another ISP-fag here. no issue to manage traffic based on the technical (read non-content based) capabilities of the network and the overall traffic demands.
one key in my mind would be transparency as to the traffic management algorythms in use.
just like what would be wanted from gulag etc…in terms of presentation of search results.
yeah agree on the end-to-end difficulties. It would require a concerted effort by all the parties involved and would certainly not fit well into the access - agg - core - peering network model.
it would require finer grained traffic management based on content at each network level.
i'm going to have to concede this point i think.
what you could do (logically - technically its probably not possible at the moment) would be to define several global profiles and tag any traffic with that. Like the old TDM switches could do on the masking tables.
in those days global parameters could be set at the exchange level……but the configs of those switches were much more complicated in a certain sense (because they were actual switches i think).
In any case, you could have a single on/off switch that could be used to disallow any tracking/tracing.
What is needed is a right to not be tracked + a right to defend against it.
The right to defend could be very practical - say the right to organize ddos attacks against offending parties…..
the chans could sell it as a service or provide it as a public service.
yeah, i don't know the answer to that. a proper defense in my mind would:
hit the offending part in the pocket book and
be immediate, no courts etc….
we should see the unwanted tracking and tracing as an immediate and ongoing threat to the person
maybe, but when a burgular is in your home you don't wait for the courts (or even the police) to take defensive action).
This. Shit tends to go sideways when there are alternative revenue sources in play.
A great deal of public investment went into the development of the internet.
Primarily in the sense of taking a hands-off approach and letting the tech industry develop it with little interference.
That trust has been repaid with tech co policies DESIGNED to undermine public discourse and in the end any sembelance of order in society.
The private parties that own/control these companies got obscenely rich along the way.
And now they want to run the world.
What do you propose as a solution?
How do you propose to fix it.
Nice.
Where did I call private property public?
I said that Public capital was invested into many of the tech companies.
I assume that corporations have some level of responsibility to society.
Just like persons do (and a corporation is a legal person).
We are certainly entitled to a discussion around whether or not particular companies have violated the public trust.
We have fucking laws that cover this.
Like anti-trust laws.
you make no sense. it is the private individuals running the corporations (like the ISPs, Media and content providers, and social media companies that have caused and are continuing to cause the erosion of freedom.
You are either stupid AF or a shill.