> It doesn’t do anyone any good to lament the way things have come to be as they are and discuss current issues as though we can go back in time and change things. There was a legitimate desire to move out of the city, and so towns with tax bases formed and infrastructure was built.

Actually, if you think about it,…

I’m not going to waste my time with two separate threads. You’re not worth one, let alone two.

Good point. I’m fine with voluntary certification systems, which is part of the functionality of guild, but forced monopolized certification is not good. The Yoga Alliance has been fighting government enforced certification for Yoga instructors for years.

> What CDN is “intimately connected to various ISPs?” If you come up with an answer for that, is the CDN one that’s legitimately used heavily? You know anything about CloudFlare? Akamai?

Let’s start with this one topic. Which CDNs are intimately connected to various ISPs? Google, Amazon, Netflix, and by now, probably…

> Instead of pointing out well known facts that I obviously did not intend to point as true (i.e. Cave duelers 5oK years ago).

The word is “dweller” not “dueler.”

> Oh. Boy.

Really? Here’s some more info on the amount of traffic that passes through CDNs: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/soluti…

Alright; in order to alleviate another facet of your ignorance, let me point out that most people did not live in caves before the agricultural revolution. They used caves for ceremonial practices, and that’s why there is such a great store of material inventory in a lot of caves. Now; some societies did make use of…

Clearly you have no interest in a discussion. I provided a supporting argument. You just want to think you’re right. Bye bye Juan.

> You cannot possibly build a large scale fiber network without crossing or impacting public land.

That’s not a result of inability on the part of the private sector. It’s the result of the government ensuring that it has swaths of government owned land all over the place and because of the government subsidization of…

> Trusting these mega corporations over the government that we as the citizens of this country elected is at best ridiculous and only fitting within the mind of a libertarian.

Interaction with corporations is voluntary. Interaction with government is not. Also, only about half the country actively votes, as the other…

Lease, or buy, the necessary land. And yes; it is more difficult with a population which is incredibly spread out, which is another problem with government subsidization of infrastructure: it results in sprawl, which is both economically and environmentally destructive. But that’s moving off the topic a bit.

I am neither paid by a political party nor a supporter of either the GOP or the DNC.

> That’s not what I mean at all. In order to run a fiber/coax network, the provider is physically reliant on public rights-of-way to build the network. The land where they put the poles, run wires under the street, etc. is public land...

That’s how it’s currently set up. Yes. It doesn’t have to be. Like I said, the…

Again, parody or not, you were trying to use it to knock down the original argument, while failing to establish a strong enough connection between the two to do so, and therefore it is a straw man.

You don’t want my word on the issues of net neutrality? Fine. Take Wired’s instead. http://www.wired.com/2014/06/net_ne…

> But apparently your too stuck on your crazy notions that you can’t or won’t realize that I neither support nor agree with any of those “arguments”.

See? You’re trying to knock down those three to knock down mine. That’s a straw man. Well, I wouldn’t expect much else from someone who doesn’t know his homophones.

The…

So your suggestion is to just scrap the services entirely. Got it. Man I bet you’d also be the first to complain when you start losing all those streaming services, or they start spiking in price.

(1) I am not ignorant on the topic of net neutrality. I can quite well versed on the topic, probably far better than you.

(2) You guessed wrong. Quit while you’re not too far behind.

> CDNs work perfectly without any special lane traffic shaping

There’s a difference between people keeping the internet neutral and the government policing the internet. I’m all for keeping the internet a neutral playing field. I’m not going to accept the government telling private entities how to run their own services.

I’m anti police force. Are you going to hear that on Fox News? Nah. Unlike you, I actually do my own research. I don’t listen to rhetoric. So far CDNs haven’t been hit by NN. But that could change. There are so many issues with net neutrality, and I don’t have time to discuss it with someone whose only comment is “fox…