angrymnk wrote:
gbaji wrote:
Again, you are literally missing the largest 99% of the market and money flow involved and complaining because your teeny tiny piece doesn't work the way you want.
So what you are saying is that ISPs do not need those pitiful things called subscribers? Or maybe some of those subscribers are also businesses involved in the traffic? I know, I know... it is just crazy.
Sigh. No. I'm saying that ISPs and the business they directly control represents only a tiny fraction of the entire network. You are obsessing over the ISPs, but ISPs are themselves customers of the backbone providers. They rent their bandwidth. Do you get this? You are looking at a tiny part of the network, mistakenly thinking that the big fish in that tiny part have too much power and control, and are attempting to pass legislation which would "fix" that problem, while not realizing that you would break a whole lot of other things that are much more significant.
Your problem (and the problem of most people when they consider this issue) is that when you read a proposal to make network traffic "neutral" by making it illegal to prioritize packet routing, you only think in terms of your own local ISP. You are not seeing the bigger picture. I've been trying to explain this to you, but you just aren't getting it.
The problem with net neutrality is that it would also place restrictions on routing at the backbone level, with potentially catastrophic results if the law were actually enforced. You simply don't understand how much of the efficient operation of the network is utterly reliant on massive amounts of traffic shaping at that level, which overwhelmingly results in positive performance for the users of the network. The fact that an occasional ISP might do something stupid with their own routing rules within their own little domain is no reason to toss the internet baby out with the bathwater by placing ridiculous rules on the backbone systems.
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p.s. I had a cute set of questions regarding whether the internet is regulated, but I think you may not be ready for those unless you answer the above first. I do not want to give you too much.
P.S. Perhaps if you stopped asking me pointless questions and started answering some yourself (like say the 8th time I've asked you to show that you know what net neutrality actually does), maybe that would be more productive?
Edited, Jan 22nd 2014 1:54pm by gbaji