STOP VIRGIN MEDIA!

[tyr_arcana]

STOP VIRGIN MEDIA!The new CEO of Virgin Media, Neil Berkett, has openly stated in an interview that they think net neutrality is “a load of bollocks" and claimed they're already doing deals to deliver some people's content faster than others. They would then put websites and services that don't pay Virgin in the "slow lane", meaning those sites

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[delkaetre_ni]

Hang on.
I tell you about horrible human rights abuses and you shrug.
I tell you about vicious physical attacks upon people and you tell me I'm overreacting.
I tell you about all kinds of unpleasant intrusions into our personal and private lives by government, and you're not bothered.
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But when it's the speed of the internet? Goodness, we must get up in fucking arms about it.
I told you about the Virgin net neutrality thing in a state of great annoyance and indignance ages ago and you ignored me because you said they'd never manage to do it. Gods' sakes, perhaps you should pay attention some time.

[lezek]

Ah, but what you don't understand is that the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes, and those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

[anonymous]

And what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday. Why?

[lezek]

Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially.

So you want to talk about the consumer? Let's talk about you and me. We use this internet to communicate and we aren't using it for commercial purposes. We aren't earning anything by going on that internet.

[lezek]

Now we have a separate Department of Defense internet now, did you know that?

Do you know why?

Because they have to have theirs delivered immediately. They can't afford getting delayed by other people.

Now I think these people are arguing whether they should be able to dump all that stuff on the internet ought to consider if they should develop a system themselves.