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It is fitting that Michael Geist’s column is published in The Toronto Star<\/a>, which has a reputation as being the official news agency of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. Yesterday’s column<\/a> reflected the leftist bias that inspires many academics so thoroughly. It is a wonder that university graduates can become functional in the capitalist environment that greets them in the real world.<\/p>\n

There are just too many critiques of Michael’s piece to address while keeping this posting manageable. I’ll touch on just a few.<\/p>\n

Although he tries to find inspiration in the report of the TPR to support his populist campaign against a ‘two-tiered internet’, Michael continues to quote the text out of context – in exactly the same manner that he did last November<\/a>. In the interest of space, I’ll advise you to simply look there. The TPR explicitly permits ISPs to “take into account any reasonable technical constraints and efficiency considerations related to providing such access,” no matter how much Professor Geist tries to ignore the plain text. If you repeat a half truth does it become whole?<\/p>\n

He suggests that the FCC imposed net neutrality conditions on AT&T – when the reality was that these were AT&T;’s voluntary commitments<\/a> in order to sway the minority Democrat commissioners. The FCC itself has consumer protection principles<\/a> that are comparable in effect to what is set out in the TPR and are have been generally upheld by CRTC practice.<\/p>\n

The article complains on one hand about “steady price increases” from DSL and cable providers, but on the other hand, net neutrality advocates don’t want these ISPs to develop alternate revenue sources in order to keep prices for internet access affordable. Indeed, most comments on his site argue that the carriers should just charge more to people who want faster downloads. Well, I’m confused. Which is it? Charge more or avoid price increases? Should the carriers lose money when they invest in your infrastructure?<\/p>\n

The article charges that the Minister is “burying attempts to establish a national broadband infrastructure,” ignoring the fact that there are already numerous national broadband backbones owned, maintained and continually upgraded by a number of carriers operating in a competitive environment. The last thing we need is a government initiative competing against or replacing private sector corporations. It seems that we are seeing a call to nationalize the internet backbone – returning to central planning and control by government.<\/p>\n

Life would be simpler that way – one benevolent crown corporation carrier with all of our best interests always in the forefront of their planning. Sorry to say that the era of PTT<\/a>s has largely become a distant memory. I seem to recall that we found that those government monopoly phone companies ended up restraining innovation and charging way too much for lousy service.<\/p>\n

Of course, the PTTs had decent wages and great pensions for employees. Those were<\/span> the good ol’ days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is fitting that Michael Geist’s column is published in The Toronto Star, which has a reputation as being the official news agency of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. Yesterday’s column reflected the leftist bias that inspires many academics so thoroughly. It is a wonder that university graduates can become functional in the capitalist environment that …<\/p>\n

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