[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Introduction and Recommendations

[Kenneth Loafman]

Chris Cox wrote:
> Jeff Miller wrote:
>> Running your own servers is not out of the question with FIOS, you just
>> can't run them on port 80.  I know of at least one person that is running
>> their own server on Verizon's FIOS.
> 
> My worries are with the rumor mill and things that Verizon has said they
> "might" do.  But you know, lately, they're all talking up a storm about
> how each is going to restrict this/that... so much for net neutrality.

The reason Net Neutrality is going down the tubes is that programmers,
scientists, and others that produce tools and products for the computer
are notoriously non-political and the average user does not care.  If we
actively got involved with the politics we could turn this thing around.

...Ken