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People should be free to choose what is best for themselves as long as they do not infringe on the rights of others to do the same. I created this blog to discuss issues I have with big government, liberal media,and to talk about my support for capitalism and the Iraq War.
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Hey, the internet is the root of all evils.
Ironically, this is just what the giant corporations you want us to trust so much want to do here in the US.
this is getting repetitive but
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT
We should write a script that auotmaticaly responds to Darwin's first comment on a post with
"WTF!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!"
I dont want anyone to trust corporations. I favor coporations for the precise reason that I DONT HAVE TO TRUST THEM.
Government? We have to trust them. Coroporations? We dont have to trust them. Untrustworthy corporations are dealt with by governments, which, did i mention, we have to trust? If a government is untrustworty then so are it's corporations, but it turns out the citizens have greater problems then an untrustworthy McDonalds when the government cant be trusted.
To summarize, nobody has to trust corporations. All citizens must trust government. Corporations are only untrustworthy once a government has proven untrustworthy.
Diatribe- I was talking about the anti- net neutrality bills corporations are pushign through at the moment.
Sophist- That's a perfectly reasonable position. However I very strongly recall us having several conversation in which you said you trust corporations and not governments. Let me know if you don't remember that ever happening or if you think I misunderstood you. But this sure sounds like a reversal.
From what I understand about net neutrality - it is not like what the Iranian goverment is doing. They are mandating that internet providers do not offer speeds of anything faster than 128kb. Nothing in net neutrality talks about this. Iranian goverment appears to me trying to limit the ability for individuals to get news faster - and watch or listen to streaming video or audio.
One should note having to trust an entity is not the same as choosing to trust an entity.
Provided the governmet is trustworthy, one can be choose to trust corporation. Such choice is a luxury one cant afford when dealing with the government.
Therefore, on the whole, compaines are more trustworthy primarily because one has a choice to trust them.
Well, the point of the Net Neutrality legislation was that ISP's want to be able to provide slower access to content that they don't care about getting to you quickly. Obviously I was being Hyberbolic, but the similarrities are still very real- you'll want to sa ythat free market forces will force teh ISP's to give us fast access to the things we want, but I'm much more pessimistic, and expect that the effect will be that ISP's will start choosing wahat content we have easy access to, much as the government is doing in this case.
Sophist- I'm not sure I understand your semantics. Are you simply saying that you prefer corporations because you get to decide whether or not to trust them, or are you actually saying that they're more trustworthy, because if they weren't, people wouldstop trusting them and they'd go out of business? I agree in a general sense with the first interpretation, but not the second, so please clarify what you actually meant for me.
Yeah so I like I said - It is not the same. Your pessimism about what you believe EVIL corporations are going to do one day does not count.
lol, you're totally right, they're spending millions of dollars on lobbying efforst and advertising campaigns to gain the power to do this because they're planningto NEVER DO IT.
Because they're shrewd businessmen and such.
I am saying they are not planning the same thing as what Iran has done. You believe it might be but there has been no talk of that. What your talking about is a version of what Iran has done - but not the same.
Depends what you mean.
Do US ISP's want to set all bandwidth limits at 128kb for the whole country? No.
Do US ISP's want to use artificial bandwidth limitations to make some types of content artificially difficult to access? Yes.
Does Iran want to use artificial bandwidth limitations to make some types of content artificially difficult to access? Yes.
Sounds right to me.
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