I'm surprised no one has posted a misguided concern about privacy yet.
I feel like if everything you already say is being tracked (behavioral advertising, clickstream sales) and the NSA is gobbling all traffic up directly through companies like AT&T anyway -- somebody worried about tweet storage violating privacy might be missing the bigger picture. :)
Think about it. In the future the attention span of people will be so short as being unmeasurable by our current technology. Those tweets will seem like serious literature by then.
Have you ever seen the fantastic Ken Burns documentary about the Civil War he did for PBS? It used a lot of letters from average people writing about their average lives. But yet when put in context of the war, the letters were riveting.
Interesting point, yes...the letters were astounding. People really took their time to write then...wonder if 140 characters of LOL, RT, WTF, etc. will have quite the same charm? :)
sort of a very long lead from child pornography to copyright filters. is the masnick engaging in his own version of scare mongering?
I'm confused. Child porn and extremism have repeatedly been used as justifications by those looking to push copyright filters around the globe. There is scare mongering afoot, but it's not "the masnick" doing it (who didn't write this post anyway).
First, it is simply not true that the "agency is populated exclusively with lawyers, politicians and revolving-door lobbyists."
Of course the agency employs engineers -- and many of them have consistently complained that politics -- not science -- dictate agency direction. I was referring to Commissioners, and should have been more clear.
Agency policy is driven by outcome driven politicos. The politicos come into the agency - as Martin did - with outcomes predetermined by who supported them during the election. Martin favored his patron saint - AT&T - and waged war against the cablecos. And as can be seen in the recent Comcast v FCC decision, it did not matter to Martin what the law was - it only mattered what his political agenda was. The fact that there was bad data was irrelevant because data was irrelevant.
Semantics I think, but sure. Politics drives bad policy, obviously. But there are countless instances of farmed think tank science being used to prop up a generation of telco deregulation efforts.
The only thing that was relevant was the political agenda of the politicos. So it wasnt that the policy was driven by bad data - it was driven by political agenda.
Technically it was all driven by AT&T lobbyists -- which extends above and beyond politics, regardless of party. I think we agree more than disagree.
typical government plan that will measure information and take a couple of years to gather by which time it will already be out of date. think about your connection speed 2 or 3 years ago, and think of a broadband plan made today and implemented 2 years from now based on it. by the time they use it they are 5 years out of date. fcc proves once again it isnt the agency for the job.
Perhaps in some markets, though it's not like some of these rural telcos are breaking land speed records in getting their networks upgraded. Many of them see no competition, so they can get away with nursing last-generation DSL for the next ten years.
Cable might be a different story -- given DOCSIS 3.0 upgrades are relatively easy an inexpensive to deploy -- and offer some fairly big bumps (like up to 50-100 Mbps downstream).
Re: Didn't we pay for upgrading the Internet already?
In reality Americans have paid for upgrades many, many times over if you look back historically. Phone companies have been given billions in subsidies and tax breaks for promising to upgrade (in some cases to even last mile fiber) -- only to have the regulators buckle and wimp out when enforcement came around.
There's plenty of money for ISPs to make by collaborating with Google, and some are just starting to figure this out -- but these older phone companies generally move very slowly...right now they're still busy crying because they think this ad money belongs to them because it travels over their network (Verizon has even been busy lobbying to push Uncle Sam's investigation into the AdMob deal)....
The thing is, BPL still gets used more often than you think. When that Minneapolis bridge collapsed and local towers were too jammed to function, who do you think coordinated emergency responses and helped people stay connected?
There was also a recent Windstream 911 outage in Nebraska where hams came through as the only reliable emergency communications system.
Sure, that says a lot about the quality of our nation's emergency response networks, but the reality is that ham is still very much in play.
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Cable might be a different story -- given DOCSIS 3.0 upgrades are relatively easy an inexpensive to deploy -- and offer some fairly big bumps (like up to 50-100 Mbps downstream).
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There was also a recent Windstream 911 outage in Nebraska where hams came through as the only reliable emergency communications system.
Sure, that says a lot about the quality of our nation's emergency response networks, but the reality is that ham is still very much in play.
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