[governance] Internet as a commons/ public good

[Roland Perry]

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18:08:38 on Sat, 20 Apr 2013, Kerry Brown <kerry at kdbsystems.com> writes
>> I have at least one [mobile] ISP in the UK that will only let me send SMTP[1]
>> email on port 587, for example.
>>
>> Should we be concerned at my inequality when it comes to sending SMTP
>> email *at all* on port 25 (through that ISP)?
>>
>
>As long as the potential of communication is there the fact that the particular network you are connected to chooses to block some types of
>communication is a decision that the managers of the network have a right to make.

That's an interesting qualification, and one that I don't think most 
supporters of "network neutrality" would necessarily approve of.

>You can still send the email to any other endpoint on the Internet that will accept it. You just have to use a different method. This can't be
>conflated with the issue where some networks block some endpoints from communicating with other endpoints by any method. That is a human rights
>issue that isn't limited to the Internet.

So my end point is equal to all others, just as long as there's one way 
(and only one) to communicate with the outside world? Like nntp, as an 
example. [Something which several networks have seen fit to either block 
or severely throttle in recent times].
-- 
Roland Perry

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