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"Is a nation really free if it doesn't have a free internet?"
Forrest Caricofe
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WHAT'S ON MY MIND TODAY
**I don't like to copy and paste, but I believe I have a good reason for it today in
doing it. I like saying things in my own words, but for most of the following
articles, I've copied and pasted. I do have a collection of 10 TWEETS and
COMMENTS and 10 QUOTES, THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS much of which I
say in my own words and will be published along with WHAT'S ON MY MIND
TODAY from above later this morning.
"Save the internet!"
Ryan Cooper
"The Trump administration has a brand-new corporate giveaway: the internet!
President Trump's chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai,
announced last week that his agency was going to repeal the Obama-era rules on
"net neutrality," which govern the basic structure of the internet. It's a horrible
idea. But Americans need to start thinking about what to do in the future, after
Trump is gone. We can restore this rule, sure — but we can also go even farther.
And we should. For starters, let's levy even stronger regulations and market
controls to make the internet much, much better than it currently is.
So what is net neutrality? The basic idea is that telecommunications providers
have to treat all data equally. In keeping with the egalitarian philosophy of the
World Wide Web, the point is to make the internet an open platform where
people can communicate freely, and businesses compete on quality and price —
not by attempting to force consumers one way or another with their market
power.
Repealing net neutrality would make it possible to provide tiered service —
where the cheapest internet package would buy you access to, say, Netflix,
Google, and Facebook and a few other big-time services, but getting the full
internet would cost more. Independent websites would likely flood onto new
sub-websites hosted by the Facebooks of the world, where they'd have access to
a bigger audience but would also be subject to certain exploitation at the hands
of the platforms.
Additionally, given the fact that telecoms also own large content providers
(Verizon owns Oath, Comcast owns NBC, and AT&T is attempting to buy Time
Warner), it's also a guaranteed route for those companies to corral their
customers into watching content provided by the same company. In a future
without net neutrality, instead of being able to watch whatever is being produced
by anyone, you'll either just have to submit to whatever the local monopoly is
willing to provide, or pay through the nose for a universal service (if they'll even
deign to provide that). So much for free-market competition!
However, net neutrality is not that strong of a regulation. Indeed, for all the
well-deserved ruckus over this regulatory rollback, net neutrality is really pretty
mild. It doesn't interfere with monopolist control over whole regions, or ensure a
fair playing field for municipal broadband, or stop the platform monopolies from
effectively privatizing the entire World Wide Web, or stop vertical integration of
telecoms with content producers.
So here's a sketch of what can be done to improve things, after we bring back net
neutrality.
First, ban vertical integration. As my colleague Jeff Spross argues, the Trump
Department of Justice lawsuit against the proposed AT&T merger, while probably
driven by Trump's bizarre anti-CNN animus, actually makes a lot of sense and
should be supported. Vertical integration of communication and content is
unjustifiable, highly prone to abuse, and should be banned permanently.
Second, bring in a new rule: local loop unbundling. This regulation — which is the
standard in most places outside the United States — mandates that companies
have to give their competitors access to the wires that hook up each individual
connection to the local network trunk. That way you can have competition
without start-up competitors having to build colossally expensive parallel
networks to millions of homes — which realistically they aren't going to do.
(Such a regulation was actually part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, but
the Supreme Court held that it didn't apply to cable internet, and so that part of
the law is mostly a dead letter.) Studies demonstrate that other countries with
local loop unbundling have cheaper and faster internet — indeed, with reasonably
vigorous competition, net neutrality would be substantially less necessary.
Third, break up the big telecoms. Now, some level of local dominance is probably
inevitable, because big internet pipes (like any major communication
infrastructure), tends toward a natural monopoly. But at least we can keep
companies from monopolizing whole multi-state regions — and with local loop
unbundling, there will still be competition. Meanwhile, we can protect public
options for the internet, in case cities or states want to set up their own internet
service — forbidding stuff like the big telecoms running to their paid-up stooges
in the North Carolina state legislature to protect themselves from competitive
municipal broadband.
Fourth, break up and regulate the platform monopolies. For starters, Google
should be forced to divest DoubleClick and YouTube, and placed under common
carriage rules to stop it from abusing its search monopoly; Facebook should be
forced to divest Instagram and WhatsApp, and its Facebook Messenger placed
under interoperability rules so that it will work with other chat programs.
