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Old 08-21-2008, 01:00 PM   #6
BigV
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Originally Posted by SteveDallas View Post
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V? You think "agnostic" isn't an incendiary term? Pfft.
Not my observation, from the article.

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Originally Posted by SteveDallas View Post
I'm in favor of network neutrality. The kind of packet-shaping they're talking about is onlya couple steps removed from censorship, and that's not a positoin the ISPs want to be in (whether they know it or not).

Please note, though, that I make a distinction between this kind of activity on the part of the ISP, and the same things done by companies and individuals on their own networks.
I agree on all points. Net neutrality, protocol agnosticism, whatever you want to call it, I'm *strongly* in favor of that on the open internet.

I also agree with your exception noted for private networks.
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