{"id":4317,"date":"2007-10-25T16:49:38","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T23:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2007\/10\/25\/congressman-to-conspiracy-nut-let-the-market-work\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T16:49:38","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T23:49:38","slug":"congressman-to-conspiracy-nut-let-the-market-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/25\/congressman-to-conspiracy-nut-let-the-market-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman to Conspiracy Nut: Let the Market Work!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tChris Soghoian is claiming that Congressmen Rick Boucher wants to slap some regulations on Comcast <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/8301-10784_3-9804158-7.html\">for engaging in Admission Control.<\/a> Not so:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Soghoian] asked Boucher what he would do if Comcast stuck to its guns and kept discriminating against BitTorrent. In particular, [Soghoian] asked him if he would propose legislation compelling the company to treat all traffic fairly.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for fans of Net neutrality, the congressman said he was not ready to go down this path and instead stressed market-based methods of fixing the problems. Instead of tinkering with packets, the congressman said that in the short term, Comcast should &#8220;simply tier their offerings and engage in a pricing structure that allocates more bandwidth to those who pay more, and less to those who pay less.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, he said &#8220;the long-term answer is to deploy more capacity. That is what municipal broadband and other telecom companies are doing. Ultimately, the cable companies will have to deploy fiber to the house.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s appropriate for the Congressman to dictate wiring specifications, but he&#8217;s entitled to his opinion as long as he doesn&#8217;t try to legislate it.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Soghoian is claiming that Congressmen Rick Boucher wants to slap some regulations on Comcast for engaging in Admission Control. Not so: [Soghoian] asked Boucher what he would do if Comcast stuck to its guns and kept discriminating against BitTorrent. In particular, [Soghoian] asked him if he would propose legislation compelling the company to treat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/25\/congressman-to-conspiracy-nut-let-the-market-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Congressman to Conspiracy Nut: Let the Market Work!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-17D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}