Interessant. Als ik zijn mening een beetje kort kan samenvatten (ik heb niet het gehele document compleet doorgelezen, ook heb ik niet complete kennis van de Amerikaanse politiek):
"Today’s Order is not about “net neutrality.” When we abandoned Title II in 2017, proponents of greater government control flooded the zone with apocalyptic rhetoric. Media outlets and politicians mindlessly parroted their claims. They predicted “the end of the Internet as we know it” and that “you’ll get the Internet one word at a time.” Consumers would have to pay to reach websites. None of it happened. Americans were subjected to one of the greatest hoaxes in regulatory history. Nor is today’s Order about preventing Internet “gatekeepers” from squashing innovation and free expression.
Again, check the receipts. After 2017, it was not the ISPs that abused their positions in the Internet ecosystem. It was not the ISPs that blocked links to the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story, old Twitter did that. It was not the ISPs that just one day after lobbying the FCC on this Order blocked all posts from a newspaper and removed all links to the outlet after it published a critical article, Facebook did that.30 It was not the ISPs that earlier this month blocked the links of California-based news
rganizations from showing up in search results to protest a state law, Google did that. And it was not the ISPs that blocked Beeper Mini, an app that enabled interoperability between iOS and Android Messaging, Apple did that.
Since 2017, we have learned that the real abusers of gatekeeper power were not ISPs operating at the physical layer, but Big Tech companies at the application layer. Perversely, today’s Order makes Big Tech behemoths even stronger than before. And today’s Order is not about correcting a market failure. Broadband access is more vibrant and competitive than ever, no matter how you slice the reams of data. Americans benefited from lower prices, faster speeds, broader and deeper coverage, increased competition, and accelerated Internet builds. Here’s what the data show. Internet speeds are up 430% since 2017 on the fixed broadband side, and they are up 647% on the mobile side. In real terms, the prices for Internet services have dropped by about 9% since the beginning of 2018, according to BLS CPI data. On the mobile broadband side alone, real prices have dropped by roughly 18% since 2017, according to BLS and industry data. And for the most popular broadband speed tiers, real prices are down 54%, and for the fastest broadband speed tiers, prices are down 55%, over the past 8 years, according to BLS and industry data."
Als ik het zo lees, ziet hij niet zo veel in het meer reguleren van de ISP's, maar meer de directe regulatie bij de giganten zelf. Daarom is hij tegen. Verder gaat hij ook nog in op de cybersecurity aspecten etc.
[Reactie gewijzigd door vincenta2 op 18 november 2024 13:27]