With a bit of reform and sustained attention, we can make American internet at
least as cheap, fast, and reliable as it is in Europe or South Korea. With a bit of
spending, we could wire up even the most remote rural communities as well. We
just have to give it the old college try."
http://theweek.com/articles/739142/save-internet.
Ryan Cooper is doing a little wishful thinking here when he says that Google
should "divest itself of DoubleClick and YouTube" and that Mark Z's "Facebook
should be forced to divest Instagram and WhatsApp, and its Facebook Messenger
placed under interoperability rules so that it will work with other chat programs."
It's not going to happen.
What is the internet: "The Internet is the global system of interconnected
computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite to link devices
worldwide." Wikipedia.
Who invented the internet?
"Dec 18, 2013 - ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983, and from there
researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the
modern Internet. The online world then took on a more recognizable form in
1990, when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web."
BY EVAN ANDREWS. www.history.com/news/ask-history/who-invented-the-
internet.
I know some of you thought that Al Gore invented the internet, but he didn't.
He did receive the Nobel Prize for making the world aware of Global Warming
and he was also responsible for that "Hanging Chad" event in Florida in the 2000
presidential election in which President George Bush was elected.
I voted for and I like President Trump, but I don't like what he is apart of now,
"The Trump administration has a brand-new corporate giveaway: the internet!
President Trump's chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai,
announced last week that his agency was going to repeal the Obama-era rules on
"net neutrality," which govern the basic structure of the internet."
What can you and I do? Contact our representatives and congressmen in
Congress and complain loudly through a telephone conversation, email or an old
fashioned letter.
Bottom line. The United States is a nation of free people and we should have the
right to a free internet. It's related, I believe, to" The First Amendment
(Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents Congress from making
any law respecting an establishment of religion, prohibiting the free exercise of
religion, or abridging the freedom of speech." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.
Freedom of speech underlined.
Copyright ©2017 forrestcaricofe.com All Rights Reserved
"Is a nation really free if it doesn't have a free internet?"
Forrest Caricofe
Google search: bout 61,000,000 results (1.06 seconds).
No results found for "Is a nation really free if it doesn't have a free internet?"
Wayne County, Ohio Courthouse.
WHAT'S ON MY MIND TODAY
**I don't like to copy and paste, but I believe I have a good reason for it today in
doing it. I like saying things in my own words, but for most of the following
articles, I've copied and pasted. I do have a collection of 10 TWEETS and
COMMENTS and 10 QUOTES, THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS much of which I
say in my own words and will be published along with WHAT'S ON MY MIND
TODAY from above later this morning.
"Save the internet!"
Ryan Cooper
"The Trump administration has a brand-new corporate giveaway: the internet!
President Trump's chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai,
announced last week that his agency was going to repeal the Obama-era rules on
"net neutrality," which govern the basic structure of the internet. It's a horrible
idea. But Americans need to start thinking about what to do in the future, after
Trump is gone. We can restore this rule, sure — but we can also go even farther.
And we should. For starters, let's levy even stronger regulations and market
controls to make the internet much, much better than it currently is.
So what is net neutrality? The basic idea is that telecommunications providers
have to treat all data equally. In keeping with the egalitarian philosophy of the
World Wide Web, the point is to make the internet an open platform where
people can communicate freely, and businesses compete on quality and price —
not by attempting to force consumers one way or another with their market
power.
Repealing net neutrality would make it possible to provide tiered service —
where the cheapest internet package would buy you access to, say, Netflix,
Google, and Facebook and a few other big-time services, but getting the full
internet would cost more. Independent websites would likely flood onto new
sub-websites hosted by the Facebooks of the world, where they'd have access to
a bigger audience but would also be subject to certain exploitation at the hands
of the platforms.
Additionally, given the fact that telecoms also own large content providers
(Verizon owns Oath, Comcast owns NBC, and AT&T is attempting to buy Time
Warner), it's also a guaranteed route for those companies to corral their
customers into watching content provided by the same company. In a future
without net neutrality, instead of being able to watch whatever is being produced
by anyone, you'll either just have to submit to whatever the local monopoly is
willing to provide, or pay through the nose for a universal service (if they'll even
deign to provide that). So much for free-market competition!
