Internet Regulation

Created Wednesday 24 February 2021

LIS-3353 - The Internet

The Internet

What makes “the Internet” unique?

We had:

- The written word
- The PRINTED word
- The Telegraph
- Radio
- TV
-Telephone (which is pretty close, actually?)

The Invisible Barbecue(s)

American Telephone and Telegraph

Interesting history here.

AT&T

In 1907, the head of AT&T argued that
the nature of telephone technology meant that it “would operate most
efficiently as a monopoly providing universal service.”

WAAAT. You mean?

Yes. AT&T OPENLY said

"Competition is BAD."

AND IT WORKED.

No seriously lol

The FCC

The telephone and ownership

Carters Hush-a-Phone

The FCC

Radio and Television
(spectrum)

Who owns your telephone and what does that mean?

The FCC

Radio and Television
(censorship?)

Spectrum

Radio and TV

Spectrum confers censorship?

Another point about wireless and freedom.

All the wifi things work at
2.4ghz

Why?

The FCC, again.

The FCC dictates what you can do at what frequencies.

This is why Radio and over the Air TV,
and CB radio and Satelites all don't mush over each other.

They say who is allowed to do what.

...so naturally, when wifi came out, they set some aside just for that, right?

LOL NO WRONG

The EXACT opposite.

Microwaves

Microwaves heat your food by BLASTING 2.4ghz waves
at the water in it so that they rub against each other.

The FCC saw that Microwaves were going to be the hotness (stop)....

Microwaves

And *deliberately* chose NOT to regulate that frequency.

i.e... Because of likely microwave oven interference
we're not going to set this aside;
ANYONE can do whatever they want on it, good luck

Microwaves

And they did, and it works fine.

Your microwave is a faraday cage
and data doesn't require that much energy.

So yes, wireless home data in the air and
your heat in the pizza is the same thing.