At Wired, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has posted his take on net neutrality. He lays the problem at the feet of the large ISPs.
The argument was that the early progressives were not acting out of moral beliefs. I showed that's not true.
The Scotsman can't protect you from The Federalist's misrepresentation. It's funny that you would cite a logical fallacy in order to defend an ad hominem attack ("Progressives were never moral!")
At Wired, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has posted his take on net neutrality. He lays the problem at the feet of the large ISPs.
File this one under, "No Shit Sherlock".
A little problem with the thesis are people like Jane Adams, Fr. John Ryan and Dorothy Day. Economists like Henry George. What was it, like 1907 when Walter Rauschenbusch published "Christianity and the Social Crisis". Organizations like the YMCA and the Salvation Army came out of the Christian progressive movement.
It was called the "social gospel" and was very much moral in nature. Even going back to Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical, Rerum Novarum, you had a groundwork on purely moral grounds for a progressive movement. Leo talked about how capital and labor must to find a humane path for capitalism that respected workers and avoided the extremes of both socialism and laissez-faire conservatism. Just the fact that the Pontiff mentioned "labor" must have sent a chill through the blood of the robber barons in the gilded age.
But go ahead and hang on to your "godless progressives" meme if it helps you sleep at night. It's pretty easy to keep your nose in "The Federalist" and never know any of those things.
The internet does not qualify as "a civilization". And certainly it is possible for civilization to have commerce without the Internet, don't you think? Somehow, people managed before 1980.
I am willing to bet that at least by 1982 someone had sold a physical object to another usenet poster.
A swap meet is one thing. A job board, "for sale" signs, no problem.
Commercial uses of the Internet were prohibited until 1995 when the NSF ended its sponsorship of the backbone and turned it over to commercial services.
Hey, thanks for that, Mr AC. I didn't know about I2P.
It's what's for dinner.
No moms, please.
Carlos Mencia
Ain't he that four-star prospect whose tearing up triple-A in the Cubs farm system? I saw him play with Iowa and he's a terrific-looking second baseman who can hit for power.
I didn't know he's a comedian too.
How is it that on a story like this I'm the only one making goatse jokes?
What happened to you, Slashdot?
You forgot, "What does a man bending over and spreading his butthole look like?"
I've been burned by a goatse link too many times to click on that.
Which by the way, turns out to be what you get when you combine every image on the internet together. Weird, huh?
They should put the data center in a pyramid. Then, the servers would last forever!
I don't know about you, but I would rather have the USA, despite all of its faults (and we have many), in control of these things instead of countries like Iran or North Korea.
Are those our only choices?
Until it became the world's shopping mall, governance of the Internet was rather simple.
At this point, I'd be content to see the Internet blown up completely and something else take its place. It's been too badly corrupted to ever deliver on any of the promise it had when it first became open to the general public.
The first day commerce was conducted on the Internet was the day it started to die. What we see now is a corpse reanimated by the needs of oppressive governments, telcos and huge, mostly evil corporations. It will never get better. There's no fixing it once the money-grubbers and rent-seekers and government upskirters took control.
Snails (escargo) suffer from the same problem.
Oh man, I can eat me a mess of snails. My grandma used to make them in garlic and butter, called, "Babaluci" (pronounced, "babalooch"). You'd get a big dish of these little things and a pin to pull out the mean. I would eat them until I got dizzy.
I'm actually drooling a little bit right now thinking about my grandma's babaluci Palermo.
Also, "babalooch" is a Sicilian nickname for a really slow-moving lazy guy.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand
