Some things that are so important that you need to stop, dear reader, and take the time to understand. Internet neutrality is one of these things.
Net Neutrality: Why you should care
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Net Neutrality: Why you should care
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Posted 4 months ago #
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You make an interesting point. Voice is already heavily prioritised, and bittorrent is likely de-prioritised on most networks.
My personal opinion: as long as traffic type prioritisation is completely up front and transparent, and not filtered by destination, then it’s not entirely evil. You still have the option of choosing a neutral ISP.
But what about backbone providers? If I choose an ISP that does not prioritise anything, my traffic still gets shaped by those providers. It’s a proverbial can-o-worms.
Posted 4 months ago # -
JC
InactivePosted by unregistered user: JC@Ben
At the end of the day, it comes down to what kind of traffic you want. If sites like youtube which use UDP and don’t give a care as to the order of packets arriving can survive in a purely best-effort environment – they will.Voice and live video will require more nimble and latency-nazi style flows, and we *will* end up paying more for it, it’s the nature of economics. The sad fact is that where money is to be made, even in the open and free wilds of the internet, it will be made.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the future of the net will be a bit of a debacle, it’s not an easy thing to explain and switched on companies will be taking advantage of that fact.
Blergh, I have to get my head away from work and go see Evil play. Woooh!
Posted 4 months ago # -
Ethan
InactivePosted by unregistered user: EthanIs anyone else rather disturbed by this as I am?
Surely freedom of speech is equitable to freedom of what websites you look at?
I have had a few discussions with friends about Orcon’s O-Zone, which without paying does give obvious priority to certain sites, is that a breach of net neutrality? How does everyone else feel about this?
I do not look forward to a future where my ISP controls where I browse in the same way as a school/university does! (wait, is that a breach too?
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