{"id":1906,"date":"2017-12-03T10:57:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T15:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2017-12-03T10:57:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T15:57:01","slug":"net-neutrality-and-infrastructure-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=1906","title":{"rendered":"Net Neutrality And Infrastructure Investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ajit Pai claims eliminating net neutrality will spur carriers to invest in network infrastructure. And he&#8217;s not exactly wrong &#8211; there&#8217;s equipment required to QOS traffic to allow companies who have paid access extortion to have\u00a0<em>their<\/em> traffic move faster. There&#8217;s equipment required to block services for subscribers who haven&#8217;t opted to pay for, say, the &#8220;Social Media Bundle&#8221;. Billing systems will need to be updated, which means more work for developers.<\/p>\n<p>Turning all of the public roadways over to private corporations and allowing them to elect to operate them as free or toll roadways would spur a lot of investment or hiring too. There&#8217;s not an automated toll collecting barricade at the end of my street today, or a human toll collector.\u00a0Imprisoning half a percent of the entire US population spurred a lot of investment and hiring too &#8211; new prisons, guards, support staff.<\/p>\n<p>Investment or hiring is not, eo ipso, a boon. Sure it&#8217;s great for the company whose products are being purchased. Sure it&#8217;s great for the person who just got a job. But\u00a0<em>for society<\/em> some impetus for investment and hiring is outright detrimental.<\/p>\n<p>Since Pai has outright stated that he cares naught for public opinion, I am appealing to my members of Congress to enact legislation to enact principals similar to the existing net neutrality regulations. That&#8217;s the point of checks and balances in government &#8211; the courts could deem the reclassification of Internet providers to be unconstitutional (it isn&#8217;t, so not gonna happen). Congress can pass laws changing that which the executive branch needs to enforce. The executive branch can veto the legislative net neutrality bill, but a 2\/3 majority in Congress can override the veto. Courts can rule those laws unconstitutional (since the existing regulations have already passed legal challenges, that&#8217;s doubtful too).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ajit Pai claims eliminating net neutrality will spur carriers to invest in network infrastructure. And he&#8217;s not exactly wrong &#8211; there&#8217;s equipment required to QOS traffic to allow companies who have paid access extortion to have\u00a0their traffic move faster. There&#8217;s equipment required to block services for subscribers who haven&#8217;t opted to pay for, say, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,29],"tags":[192],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-technology","tag-net-neutrality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}