[governance] [Dewayne-Net] Shutting Down The Phone System Gets Real: The Regulatory Implications of AT&T Upgrading To An All IP Network

[Norbert Bollow]

Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:

> A common carrier regulated by the FCC ends up having to carry
> everything unfiltered, and in theory this also means spam, malware
> and its related traffic, which too you can't discriminate against
> once you attain that status.  So beware of what you wish for.

I certainly wish for my capability of communicating and exchanging
files to not become subject to the whims of any third party. If sender
and recipient are in agreement that they want a data transmission to
happen, I want the network in between to be so dumb that it will
reliably transmit those datagrams. Do you really want the network to
become unreliable in some supposedly intelligent way intended to fight
spam or malware? The same intelligent networks could then of course
also be configured for blocking claimed copyright violations or facts
that a government wishes to suppress and/or for blocking all encrypted
communications.

Greetings,
Norbert

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