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

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Oh lord.  Ok try it this way.  I drive on the right side of the road in India.  So now when I next fly to san francisco and pick up a car at the airport hertz, I will proceed to exert my inalienable human right to continue driving on the right side of the road.

Also, could we please have this argument again, this time without the use of a slippery slope logical fallacy.

--srs (iPad)

On 19-Nov-2012, at 3:46, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> 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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