[ale] OT: Craig Newmark of Craig's List on Net Neutrality

[Jim Popovitch]

Geoffrey wrote:
> Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 
>> Is that FUD?  Where do you see that this is the issue that broadband 
>> providers are concerned with?
> 
> Do you really think they'll stop at simply prompting you to go to 
> another site?  Come on, look at television.  There's not a channel out 
> there that doesn't have pop up commercials during the shows now.  It was 
> bad enough when the commercials interupted the shows, now they're 
> running during them.

So, why aren't you advocating a law to restrict TV broadcasters from 
displaying pop-up ads on their content?  I understand that you have 
pet-peeves (lots of them it seems ;-)), but really now, should everyone 
of your pet-peeves stimulate a new law (which, btw, passing new laws 
isn't cheap either)?

-Jim P.