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Re: How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds

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Post by m0th87 »

3825 wrote: post #17
minikites wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed and also this should be true for the pay of elected officials and corporate executives.

Minimum wage for elected officials sounds good on paper. Michael Bloomberg would not mind. However, how does this work for corporate executives? When you say pay does this include stock grants and options or just salary?

Also it arguably opens the doors for corruption. Bloomberg ran on a campaign of "I'm so rich, no one can bribe me." If a non-billionaire politician receives the minimum wage, they could be more susceptible to financial incentives.

Re: How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds

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Post by ntietz »

minikites wrote: post #16
PaulHoule wrote: post #11

I'd like to see a law that government offices can only have an internet connection as fast as the slowest constituent.

Agreed and also this should be true for the pay of elected officials and corporate executives.

The problem with this is that it limits elected officials to only be already wealthy, because then they can go without a good paycheck. High salaries are important to letting the common person into office (although there are plenty of OTHER factors that stop that from happening).

Re: How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds

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Post by gph »

SimeVidas wrote: post #7

Can someone ELI5 this? Why would the FCC visit your site?

Would be funny if porn sites implemented this. If FCC employees are like other federal departments there's a good chance that's how they spend a lot of their time[1].

[1]http://www.seeyounexttuesday.com/study-federal-employees-spe...

Re: How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds

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Post by Yunk »

sehr wrote: post #2

Might as well do Congress while you're at it!

Call me a hawk, but I think it makes more sense for content provider who wont be buying their way into the fast lane to pre-emptively rate limit all customers of the major US ISPs.

Content providers that depend on the US may want to synchronize on specific day of the week to limit each ISP, for example Comcast Thursday, while foreign providers can conservatively cut off all of the US so they don't have to worry about missing any future pay networks..

Re: How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds

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Post by eloff »

minikites wrote: post #16
PaulHoule wrote: post #11

I'd like to see a law that government offices can only have an internet connection as fast as the slowest constituent.

Agreed and also this should be true for the pay of elected officials and corporate executives.

Good luck attracting and retaining talent if you can't pay market prices for executives.

Re: How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds

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Post by johnjwang »

This doesn't seem like the best outlet to protest the FCC's stance on net neutrality. The people that are going to be affected most by this (if it does work) are going to be the rank and file at the FCC who have no decision making power and only hold a job there. The FCC has 2k employees and most of them don't even work in the relevant bureau that deals with net neutrality.

When news outlets say the "FCC's plan for net neutrality", what they really mean is the plan that Tom Wheeler and his office put together. You're going to hurt the wrong people if you do this and it succeeds. Why not write to your Congressperson instead or think of something that doesn't adversely affect a ton of people who don't have anything to do with the net neutrality debate?

Re: How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds

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Post by rmc »

minikites wrote: post #16
PaulHoule wrote: post #11

I'd like to see a law that government offices can only have an internet connection as fast as the slowest constituent.

Agreed and also this should be true for the pay of elected officials and corporate executives.

Sure fire way to encourage politicans to take bribes as well as ensuring only the independently wealthy can be politicians,
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