Comcast Shill’s the Net Neutrality Debate

I just got done watching this hearing on C-SPAN. Very interesting, deep technical issues, and what Comcast has been doing with bit torrent packets is very dirty and dubious. The panel had a lot of great people and input on the specific issues. If you get a chance it is well worth watching. The quality of our network infrastructure in this country is starting to pale in comparison to what the rest of the world is doing. I worry that if we fall behind too far it will have a serious impact on our economy and ability to innovate.

At anyrate, I noticed that many of the seats in the audience appeared to be empty, curious given that the topic was so fundamental and important. So much for the dedication and interest of the shills.

Glad I am no longer on Comcast.

One big issue I took away from the meeting is that there is a deficiency in access to “proprietary” network traffic data to properly assess the impact of these dubious practices have on the network. So the real problem is that even the knowledgeable experts can’t properly study the problem and provide useful analysis of the degradation of our very complicated internet network. So we are doubly screwed, we can’t study the problems with proper empirical analysis and the problems may be much more complicated than we currently appreciate. All because we have these commercial network gatekeepers like Comcast who don’t play by the internet rules and consensus when they implement dubious network shaping techniques such as blocking bit torrent.