Netflix and you tube take up an incredible amount of network traffic, this is valid. What isn’t valid is that the proper way to solve this problem is to allow people to pay for priority access to the pipes.
In order to prove they DO take up internet traffic:
http://www.theguardian.com/...
The problem with the line of argumentation that defends thom wheeler’s positions network neutrality on these grounds is that this in no way proves the proper means to deal with this is to throttle Netflix and you tube until they pay up unless you think that the internet is not capable of expanding it’s carrying capacity.
What comcast and Verzion are in essence trying to do is avoid having to pay to build new infrastructure by paying For Lobbying instead.
the PROPER means to respond to Netflix and Youtube and the demand they create is to expand the speed of the internet.
and to that end http://www.techspot.com/...
American Internet SUCKS.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
So Comcast, Verizon, these providers are very capable of pointing at a Valid problem.
Where they get into trouble is they propose an Invalid Solution: To Gut network neutrality and allow content provides to pay for priority access. And let’s be clear, offering the same opportunity to make the internet discriminatory to Every content provider Still is not network neutrality. It must be equal, without ANY PAYMENT at ALL TO be truly neutral. anything less is doublespeak when claiming to be Neutral.
The poor have the same right to sleep under a bridge as the rich, it doesn’t mean ANYONE should have the opportunity to pay to make the internet discriminatory. EVERYONE should be DENIED that EQUALLY.
the reason and rational is that if you accept Comcast and verzion arguments you are in essence buying into the notion that these Deep pocketed institutions have no ability to pay to expand the internet capacity. What Netflix and YouTube inherently are is pressure on the internet providers to invest in fiber optic and speed the whole internet up.
Ergo the Proper Solution to Netflix and YouTube Remains to Preserve Network Neutrality and Refile Broadband Providers as Common Carrier.
There is Demand now for Higher Speed broadband- They should Supply It or Be Replaced by someone who will.
There is No good reason to Gut Network Neutrality. all these alleged Excuses and problems are merely further evidence of the Dire need for neutrality and to clamp down harder because they are pressure on the ISPs to SPEED the network up. all they are doing is offering Sophistry and bullshit excuses to avoid doing that.
Nothing more. That is the entire heart and soul of their “Apologetic” defense, and it’s merit-less. Torn out of their chest Still beating and stabbed a thousand times.
to summarize however if Netflix and Youtube are “hogging up the internet” then the solution is to Expand the Internet carrying capacity, not to allow ANYONE the right to make the internet discriminatory.
EVERYONE should be DENIED the privilege of bit discrimination equally.
anything less that EVERYONE equally being denied the privilege to make internet traffic discriminatory is by Definition not network neutrality.
Addendum:
appealing as many have to “wireless internet” to apologetically defend it as well is a Red herring fallacy because that’s an ENTIRELY separate issue that is in NO WAY relevant to wired connections. Those who understand Technology would realize why, those who don’t just have to trust me. the “critics” are not “conveniently ignoring” wireless. They’re Ignoring an issue that’s ENTIRELY IRRELEVANT to Wired connections.
See THIS moron here, with a Spurious and irrelevant argument:
http://www.forbes.com/...
It appears He doesn’t understand broadband or why Wireless might be inherently slower due to technological limitations than wired connections and thus are PROPERLY ignored as they DAMN WELL SHOULD BE.
so my answer to the ISPs and the only proper one is LEAD, follow, or GET OUT OF THE WAY.