Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

Fri Feb 27 17:03:35 UTC 2015


On 2015-02-27 11:45, Mike Hammett wrote:
> What about ISPs that aren't world-class dicks?
>
The REAL evil in the ISP marketplace is, of course, essentially entirely 
unremarked-upon - ASYMMETRY.  For the Internet, as such, truly to live 
up to its promise to continue to revolutionize the world through free 
exchange of ideas, information, data and so forth, Joe Average User 
*MUST* have the same pipes going UP as he does coming DOWN.  Just as an 
example, my service at home is what, 50 down/5 up?  That structure is 
less conducive to free interchange and more conducive to the 
Big-Brother™-seal-of-approval mindless consumption of whatever content 
THEY™ deem necessary and sufficient to keep the bread and circus masses 
dull and uninvolved.  Plus, the slow uplink speeds make remote backups 
dreadfully impractical for the home user.  So let's see some symmetry in 
the offerings, ISPs, ok?

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Bruce H. McIntosh                            bhm at ufl.edu
Senior Network Engineer                      http://net-services.ufl.edu
University of Florida Network Services       352-273-1066