kerpow

Mike Wuerthele said:

kerpow said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

kerpow said:

Good. We don't need the government involved in managing the Internet. Everyone worried about this wrecking the Internet are seeing imaginary monsters in the dark. 

Apple itself disagrees with you. So does every other business that serves its content on the internet.

Here's a scenario for you. News Channel X, that panders to blind, left-handed dentists, covers AT&T favoritism for one-eyed phlebotomists. AT&T doesn't like it.

So, it decides to strangle the bandwidth for News Channel X, just because it can. No more video from News Channel X if you're an AT&T customer, because there just aren't enough bits available. So much for getting the news out equitably.

Or, say, AT&T doesn't want Skype on the iPhone -- so it blocks it. Wait -- this actually happened with the iPhone. For two years.

Or, Verizon doesn't want a contactless payment service on phones it provides access too, so it blocks them -- this happened too.

I think its going to be fine and look forward to watching the companies who try the things you've described fail.

Why would they? There's nothing to stop them.