{"id":33592,"date":"2013-12-07T14:51:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T14:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wilwheaton-maxistentialist-ars-technica\/"},"modified":"2013-12-07T14:51:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T14:51:18","slug":"wilwheaton-maxistentialist-ars-technica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wilwheaton-maxistentialist-ars-technica\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

wilwheaton<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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maxistentialist<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Ars Technica<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Newly anointed Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said this week that it would be OK for Internet service providers to charge Netflix and other companies for a faster lane to consumers.<\/p>\n

Wheeler\u2019s stance is surprising given that it appears to contradict the FCC\u2019s Open Internet Order, passed under his predecessor in 2010. That order, which sets out the country\u2019s network neutrality rules, says that fixed broadband providers may not \u201cunreasonably discriminate\u201d against any type of traffic. The order specifically calls out pay-for-play arrangements as being potential violations.<\/p>\n

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Wheeler (a former lobbyist for the cable and wireless industries) spoke positively about the order but said he wouldn\u2019t mind if Netflix has to pay for a faster lane to consumers while answering questions Monday after a policy speech at Ohio State University.<\/p>\n

“I am a firm believer in the market,” he said. \u201cI think we\u2019re also going to see a two-sided market where Netflix might say, \u2018well, I\u2019ll pay in order to make sure that you might receive, my subscriber receives, the best possible transmission of this movie.\u2019"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is horseshit. The level playing field of the internet is what makes it such a powerful place for new, disruptive ideas. I shared Humans vs. Zombies and\u00a0Cards Against Humanity online when I was flat broke, and I was able to do that because I didn\u2019t have to ask for permission or pay anything extra to make those things available. The same is true of Tumblr, Google, Facebook, YouTube, Kickstarter, and just about every other internet company that you love and use.<\/p>\n

Edit:\u00a0<\/strong>Spytap<\/a> adds,<\/p>\n

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Without any element of hyperbole, if \u201cformer lobbyist for the cable and wireless industry\u201d Tom Wheeler gets his wish, it\u2019s the end of the internet as a medium for societal and commercial transformation. There is no more efficient way to kill every single iota of progress and momentum that\u2019s built up over the past 25 years than by creating preferential lanes on the internet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It. Will. Die.<\/p>\n

And anyone willing to be so mindbogglingly shortsighted over what can be counted amongst the greatest inventions of mankind has no business wielding any sort of authority over its subsequent evolution.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Edit II:<\/strong>\u00a0pugilispretentia<\/a> writes,<\/p>\n

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I cannot imagine Netflix being faster than it is.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This isn\u2019t about Netflix paying ISPs for a\u00a0faster<\/em> connection than they already have. It\u2019s about the ISPs being able to charge Netflix to stream at the same<\/em> speed they do now, i.e. \u201cpay us or we\u2019ll slow your website down.\u201d Do you see how much harder that would make it to ever start a site like Netflix? That\u2019s what\u2019s at stake when we talk about net neutrality.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

re-reblogging this for the updates.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

wilwheaton: maxistentialist: Ars Technica: Newly anointed Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said this week that it would be OK for Internet service providers to charge Netflix and other companies for a faster lane to consumers. Wheeler\u2019s stance is surprising given that it appears to contradict the FCC\u2019s Open Internet Order, passed under his predecessor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-33592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8JO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}