Welcome to one of the obvious reasons to be in support of net neutrality. (I just had this discussion with a friend this morning so I was thinking about it all day)
Don't think for a minute that every little ISP that's worth 1/50th of Google's worth wants to steal every little bit of action from Google that they can get away with. You'd think it'd be enough to have the privilege to siphon $40/month out of everyone's pockets and not even give them inbound port 80 or a static IP address - these ISP's are not happy until they are also taking money out of the website/content-owners' pockets as well. (I don't think any ISP understands the concept of not biting the hands that feed it.) If some sort of provision is enabled that allows ISP's to reduce or limit service to neutral content sites, etc. I and thousands of others will be setting up a free/community/public/wireless type network and ditching the "ISP" model. It'd be rough for a few years, but hopefully that model would succeed eventually. Isn't that how ISP's got started anyway, community projects with people running their own backlines and standing up banks of modems, etc.? On 05/17/2010 04:35 PM, Mark Holmquist wrote: > Yes, that seems to be the case. I've seen it happen before with other > ISPs, too. They are greedy when it comes to their search traffic, I > guess.... > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
