Now That It’s in the Broadband Game, Google Flip-Flops on Network Neutrality (Wired)

Posted Aug 2, 2013 0:39 UTC (Fri) by rqosa (subscriber, #24136)
In reply to: Now That It’s in the Broadband Game, Google Flip-Flops on Network Neutrality (Wired) by maxiaojun
Parent article: Now That It’s in the Broadband Game, Google Flip-Flops on Network Neutrality (Wired)

> Decentralization? Can someone tell me which is more speedy on eMule, pornography or Linux distributions.

It sounds like you're trying to imply that decentralized network applications are somehow inherently a bad thing. Why?

The way I see it, it's the centralized ones that are inherently bad, partly because of having a single point of failure, but much more importantly because of being in a single administrative domain. Someone having administrative control over a service that others rely on tends to as a consequence give them power over those other people (and the more users the service has, the more power the administrators have) — but one of the core principles of FLOSS is that people should not have power over other people. I'd go so far as to say that the exercise of power over other people is the very definition of evil.