It sure beats the internet in Canada where the isp's become your *mama* and
*daddy*. They own you, you become the hooker and they're the pimps. Want to sign
up for nexflix? Well that will be an extra 50 or 60 bucks a month extra on top of
your subscription price to nexflix a month. We use an eyedropper to dispense your
bandwidth. Oh wait we changed our mind now there's no ceiling charge on the
maximum overuse fee. Yup, you'll owe us thousands of dollasr a month just for
being in the unfortunate country of Canada. The Canadian isp's will ream your
arse *higher* than a kite.
StevieO wrote:
> All Right, Let's Be More Like Europe-They're Not Imposing Net Neutrality
> by Seton Motley
> Europe has of late become a place for We the People of the United States to
> begin in some ways to consider emulating - after decades of it being an
> economic and societal afterthought and punch line.
>
> The Barack Obama Administration spent its first two years hurtling us
> towards 1970s France - accumulating record debt to fund dubious "stimulus"
> spending and corrupt political payoffs, enacting socialized medicine,
> nationalizing large swaths of various industries and slapping the economy
> with heaping helpings of new regulations.
>
> And when President Obama headed across the Pond for the G-20 Summit, he
> demanded the Europeans engage in the same profligate spending he had - in
> other words, take his Old Europe medicine - to address the recession.
>
> This is the Administration, after all, that is the current way station for
> Vice President Joe Biden and his brilliant economic insights - "We have to
> go spend money to keep from going bankrupt."
>
> But many Europeans wisely responded with "Mr. President, we'll instead
> practice austerity, thank you very much."
>
> Translation: They've long been doing the government-laden approach, and they
> will now instead try freedom. And in many parts of New Austerity Europe,
> the recession is now just a bad memory - not a continuing crisis.
>
> Europe is now exhibiting the same good sense with regard to Internet
> policy - specifically the ridiculous notion that is Network Neutrality. It
> is passing on the government-laden approach, and instead (continuing to) try
> freedom.
>
> At the European Commission and European Parliament Summit on "The Open
> Internet and Net Neutrality in Europe," Neelie Kroes - the commissioner for
> the European Union (EU)'s digital agenda - gave a November 11th speech
> during which she announced that Europe would not be imposing a Net
> Neutrality law.
>
> Kroes seems to get that Net Neutrality is a solution running around looking
> for a problem - meaning there are very few if any (in the United States -
> ZERO) current Net Neutrality-related complaints lodged anywhere by anyone.
> And unless and until there are, Europe will leave the Internet well enough
> alone.
>
> "If we encounter significant and persistent problems, I will not be afraid
> to change the law in the future to achieve competition and choice consumers
> deserve."
>
> Kroes acknowledged that it is the Internet consumers who rule the roost -
> and not the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as alleged by the pro-Net
> Neutrality gaggle. And if an ISP were to do something their customers didn't
> like, they would let the ISP have it - just as always happens in every other
> facet of the free market. From Cecilia Kang's Washington Post piece:
>
> (Kroes) also said consumers will guide industry behavior. If a carrier were
> to block Skype, a service Kroes said she uses to call family back home,
> consumers would protest.
>
> Kroes concludes her speech with what would seem to be an apt description of
> why they are passing on Net Neutrality:
>
> "I consider that the core of the Internet should remain a robust, best
> effort Internet to which everyone has access (and) I want to leave room for
> future innovation.."
>
> "Remain a robust, best effort Internet" - which means it is a robust, best
> effort Internet NOW - WITHOUT Net Neutrality emplaced.
>
> "I want to leave room for future innovation." - innovation which Net
> Neutrality would constrict into oblivion.
>
> So we say Bravo to Ms. Kroes and the E.U. for making the rational and right
> decision to discard the absurdity that is Net Neutrality.
>
> And hearty congratulations to all of Europe - who will enjoy an Internet
> that remains free to grow, broaden and be ever increasingly the free speech,
> free market Nirvana that it is and has been - without Net Neutrality in
> place.
>
> Vive la Liberté. Lebhaft die Freiheit. Bully.
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