Dems wanted to send a message that they're in favor of free cable. It creates enormous privacy problems for every American who uses the Internet but fuck it, this is an election year.
Man, I'm glad that happened. Without this totally significant action by the Senate's Democrats, independents, and weak Republicans, the Internet was going to cease to exist on June 11th (or 12th or something.)
So here's the deal in a nutshell. I maintain that every post written by Karl Bode contains at least one sentence that's a total lie. So I created the Karl Bode Drinking Game to celebrate this fact. When reading a Karl Bode post, you take a drink every time you you find a lie.
This sport was inspired by Bode's claim that Comcast speed upgrades are only available to customers who buy bundles. This claim is easily disproved by checking the Xfinity web site for plans available in Houston. Other bloggers who, like Bode, are fanatic in their support for a highly regulated ISP business have not made the claim that Bode has made about Comcast; Jon Brodkin, for example.
In this post, Bode claims that Tom Wheeler's Title II order has "the bipartisan support of a huge majority of Americans (not to mention many of the people that built the damn internet)."
Of course, the vast majority of Americans have no opinion about the Title II Internet service classification or any idea what it means. Polling indicates that no more than 28% of voters support rolling back RIFO in favor of Title II. And half of them believe Title II applies to the social media and advertising interests that fund this site.
From a poll by AAN:
Almost half of voters across the country, forty-six percent (46%) indicate that they believe that the rules of net neutrality apply to both internet service providers and internet companies alike. Only two in ten voters, twenty-one percent (21%) are aware that net neutrality rules only apply to internet service providers. Among those who say they are familiar with net neutrality, sixty percent (60%) believe the rules apply to all companies.
There's another funny little thing about the proposed CRA: it will only have a legal effect on the enhanced transparency rule included in RIFO. The Title I reclassifiation can't be reversed by a CRA resolution.
If you got your news from reliable sources rather than a troll blog funded by Internet-based companies and following Bode's Law you might know these things. But you don't because you've been scammed.
I figure a comment that consists entirely of verbatim replays of Karl's delusions was effectively written by Karl. This is true even if a non-Karl sock puppet is in the middle.
Karl's posts are amusing because they consist entirely of gossip - he said this, they said that, this other person said this other thing - so they're all dirt and no tech.
Did this - "The speed at which web sites load has nothing to do with ISPs as long as customers are getting 15 Mbps download speed or more" - upset you?
This a stupid comment, and I'd like to tell you why. The speed at which web sites load has nothing to do with ISPs as long as customers are getting 15 Mbps download speed or more. You can check the FCC's Measuring Broadband America reports from 2010 to the present to verify this. Over this period, broadband speeds have increased 35% per year while web page load times have been stagnant. In 2016, web pages actually loaded more slowly than they did in 2015.
Why do you believe ISPs are throttling web pages? Web pages are bloated with ads and impaired by the slow-start that degrades the performance of each new TCP connection. And the average web page opens dozens of TCP connections.
It didn't take long to find the first lie in this post; read the second sentence: "According to an FCC announcement, (pdf) the FCC's comically-misleading-named "Restoring Internet Freedom" order will formally take effect on June 11, eliminating rules that have the bipartisan support of a huge majority of Americans (not to mention many of the people that built the damn internet)."
Of course, the vast majority of Americans have no idea what Title II is, let alone which portions were foreborne and which were embellished in the Obama Title II Internet regulation.
How can you claim people support a totally mysterious concept? Bode can.
Third sentence continues the trend, claiming Pai's claims about the perils of Title II are "routinely-debunked falsehoods" when they're all supported by fact and analysis? They've certainly been disputed by partisans of Bode's ilk, but that's a far stretch from "routinely debunked."
The RIFO framework promotes innovation in real-time service delivery, something that makes Bode's head hurt, so he simply pretends "this claim is laughable" without saying why.
Karl Bode is the King of Fake News and Techdirt is his castle.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is all about net neutrality lawsuits. Wherever he finds misbehavior, he gives punishment. The's the hero of all friends of the freeish and kinda open sometimes Innernetz.
On the post: Senate Approves First Step In Uphill Effort To Restore Net Neutrality
Re: Re: Senate saves the Internet!
On the post: Senate Approves First Step In Uphill Effort To Restore Net Neutrality
Re: WHY?
On the post: Senate Approves First Step In Uphill Effort To Restore Net Neutrality
Senate saves the Internet!
Now we don't have to worry. That was close, dude.
On the post: T-Mobile Hires Ex-FCC Commissioner To Claim Its Competition-Killing Merger Will Be Really Great For...Farmers
Global history has shown repeatedly...
