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.