{"id":4430,"date":"2008-06-04T18:08:09","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T01:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/06\/04\/every-silver-lining-has-a-dark-cloud\/"},"modified":"2008-06-04T18:08:09","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T01:08:09","slug":"every-silver-lining-has-a-dark-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/04\/every-silver-lining-has-a-dark-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Silver Lining Has a Dark Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tUPDATE: the Times BITS Blog has totally re-written its story, removing most of the incendiary language, so this post is now officially academic. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/06\/05\/comcast_blacklists\/\">similar piece<\/a> in The Register has also been re-written. It would be a lot easier for everyone if our blogger\/journalists would get things right the first time, but better late than not even.<\/p>\n<p><strike>Comcast&#8217;s &#8220;protocol agnostic&#8221; network management system has been generally praised by all parties in the network neutrality debate as a sane and sensible approach to congestion management. As the <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20080603-comcast-testing-protocol-agnostic-traffic-management.html\">system enters trials today<\/a> in two locations, the praise has been tempered by some irrational criticism. Saul Hansell, a New York Times blogger, sees the new system as <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/04\/comcast-tests-a-new-bandwidth-black-list\/\">something quite nefarious, a &#8220;blacklist:&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It will test new devices that will keep track of Comcast users and assemble a blacklist of heavy users. Those on the blacklist will find that all of their online activities may slow down at peak times: from downloading movies to checking e-mail.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This account is extremely bizarre, but not unprecedented. Saul Hansell, meet <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leni_Riefenstahl\">your progenitor<\/a>.<\/strike><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: the Times BITS Blog has totally re-written its story, removing most of the incendiary language, so this post is now officially academic. A similar piece in The Register has also been re-written. It would be a lot easier for everyone if our blogger\/journalists would get things right the first time, but better late than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/04\/every-silver-lining-has-a-dark-cloud\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Every Silver Lining Has a Dark Cloud&#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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-19s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430","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=4430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}