Remember who he works for, his name, and one thing about him:
Telstra Bigpond’s Justin Milne is a TWAT! I am sorry there is no other way to say it.
Why the strong words? Because Justin Milne has taken a leaf out of Sol Trujillo’s book and created the most rubbish Op Ed about Network Neutrality I have ever read. This monkey headed galoot is trying the whole FUD (Fear, uncertainty, doubt) trip that Sol thought he was so clever at by likening net neutrality to free love. Yes free love. This would have to be the most woeful analogy I have heard in a long time, and clearly he thinks people are going to buy it. Maybe they will, which is scary; Well, here are the facts:
His whole pitch, obviously aimed at uneducated consumers is that the websites that you view should pay your ISP (eg Telstra Bigpond) whatever your ISP would like to charge them to send information that you requested to you. Anyone that is even slightly educated about the internet would know two things are wrong here: 1.) YOU ALREADY pay your ISP for ANY information you send or request as part of your plan, and 2.) The websites you visit already pay their own network provider to have a connection and send information to you.
Despite the fact that the information gets payed for at both ends of the internet, Justin, to be sure, goes on to makes an another moronic analogy that network neutrality is akin “Holiday resorts asking Qantas to transport vacationers to them free of charge.” Are you kidding Justin? This analogy is so ill founded, it looks the Tower of Pisa look vertical, because the truth is, holiday resorts have never had to pay Qantas to transport their clients, its the clients who pay the airfare. To continue on the spirit of analogies, I have made one to explain what Telstra are trying to do:
Telstra want us to live in a world where we pay for shipping and duty costs when we import goods, and then the customs office sends another bill overseas to the manufacturer of the product, which must be payed before we can take them into the country.
We all know where this would head, manufacturers everywhere would go out of business, prices would rise, and even worse, no one would want to sell anything to you. This is the world that Telstra is seriously trying to get us to warm to. Telstra has had a long history of believing that Australia owes them a living, even back in 2006 their main argument for trying to destroy network neutrality is that it costs money to build and maintain a network, and somebody has to pay. Are they not forgetting that somebody does pay? millions of Australian internet users pay monthly, in fact due to Telstra’s monopoly Australians pay one of the highest prices in the western world for one of the slowest services. Telstra know this full well and have been using their monopoly to hinder new technology so they could milk it on their old stuff.
What we know Telstra, and other monopoly providers have always tried to get rid of network neutrality for a long time, and it is terrible, a lack of network neutrality would turn the premise of the internet on its head and allow the owners of the physical copper wires we are connected to to hold freedom of speech at ransom. This is a terrible, terrible thing, and must not be allowed to happen.
This is why Total Fair, through the Freedom of Communication project, and others have sought to get network neutrality recognised and protected by governments, because without this, it is only a matter of time before the internet, and freedom of speech.
Network Neutrality is a core issue of Freedom of Communication, you can read more about Network Neutrality here.
Network neutrality = free love?
Justin Milne is a Twat!
Remember who he works for, his name, and one thing about him:
Telstra Bigpond’s Justin Milne is a TWAT! I am sorry there is no other way to say it.
Why the strong words? Because Justin Milne has taken a leaf out of Sol Trujillo’s book and created the most rubbish Op Ed about Network Neutrality I have ever read. This monkey headed galoot is trying the whole FUD (Fear, uncertainty, doubt) trip that Sol thought he was so clever at by likening net neutrality to free love. Yes free love. This would have to be the most woeful analogy I have heard in a long time, and clearly he thinks people are going to buy it. Maybe they will, which is scary; Well, here are the facts:
His whole pitch, obviously aimed at uneducated consumers is that the websites that you view should pay your ISP (eg Telstra Bigpond) whatever your ISP would like to charge them to send information that you requested to you. Anyone that is even slightly educated about the internet would know two things are wrong here: 1.) YOU ALREADY pay your ISP for ANY information you send or request as part of your plan, and 2.) The websites you visit already pay their own network provider to have a connection and send information to you.
Despite the fact that the information gets payed for at both ends of the internet, Justin, to be sure, goes on to makes an another moronic analogy that network neutrality is akin “Holiday resorts asking Qantas to transport vacationers to them free of charge.” Are you kidding Justin? This analogy is so ill founded, it looks the Tower of Pisa look vertical, because the truth is, holiday resorts have never had to pay Qantas to transport their clients, its the clients who pay the airfare. To continue on the spirit of analogies, I have made one to explain what Telstra are trying to do:
We all know where this would head, manufacturers everywhere would go out of business, prices would rise, and even worse, no one would want to sell anything to you. This is the world that Telstra is seriously trying to get us to warm to. Telstra has had a long history of believing that Australia owes them a living, even back in 2006 their main argument for trying to destroy network neutrality is that it costs money to build and maintain a network, and somebody has to pay. Are they not forgetting that somebody does pay? millions of Australian internet users pay monthly, in fact due to Telstra’s monopoly Australians pay one of the highest prices in the western world for one of the slowest services. Telstra know this full well and have been using their monopoly to hinder new technology so they could milk it on their old stuff.
This is why Total Fair, through the Freedom of Communication project, and others have sought to get network neutrality recognised and protected by governments, because without this, it is only a matter of time before the internet, and freedom of speech.
Network Neutrality is a core issue of Freedom of Communication, you can read more about Network Neutrality here.
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