Well Necratoid, the name calling did start when you referred to me as deluded and inevitably escalated from there. Your trying to gain any sort of moral high ground on the issue is therefore rather limited. Change the batteries. Breathe in. Breathe out. You might also check your posts on Iran in which you caution someone to speak from orifices located about their neck; Im afraid that your moral high ground is just slightly below the proverbial snakes ass in a wagon rut.
(It is also not nice to mention the men in the white coats too loudly; especially when you have recently let loose such zingers as communists controlling the environmental movement, the French Revolution being caused by the failure to adopt the potato and the UN supporting bestiality. The men in the white coats love it when people talk like that, it makes their jobs so much easier.)
For your information I do not possess a totalitarian internet business plan, mine is more egalitarian (Its a joke son.. get it.) What I also have is observation of existing phenomenon. When you have a credit card company writing legislation about credit-card debt, they are naturally going to proceed in a certain direction. Likewise if you are a drug company writing legislation on a drug plan, it is going to be favorable to your own interest. If you ask a chicken how it wants to be stuffed, it is going to go on about grubs, worms and corn, not Stovetop instant stuffing; or my favorite, an injected Cajun spice and a can of root beer. This is not a grass roots legislation; it is being bought and paid for by the broadband providers for their benefit.
You are indeed correct that the bill is in its early stages. The stages where action can be taken against it. As opposed to when it stumbles past the Presidents desk. Tell me, do you wait until the bumper is at your knees before you get out of the way of the onrushing car?
Is it a threat? To take your rather nerd-centric analogy full circle, this is indeed a first level character being advertised as a epic warlord, but it is a first level character that is being twinked by some very rich and very influential high level characters. So there is a very real reason to be concerned. It was not misrepresented to you; you just didnt read it through the first time; or consider the implications.
The requirement of child pornography is interesting; not for what it says, but for what it implies. It forces companies not to allow child porn on the internet pipes they provide. What does that mean? It means that all traffic flowing has to be monitored; in order to ensure that no child porn is present. That includes all e-mail message, all forum traffic, all browsing, all downloads. In other words, your right to privacy is being bent over a barrel and taken roughly without even the common courtesy of a reach-around. As I have previously noted once you control the traffic, you are responsible for the content.
What is even worse is that this is not going to make that big a difference in stopping child pornography. In order to bust someone you have to be able put their backside in the chair in front of the computer at the time of the incident. There are better ways; that do not infringe on the privacy of everyone on the internet.
Now your last point about making the average download of 1mb every 5 seconds. There is a caveat to that. The content must be capable of being downloaded at that speed. If the provider can prove that you can get the speed they contracted for (lets say from their own supported music download service); then their obligation in regard to your speed is met; even if you cannot get that speed from the service you wish to use.
(It is also not nice to mention the men in the white coats too loudly; especially when you have recently let loose such zingers as communists controlling the environmental movement, the French Revolution being caused by the failure to adopt the potato and the UN supporting bestiality. The men in the white coats love it when people talk like that, it makes their jobs so much easier.)
For your information I do not possess a totalitarian internet business plan, mine is more egalitarian (Its a joke son.. get it.) What I also have is observation of existing phenomenon. When you have a credit card company writing legislation about credit-card debt, they are naturally going to proceed in a certain direction. Likewise if you are a drug company writing legislation on a drug plan, it is going to be favorable to your own interest. If you ask a chicken how it wants to be stuffed, it is going to go on about grubs, worms and corn, not Stovetop instant stuffing; or my favorite, an injected Cajun spice and a can of root beer. This is not a grass roots legislation; it is being bought and paid for by the broadband providers for their benefit.
You are indeed correct that the bill is in its early stages. The stages where action can be taken against it. As opposed to when it stumbles past the Presidents desk. Tell me, do you wait until the bumper is at your knees before you get out of the way of the onrushing car?
Is it a threat? To take your rather nerd-centric analogy full circle, this is indeed a first level character being advertised as a epic warlord, but it is a first level character that is being twinked by some very rich and very influential high level characters. So there is a very real reason to be concerned. It was not misrepresented to you; you just didnt read it through the first time; or consider the implications.
The requirement of child pornography is interesting; not for what it says, but for what it implies. It forces companies not to allow child porn on the internet pipes they provide. What does that mean? It means that all traffic flowing has to be monitored; in order to ensure that no child porn is present. That includes all e-mail message, all forum traffic, all browsing, all downloads. In other words, your right to privacy is being bent over a barrel and taken roughly without even the common courtesy of a reach-around. As I have previously noted once you control the traffic, you are responsible for the content.
What is even worse is that this is not going to make that big a difference in stopping child pornography. In order to bust someone you have to be able put their backside in the chair in front of the computer at the time of the incident. There are better ways; that do not infringe on the privacy of everyone on the internet.
Now your last point about making the average download of 1mb every 5 seconds. There is a caveat to that. The content must be capable of being downloaded at that speed. If the provider can prove that you can get the speed they contracted for (lets say from their own supported music download service); then their obligation in regard to your speed is met; even if you cannot get that speed from the service you wish to use.