Virgin Media CEO: Net Neutrality is “Bollocks”
 |
DigitalSpy.co.uk reports that the CEO of Virgin Media, Neil Berkett has attacked the principle of Net Neutrality, where ISPs stay hands off on the content they deliver, and not degrade the speed of any content, as “Bollocks”.
The CEO said that Virgin is already in talks with some providers to make their content delivered faster than others. This is a huge issue as was discovered by the BBC earlier this week when ISPs threatened to throttle the iPlayer if the publicly funded corporation didn’t help pay for additional bandwidth costs.
The United States seems to be on a fast track to Net Neutrality, with many politicians, such as Obama repeatedly stating it as an important policy measure, meanwhile in the UK and Canada, ISPs seem to be taking ever greater measures to make sure any such principle can never take hold. Ofcom (the UK’s communications watchdog) has sadly taken a “hands off” approach to the issue.
It can only get worse from here.
Pray.
Loading ...
[…] You may have read around the web about the Belgian woman, Tania Dervaux, offering to take the virginity of any Net Neutrality supporting guy. What you may not have realised from the (largely American) coverage is that it was a direct response to a story I posted earlier this month, about the Virgin Media CEO calling Net Neutrality “Bollocks”. […]