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Originally Posted by boredandtattooed
net neutrality is BAD... u guys must not have children
also, crippling devices how??? theyll still always be allowed to set their specs, and gps blocks,etc if they want..
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I have children. I just don't need anyone else to do the parenting for me, thank you very much. And I certainly don't need anyone parenting ME and treating ME like a child.
And there are plenty of people who agree with me. Read that site and see just how many.
As for them crippling devices- uh, how about Sling Player, Opera Browser, Internet Sharing, and Google Voice all getting banned from the iPhone even though all of them met all of the requirements to get approved? How about carriers (Verizon) locking down the GPS on devices to make you pay for their GPS services? How about the nuerous phones that had WiFi stripped out of them back when carriers were trying to force everyone to have data (now they just flat out require data on just about every phone anyway).
I'm trying to figure out if your post was serious or not. I hope it was in satire, because if you were being serious then you couldn't have possibly been anymore foolish.
If you want to stop speculating and look at real world examples- look at how the USA is always dead last to get a phone. The rest of the world always has it first. And the technology in the USA is way behind everywhere else (we don't even have video calling yet, and one of the largest carriers, T-Mobile, is BARELY starting to launch 3G).
Look at how the landline business was stagnant for like 100 years when AT&T was able to control the devices. In case you forgot, AT&T was the ONLY phone company, and they wouldn't let any device on their network unless it came from AT&T. That held the telco industry back for around 100 years. Look at the services offered in the 1970's. Basic dial tone and long distance. The same as in the 1800's. After the government ended that ridiculous control, suddenly we got dial up modems, fax machines, answering machines, DSL lines, and nowadays we have high def TV coming across those phone lines- with caller ID, conference calling, VOIP, and so on.
Look at how much progress we have made in the telco industry in the last 15-30 years (when AT&T was forced to open up their network). And this is after going the previous 100 years with no progress at all whatsoever.
Be smart and learn from the past. We are making the exact same mistake we made with the landline industry.