childish and irrational; l they think the solution is build more capacity but the providers should\u00a0 foot the bill. It is like saying,\u00a0 if I am extra hungry,\u00a0 McDonalds has to sell me a extra large fries for the price of a small fires.<\/p>\n
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My response to Internet\u00a0 freedom day: the net doesn\u2019t give you right to my network.<\/p>\n