Friday, December 08, 2006
Censorship, the ultimate violation of Net Neutrality
I've just posted a comment on my previous post by "HandsOff" who says,
"HandsOff" goes on to say,
I wonder how "HandsOff" defines his or her way around the problem. I have a suggestion --REAL NN violations result in more telco/cableco profits. False NN violation is when it is done for ideological purposes.
C'mon "HandsOff," what's YOUR definition?
" . . . government censorship and network neutrality are completely unrelated."Oh yeah? What is Net Discrimination if not the differential delivery of Internet information based on content (or origin, destination, application, business relationship, etc.)?
"HandsOff" goes on to say,
" . . . the Chinese government can censor a neutral net just as easily and freely as a non-neutral net . . . "Sure. And Ed Whitacre can charge for "his" pipes on a neutral net too. But the instant he does it becomes non-neutral.
I wonder how "HandsOff" defines his or her way around the problem. I have a suggestion --REAL NN violations result in more telco/cableco profits. False NN violation is when it is done for ideological purposes.
C'mon "HandsOff," what's YOUR definition?
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Comments:
David, you know you are being disingenuous if you are trying to equate Internet packet discrimination with the type of censorship practiced by oppressive regimes. Discrimination occurs when one packet is given preference over another because of its origin/destination or the type of information it contains, but not the content per se. Censorship occurs when a company like Google collaborates with a country like China to block specific search results that are counter to the political and ideological ideals of that country. So while it may be convenient to your personal objectives to equate the two, the resulting argument is inherently flawed and nothing more than a scare tactic. As I said in my previous post, "If so-called net neutrality were good policy, its advocates wouldn't need to scare people into supporting it through blatant falsehoods."
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