Steven Alligood wrote: > ROFL. > > It should be illegal to put up advertising billboards, just because you > don't like them? > > How about commercials on TV? Let's make those illegal as well, how dare > they put advertising in my shows? > > What about the ads on the back of the frozen pizza you bought at > Smiths? How outrageous. > > The only thing I see as UnAmerican here is the limiting of people making > money with completely legal methods.
Your strawmen aren't completely accurate analogies to how the Internet works. I'd say it's more like the phone company interrupting a phone call to bring you a sponsored message. Or the mailman slipping advertising into your letters. There has always been an unspoken understanding that packets, like phone calls or letters, will be delivered as-is and not modified in process. > In fact, the same thing applies to Comcast and blocking any and all > ports that they deem abusive. Same thing with the phone or letter analogy. If the postmaster knew there was a bomb in your letter, he wouldn't deliver it. Those are exceptional cases and I would suggest that clear public policies about what they consider abusive behavior and what they will do about it would be appropriate. > If their business model precludes your > torrents, then find another ISP. And don't argue that you cannot; the > Internet is NOT a basic human right, nor is TV, cable, or even frozen > pizza. And yet of all those examples, Internet is by far the least regulated. Just because something is not a basic human right doesn't mean we shouldn't have standards. There is not enough competition for the market to simply sort out all these problems. Corey
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