Comments on: The buy-in http://www.tamark.ca/public/2006/01/30/the-buy-in-2/ It's about the journalism Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:09:38 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ed Kohler http://www.tamark.ca/public/2006/01/30/the-buy-in-2/comment-page-1/#comment-8815 Ed Kohler Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:47:15 +0000 http://www.tamark.ca/students/?p=2023#comment-8815 I certainly don't feel like there is a free ride, since I pay for web hosting, bandwidth for web sites I host, and I pay for internet access for viewing sites. Since this proposal seems to be anti-consumer, anti-content creators, and anti-growth, I'd expect a journalist to think about how this really effects their audience. Charging for making their networks incrementally better rather than providing a better level of service to all is a pretty lame stance from our telecommunications companies. I certainly don’t feel like there is a free ride, since I pay for web hosting, bandwidth for web sites I host, and I pay for internet access for viewing sites.

Since this proposal seems to be anti-consumer, anti-content creators, and anti-growth, I’d expect a journalist to think about how this really effects their audience. Charging for making their networks incrementally better rather than providing a better level of service to all is a pretty lame stance from our telecommunications companies.

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