On 12/1/14, 7:11 AM, Milos Rancic wrote:
There are some items -- abused or not for marketing purposes of the entities used for achieving interests of their shareholders -- which belong to the corpus of common good. Like air and free knowledge are, for example.
If an ISP wanted to make *all* online free-knowledge resources exempt from per-MB data charges, that would be a much more interesting proposal. It's the differential pricing between different sources of knowledge that I find more troubling: why should a user pay more to access the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy than Wikipedia? That's already attempting to shape, via differential pricing, where online users get their information.
-Mark