now that the internet is broken

The Internet isn't "broken".
I'm not aware of anyone who has made that claim, though people who are in favor of ISP's being able to block or slow traffic from companies they don't like make the claim that people opposed to ISP's doing that are saying the Internet is broken.

Al Gore did address the issues that will be the result of the Thursday's repeal when he and Tim-Berners Lee spoke at the Campus Party Brazil conference in 2011.

PS, Gore never claimed to have invented the Internet.
That idiotic claim by the right has been debunked many times, including by the men who invented the TCP and IP protocols.
In fact, Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf said
As far back as the 1970s Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship. Though easily forgotten, now, at the time this was an unproven and controversial concept.

Gore secured the passage of the High Performance Computing and Communications Act in 1991. This “Gore Act” supported the National Research and Education Network (NREN) initiative that became one of the major vehicles for the spread of the Internet beyond the field of computer science.
The person who created Mosaic directly attribute it's creation to funding provided by Gore's bill.
 
The Internet isn't "broken".
I'm not aware of anyone who has made that claim, though people who are in favor of ISP's being able to block or slow traffic from companies they don't like make the claim that people opposed to ISP's doing that are saying the Internet is broken.

Al Gore did address the issues that will be the result of the Thursday's repeal when he and Tim-Berners Lee spoke at the Campus Party Brazil conference in 2011.

PS, Gore never claimed to have invented the Internet.
That idiotic claim by the right has been debunked many times, including by the men who invented the TCP and IP protocols.
In fact, Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf said
The person who created Mosaic directly attribute it's creation to funding provided by Gore's bill.

all very interesting.

al's inventing of
the internet has become
a humorous,
oft told wives's tale.

of course, you missed
the implied sarcasm.

the question tho,
is still valid, in the
event the internet
goes poof,
for whatever reason.
 
Give it some time to filter down. The "Net Neutrality" laws or whatever it is, haven't had time to literally be put into practice.
 
A cautionary tale for politicians: Al Gore and the ‘invention’ of the Internet

It all started during a March 8, 1999, interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, as Gore was preparing to make a run for the Democratic nomination for president. The clip of Blitzer asking Gore about his vision is embedded below.

But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I’ve traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

As you can see, the critical sentence just fell amid a bunch of boring verbiage, like a diamond in the rough: “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ntion-of-the-internet/?utm_term=.a3fc3402998e
 
Something dawned on me this morning about the swamp dwelling lobbyist doing the bidding of corporations.

We know the con artist has a bro crush on Putin and fancies himself a semi-dictator. It's why he thinks real news media reporting on the chaos and corruption of his administration, or the nearly one dozen women he's assaulted telling their stories are fake.

This follow the leader has taken hold in the FCC where Pai pulled a Crimea. By that I mean, the "vote" was pre-determined. All he had to do was make up fake numbers to claim the people didn't want competition.

Putin did the same thing in the Crimea when he invaded Ukraine. After his Russian troops took control of the region a "vote" was held where there was only one option, men with guns stood at "polling places" and told people how to "vote", and no one from the outside was able to see any "ballot". Phone calls were intercepted wherein those counting the "votes" asked what the results should be.

People keep asking where's the proof about collusion between the con artist and Russia during the campaign. The con artist and his cabal are using the literal playbook of Putin. It doesn't get much more colluded than that.
 
All we're doing is going back to the way the Intenet was run before 2015. The government had no control over the Intenet before 2015, before Obama and his Marxists got the idea they knew better than the forces that built it. :rolleyes:
 
All we're doing is going back to the way the Intenet was run before 2015.


That's not correct and isn't even near the same zip code as correct, though it doesn't really matter now, as the Internet has ceased to be open and democratic.

Interesting side note; since most common carrier telephone services are now carried over IP, the decision to label the internet as an information service instead of treating it like a utility or essential service means voice telephony can also be fully commercialized.

Outside the united states, radio waves are still primarily mandated for social purposes as opposed to purely commercial purposes.

Nobody should be surprised when the Internet's "fringe" elements and non mainstream interest groups are discontinued or priced out of existence by free market capitalism.
 
That's not correct and isn't even near the same zip code as correct, though it doesn't really matter now, as the Internet has ceased to be open and democratic.

Interesting side note; since most common carrier telephone services are now carried over IP, the decision to label the internet as an information service instead of treating it like a utility or essential service means voice telephony can also be fully commercialized.

Outside the united states, radio waves are still primarily mandated for social purposes as opposed to purely commercial purposes.

Nobody should be surprised when the Internet's "fringe" elements and non mainstream interest groups are discontinued or priced out of existence by free market capitalism.

You're full of shit.
 
I don't give a shit. The Net Neutrality rules of Barack Obama didn't even take effect until 2015. Before that, they didn't exist.

Facts are like your kryptonite. Why not just thank him for informing you and move on to the next Obama\Hillary\Lib bitch fest?
 
I don't give a shit. The Net Neutrality rules of Barack Obama didn't even take effect until 2015. Before that, they didn't exist.

If being "right" is more important than discussing the broader extra-political social implications of a fully commercialized internet, you have certainly defined the question in such a way as to feel good about your conclusion.
 
I see Vice is looking at launching its own community-based internet service in Brooklyn.

This is similar to the way (mostly rural) areas in north america, new zealand and elsewhere are creating their own infrastructure and internet nodes to bypass big telecom.

This movement will probably flesh out the way CLECs did in telecom (until big telecom finds a way to buy off the regulators to kill community owned internet the way they did with CLECs).
 
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