And here’s one of those bad articles about internet infrastructure that could’ve avoided being bad – if they’d read the article they linked to — but is still just idiotically terrible.

This was important new research that highlighted how strained the infrastructure underpinning our internet is.

No. Just no. The internet infrastructure is not “strained.” There is an absolute glut of bandwidth. There is hundreds of thousands of miles of dark fiber all around the country.

This article is so full of pure dumbassery that I am pretty convinced that the author experienced some acute brain trauma while actually composing this tripe.

There is no “both sides” to this debate. Users have already paid the ISPs to bring the traffic to them. Netflix has already paid Level 3 or Cogent to carry their traffic.

It is fully and 100% the ISPs here are shirking their duties in an attempt to extort money.

In short, the ISPs are not turning up a port or two on a switch on their side and connecting them with Level 3 or Cogent with a $20 fiber cable. (It wouldn’t actually be $300 as mentioned in the Susan Crawford article as these switches in the meet-me room are usually quite close together, within 10-20 feet.)

This writer – Ben Popper — was most likely paid in part by ISP money to write this, I am guessing.

Such a fucking idiot.

Oh, this is going to piss a lot of people off.

But it’s right. Wanting us (correctly, in my view) to celebrate cultural differences but then denying that cultural differences exist is daft liberalism at its worst.

It’s not that white men never catcall; they do, just not nearly as often (which I’ve seen in person when walking behind and from talking to female friends) and usually more subtly.

But, yep.

White men, on the other hand, have no use for that sort of catcalling. They marked their territory centuries ago. So, instead, their sexual harassment is less invasive (“in passing,” as Bliss puts it) and harder to recognize—even when it’s staring you in the face. They do it in bars, at parties, on the frat row at your local college campus, in boardrooms, and other places men of color are never privy to, at least not in positions of power.

It’s funny how nominally current (idiotic) liberalism unknowingly pushes their own version of atomistic neoliberal individualism except when it becomes inconvenient and then the screams are deafening.

This is the same as the Maher Islam debate. Just because some group is oppressed or perceived to be oppressed does not absolve them from all criticism or make them angelic beings.

Such is the case here as well.