You are almost not worth responding to; a man clearly of low-class.
However for benefit of others on this forum I will explain why this is a very serious issue.
Pornography, despite what some might think, has been the initial driving force for a number of new technologies throughout America's past. From print to photography to color photography to home-movies to theatre movies to VCR and now the Internet, porno has been a prime driver in that it has served as a source of income to fund the cutting edge innovation in application of these technologies.
It is well known amongst those who study these things, that VCR might never have gotten off the ground were it not for the initial profits to the electronics companies provided by royalties and equipment from the original wave of VCR users: porno fiends.
Similary, as was pointed out at WebMarketWest last year with striking delivery by a well-known entrepreneurer: with VERY few exceptions, the only profits being made on the Web currently are by the purveyors of porno. And they by and large have the most cutting edge web sites as well.
The RBOCs are in a very difficult situation. To enable the technological envelope to push forward at the rate at which is wants - in other words to continue to enable technology and those who pursue it and create it - they must add massive capacity. They are not compensated by the ISPs. Indirectly, they make money from installation of 2nd lines and installation of advanced speeds (ISDN, xDSL) - but these come with costs. For the most part, they are losing profit margins very quickly thanks to the internet. $19.95 unlimited access exists ONLY because of government subsidies to the RBOCs.
While you can babble about free speech all you want, the facts of the matter are that right now the average taxpayer is subsidizing the long-hours web surfer. A great many of the long-hours web-surfers are using the web for nothing but porno. And the total bandwidth cost is over half what is available. So, the average taxpayer (probably not a porno fiend) is subsidizing the porno fiends with his hard-earned tax-dollars.
Hambrecht & Quist the highly respected technology investment bank has recently put out a report which clearly shows that flat-rate ISP and the defacto government subsidization which allows it will not exist very much longer. Why? Because it will be legislated away as being unfair. Here is the link:
techweb.com
Once the cost of internet long-hours surfing goes up, you can bet you last dollar that the relative amount of porno-fiend long-hour surfing will go down drastically. Why? Because porno-surfing is not a revenue producing activity.
The issues have nothing to do with free speech. The issues have to do with who is paying for what, do they want to be paying for that, and how do we remedy the unfair situation.
Perhaps you should reconsider who is a brain-dead moron. I believe a mirror will be helpful to you in this pursuit. I would also suggest that you visit a proctologist and request professional assistance in removing your cranium from your lower intestine - unless, of course, your current contortion is your personal defense against the RBOCs in the action you allege they are planning to take against your person. |
