You think government should restrict how Internet service providers price their services because people might put eyeballs in corned beef? Is that the "if government regulation is good in one area, then we should regulate everything" argument?
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:14 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > No reason the government should be telling private businesses how to run > tehir business? > > Lord! > > DO you think there might be butchers who toss rats into the meat grinder > which makes hot dogs if it were legal for them to do it? > > How about eye balls in cans of corned beef? A neighbour found part of one > in his sandwich. > > What about glycol in wine? > > What about melamine in milk? > > If builders in this city could get away with leaving insulation out of > their houses do you think they might? > > What about plastic plumbing pipes in contact with the flue of the furnace? > Or all the wiring in the basement of a house AND the kitchen run off one > breaker? > > How about floor joists sitting with 1/4" of catch on the supporting wall > and we're talking about the joists which hold up the middle of the living > room floor where perhaps someone might want to place a piano or where lots > of people might gather for a party... > > This is WITH regulations. > > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 11:26:30AM -0500, Jesse Kline wrote: > > <sarcasm>My god! Private, for-profit companies want to charge customers > > based on the amount of resources they consume. What is this world coming > > to?</sarcasm> > > > > I think this issue is fairly simple. There is no reason the government > > should be telling companies how to run their businesses. I don't like > UBB, > > but I see no reason why companies should not be allowed to engage in the > > practice. As with the net neutrality issue, the problem is a lack of > > competition, not a lack of regulation. There is obviously a demand for > > unlimited Internet and, as the article said, smaller ISPs would like to > > provide the service. We should be pushing policy makers to make it easier > > for new ISPs to break into the market and to provide service that > utilizes > > their own infrastructure, instead of relying on the existing companies > and > > common carrier provisions. Here are a few ideas of what we can do: > > http://thesis.kline.ca/net-neutrality?start=4 > > > > But the open media guys are not pushing for competition, because they > think > > the Internet should be a public good. Simply put, they hate private > > companies and look to the government to solve all their problems. It is > no > > wonder that the NDP is on the same side of the issue. > > > > Jesse > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > -- Jesse Kline, M.J. Freelance Journalist http://jesse.kline.ca/
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