From Slashdot today

[Billy Crook]

This XKCD is its own argument for asserting
privacy/neutrality/anonymity via encryption.

http://xkcd.com/504/

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:05, Billy Crook <billycrook at gmail.com> wrote:
> Probably a better way of enforcing network neutrality is to encrypt
> all communications (say, using IPSEC) to the point, where ISPs are
> *NOT ABLE* to tell content apart, and to use anonymity networks like
> TOR so ISPs are *NOT ABLE* to tell who is connecting to what.  Time is
> ticking though.  Software and users need to act fast to set a
> precedent of being untrackable and untraceable before ISPs set a
> precedent of inspecting and controlling all traffic.
>
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:33, James Sissel <jimsissel at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> "For all their incessant bickering in the first two presidential debates
>> over conflicts of interest and government regulation, PopMech columnist
>> Glenn Derene is puzzled that the candidates have yet to be challenged on a
>> vital issue directly related to both those topics: Net neutrality. John
>> McCain and Barack Obama have stated elsewhere their opposing views on the
>> issue, with McCain being opposed to Net neutrality and favoring light
>> regulation of the Internet, while Obama is in favor of neutrality and seeks
>> Government involvement. In any case, since there is no standard accepted
>> definition of "network neutrality," until the candidates elaborate on their
>> positions (which they both declined to do for this piece, nor anywhere else
>> so far, for that matter), "both sides can make a credible case that they're
>> the ones defending freedom of innovation and open communication.""
>>
>> And we should all know when the Government gets involved (for good or
>> evil) the whole thing starts circling the drain.  And just what is "light
>> regulation"?  Are both candidates clueless or just stupid?  Which one is the
>> lesser of 2 evils?
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