On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I thought that Casey and Jerry were being sarcastic and it was a joke > about the need for gatekeepers. Maybe I assumed incorrectly? > > Judah > > It's a joke until someones blog gets so large, your ISP starts charging your access to that blog OR, blog owner needs to pay ISP's to make sure it's content is delivered. http://www.nojitter.com/feature/226200120?pgno=1 This is copied from page four, but the war on net neutrality rages on. The possible scenarios if Net Neutrality is not enforced are: * Consumers could have their access to web sites slowed, disconnected or blocked if the site producer does not pay an extra fee. * Content providers could pay extra to have their content accelerated over broadband connections, providing an advantage over their competitors. * During high traffic periods, broadband providers could discriminate against web sites to control and manage traffic. * Free content access could be reduced by the ISPs by charging heavy fees. * It is possible that an ISP could censor content. The AT&T ISP Acceptable Use Policy already has a clause that they can terminate service if they do not like comments about them. * Even though Google is connected to one ISP, another ISP would be able to charge Google for traffic that traverses that second ISP's network. * There will probably be a number of different and confusing access plans, some with caps on the amount of content a user sends and receives. Some trials of this nature add the total megabytes in both directions to determine the cap. * Some ISPs will offer free or discounted services to non-profit and educational institutions to get good press while charging everyone else higher fees. * Comcast is buying NBC. Comcast could refuse to send the NBC content to subscribers of other ISP services. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:323739 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