However, net neutrality is not that strong of a regulation. Indeed, for all the
well-deserved ruckus over this regulatory rollback, net neutrality is really pretty
mild. It doesn't interfere with monopolist control over whole regions, or ensure a
fair playing field for municipal broadband, or stop the platform monopolies from
effectively privatizing the entire World Wide Web, or stop vertical integration of
telecoms with content producers.
So here's a sketch of what can be done to improve things, after we bring back net
neutrality.
First, ban vertical integration. As my colleague Jeff Spross argues, the Trump
Department of Justice lawsuit against the proposed AT&T merger, while probably
driven by Trump's bizarre anti-CNN animus, actually makes a lot of sense and
should be supported. Vertical integration of communication and content is
unjustifiable, highly prone to abuse, and should be banned permanently.
Second, bring in a new rule: local loop unbundling. This regulation — which is the
standard in most places outside the United States — mandates that companies
have to give their competitors access to the wires that hook up each individual
connection to the local network trunk. That way you can have competition
without start-up competitors having to build colossally expensive parallel
networks to millions of homes — which realistically they aren't going to do.
(Such a regulation was actually part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, but
the Supreme Court held that it didn't apply to cable internet, and so that part of
the law is mostly a dead letter.) Studies demonstrate that other countries with
local loop unbundling have cheaper and faster internet — indeed, with reasonably
vigorous competition, net neutrality would be substantially less necessary.
Third, break up the big telecoms. Now, some level of local dominance is probably
inevitable, because big internet pipes (like any major communication
infrastructure), tends toward a natural monopoly. But at least we can keep
companies from monopolizing whole multi-state regions — and with local loop
unbundling, there will still be competition. Meanwhile, we can protect public
options for the internet, in case cities or states want to set up their own internet
service — forbidding stuff like the big telecoms running to their paid-up stooges
in the North Carolina state legislature to protect themselves from competitive
municipal broadband.
Fourth, break up and regulate the platform monopolies. For starters, Google
should be forced to divest DoubleClick and YouTube, and placed under common
carriage rules to stop it from abusing its search monopoly; Facebook should be
forced to divest Instagram and WhatsApp, and its Facebook Messenger placed
under interoperability rules so that it will work with other chat programs.
With a bit of reform and sustained attention, we can make American internet at
least as cheap, fast, and reliable as it is in Europe or South Korea. With a bit of
spending, we could wire up even the most remote rural communities as well. We
just have to give it the old college try."
http://theweek.com/articles/739142/save-internet.
Ryan Cooper is doing a little wishful thinking here when he says that Google
should "divest itself of DoubleClick and YouTube" and that Mark Z's "Facebook
should be forced to divest Instagram and WhatsApp, and its Facebook Messenger
placed under interoperability rules so that it will work with other chat programs."
It's not going to happen.
What is the internet: "The Internet is the global system of interconnected
computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite to link devices
worldwide." Wikipedia.
Who invented the internet?
"Dec 18, 2013 - ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983, and from there
researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the
modern Internet. The online world then took on a more recognizable form in
1990, when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web."
BY EVAN ANDREWS. www.history.com/news/ask-history/who-invented-the-
internet.
I know some of you thought that Al Gore invented the internet, but he didn't.
He did receive the Nobel Prize for making the world aware of Global Warming
and he was also responsible for that "Hanging Chad" event in Florida in the 2000
presidential election in which President George Bush was elected.
I voted for and I like President Trump, but I don't like what he is apart of now,
"The Trump administration has a brand-new corporate giveaway: the internet!
President Trump's chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai,
announced last week that his agency was going to repeal the Obama-era rules on
"net neutrality," which govern the basic structure of the internet."
What can you and I do? Contact our representatives and congressmen in
Congress and complain loudly through a telephone conversation, email or an old
fashioned letter.
Bottom line. The United States is a nation of free people and we should have the
right to a free internet. It's related, I believe, to" The First Amendment
(Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents Congress from making
any law respecting an establishment of religion, prohibiting the free exercise of
religion, or abridging the freedom of speech." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.
Freedom of speech underlined.
Copyright ©2017 forrestcaricofe.com All Rights Reserved
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