On the post: FCC Boss Celebrates As Net Neutrality Gets An End Date: June 11
Re: Re: Bode's Law
On the post: FCC Boss Celebrates As Net Neutrality Gets An End Date: June 11
Bode's Law
So here's the deal in a nutshell. I maintain that every post written by Karl Bode contains at least one sentence that's a total lie. So I created the Karl Bode Drinking Game to celebrate this fact. When reading a Karl Bode post, you take a drink every time you you find a lie.
This sport was inspired by Bode's claim that Comcast speed upgrades are only available to customers who buy bundles. This claim is easily disproved by checking the Xfinity web site for plans available in Houston. Other bloggers who, like Bode, are fanatic in their support for a highly regulated ISP business have not made the claim that Bode has made about Comcast; Jon Brodkin, for example.
In this post, Bode claims that Tom Wheeler's Title II order has "the bipartisan support of a huge majority of Americans (not to mention many of the people that built the damn internet)."
Of course, the vast majority of Americans have no opinion about the Title II Internet service classification or any idea what it means. Polling indicates that no more than 28% of voters support rolling back RIFO in favor of Title II. And half of them believe Title II applies to the social media and advertising interests that fund this site.
From a poll by AAN:
Almost half of voters across the country, forty-six percent (46%) indicate that they believe that the rules of net neutrality apply to both internet service providers and internet companies alike. Only two in ten voters, twenty-one percent (21%) are aware that net neutrality rules only apply to internet service providers. Among those who say they are familiar with net neutrality, sixty percent (60%) believe the rules apply to all companies.
There's another funny little thing about the proposed CRA: it will only have a legal effect on the enhanced transparency rule included in RIFO. The Title I reclassifiation can't be reversed by a CRA resolution.
If you got your news from reliable sources rather than a troll blog funded by Internet-based companies and following Bode's Law you might know these things. But you don't because you've been scammed.
On the post: FCC Boss Celebrates As Net Neutrality Gets An End Date: June 11
Re: Re: Re: Karl Bode's comments
*sycophant: a servile** self-seeking flatterer
**servile: of or befitting a slave or a menial position
On the post: FCC Boss Celebrates As Net Neutrality Gets An End Date: June 11
Re: Karls, karls everywhere...
Karl's posts are amusing because they consist entirely of gossip - he said this, they said that, this other person said this other thing - so they're all dirt and no tech.
I feel sad for him.
On the post: AT&T Cans Exec Over Cohen Payment Kerfuffle, Pretends This Kind Of Influence Peddling Isn't Perfectly Routine
Astonishly clueless
Wow, even by TD standards this is an exceptionally clueless article.
On the post: FCC Boss Celebrates As Net Neutrality Gets An End Date: June 11
Re: Re: Karl Bode's comments
On the post: FCC Boss Celebrates As Net Neutrality Gets An End Date: June 11
Karl Bode's comments
On the post: AT&T Stumbles As It Tries To Explain Why It Paid $200K To Cohen's Shady Shell Company
Re: Re: Nothing to worry about
That's not very much fun.
I wish Schneiderman all the best, of course.
On the post: FCC Boss Celebrates As Net Neutrality Gets An End Date: June 11
Re: Re: Re:
On the post: FCC Boss Celebrates As Net Neutrality Gets An End Date: June 11
Re: The American Dream
On the post: FCC Boss Celebrates As Net Neutrality Gets An End Date: June 11
Re: Re: Re:
On the post: FCC Boss Celebrates As Net Neutrality Gets An End Date: June 11
Re: Re: Re:
On the post: FCC Boss Celebrates As Net Neutrality Gets An End Date: June 11
Re:
Why do you believe ISPs are throttling web pages? Web pages are bloated with ads and impaired by the slow-start that degrades the performance of each new TCP connection. And the average web page opens dozens of TCP connections.
Maybe think before you complain? It's a thought.
On the post: FCC Boss Celebrates As Net Neutrality Gets An End Date: June 11
Re:
On the post: FCC Boss Celebrates As Net Neutrality Gets An End Date: June 11
The Karl Bode Drinking Game
Of course, the vast majority of Americans have no idea what Title II is, let alone which portions were foreborne and which were embellished in the Obama Title II Internet regulation.
How can you claim people support a totally mysterious concept? Bode can.
Third sentence continues the trend, claiming Pai's claims about the perils of Title II are "routinely-debunked falsehoods" when they're all supported by fact and analysis? They've certainly been disputed by partisans of Bode's ilk, but that's a far stretch from "routinely debunked."
The RIFO framework promotes innovation in real-time service delivery, something that makes Bode's head hurt, so he simply pretends "this claim is laughable" without saying why.
Karl Bode is the King of Fake News and Techdirt is his castle.
On the post: AT&T Stumbles As It Tries To Explain Why It Paid $200K To Cohen's Shady Shell Company
Nothing to worry about
Next >>