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> On 28 Apr 2005, at 00:55, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> Who are you to decide that there is no damage to blocking residential >> customers? > > The customer makes the decision when they subscribe to a service whether > or not filtered service will meet their needs. Who are you to decide that > unfiltered service is required to meet the needs of all customers? > I never said they did. I simply said ISPs shouldn't decide this for their customers, as some do. >> Why should an ISP decide what a residential >> customer can or can't do with their internet connection. > > The service provider should be able to decide what services they wish to > offer. If a provider of any service chooses to differentiate services > based on utility and the customer is made aware of these characteristics, > how is this in anyway unfair? If your objection is that, in single > provider markets, it may not be financially viable to obtain your desire > service level i.e. the local cable provider does not offer unfiltered > connectivity and there are no other residential high bandwidth options > available then I suggest you encourage diversity in the market place. > I do encourage diversity in the market place. However, that doesn't necessarily change the current reality. > You are not entitled to unfiltered internet connectivity. If you want to > be entitled to unfiltered internet connectivity then petition your local > government to make transit a privatized utility with all the government > oversight and bureaucracy that entails. In some locations, that is becoming the case. I'm not sure that's necessarily such a bad idea. I'd rather encourage providers to do the right thing without the extra overhead, however. Owen > --- > James Baldwin > hkp://pgp.mit.edu/[email protected] > "Syntatic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon." -- If it wasn't crypto-signed, it probably didn't come from me. Attachment:
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