Comments on: Net neutrality ruling strikes blow for freedom

By: HBC

HBC — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:29:24 +0000

Striking a blow for Goliath again, Jim? How in hell a hollow victory for the monolith of mediocrity could possibly represent Freedom© is an excursion into Newspeak as craven as it is unworthy of serious consideration.

It appears to take more mental effort than your average tea-partying Yahoo can summon up to comprehend the first thing about net neutrality, whereby individual communication freely prevails without constraint of corrupt court-facilitated corporate excuse-makers. Comcast violates this principle.

Just remember what happened to Goliath in the end. That is what’s in store for Comcast – and all who fail with it.

By: drewbie

drewbie — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:29:03 +0000

Why not just put meters on bandwidth like the electric companies and charge users for kbs used, instead of access?

By: Storyburn_com

Storyburn_com — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:23:17 +0000

Buy Comcast stock as this is big news for them. Plus, Verizon is stopping it’s FiOS roll out, also great news for Comcast

By: LibertyAtStake

LibertyAtStake — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:15:46 +0000

Comcast’s issue, as I understand it, was a Bit Torrent app hogging too much bandwidth. FCC has no authority to tell Comcast how to mange its bandwidth. Comcast has a profit motive to mange it reasonably. If they don’t they will lose business and someone else will buy the wires and routers. Good decision for liberty and the free market. Google and Yahoo will just have to be responsible about distributing free apps that use reasonable amounts of bandwidth. I’m sure they can pull it off.

http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
[For a light hearted take on our present peril]

By: Liberty Lover

Liberty Lover — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:35:27 +0000

Great ruling and great post! You’re right about the possible pricing options. That’s the sort of trial-and-error approach markets excel at, and top-down controls stifle.