It's the same with Apple's rejection of Theora... It's not about providing the best experience for users.
Or Mozilla's rejection of H.264, it's not providing the best experience for users.
DSL providers should just say to their customers, we'll just drop your price by $X a month if you decline POP --- that way we save on machines, sysadmins, and software licensing fees, and we get to say we're 20% cheaper than the competition
... and you'll just go off and use Hotmail, which is what you were going to do anyway!
Maybe they'd use gmail instead of hotmail today, but the same principal applies.
The cable company had also argued that the FCC lacks authority to mandate Net neutrality because it deregulated broadband. The FCC now defines broadband as a lightly regulated information service. That means it is not subject to the obligations traditional telecommunications services have to share their networks with competitors and treat all traffic equally.
The best part is that the decision may cause "the agency [to] simply reclassify broadband as a more heavily regulated telecommuniciations service." In that respect, Comcast has dug its own grave, as well as those of several others, Time Warner, Cablevision, Verizon to name a few.
This doesn't deny corporations from running ads, they just have to do it on their own, and out in the open where everyone can see who they are telling people to vote for. They have to buy their own ads to tell people to vote for Harry Reid or Mitch McConnell.
I don't think you are familiar with the case. What you describe above and said should be allowed is exactly what Citizens United did. They released a feature length film called "Hillary: The Movie" about Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Federal Election Commission said that you can't spend that much money on a movie like that so close to the election, so they took them to court.
It's the people in the van helping the wounded that are the crime.
For trying to save the life of an innocent photographer? How the hell were they to know this would get them killed? Does the military distribute leaflets telling them that if they try to save the wounded they will be fired upon?
You never shoot wounded, ever, ever, ever.
Maybe on paper, but the pilot was a little trigger happy. It was nerve racking to hear him say, "Come on, buddy. All you gotta do is pick up a wepon." just so he could fire on an unarmed journalist.
Love makes the world go 'round, with a little help from intrinsic angular momentum.