{"id":2016,"date":"2007-12-11T08:50:16","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T13:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/12\/11\/news-flash-i-agree-with-seth-finkelstein\/"},"modified":"2007-12-11T08:50:16","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T13:50:16","slug":"news-flash-i-agree-with-seth-finkelstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/12\/11\/news-flash-i-agree-with-seth-finkelstein\/","title":{"rendered":"News flash: I agree with Seth Finkelstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plenty<\/a> of people, including Wired’s Threat Level blog<\/a> and my friend Leigh, are up in arms about the fact that Rogers (a major Internet service provider, for you non-Canadians) is inserting messages to its customers on top of web pages such as<\/a> the Google home page. Wired brings up the spectre of net neutrality, and other sites are also scandalized by the practice.<\/p>\n

Mike Masnick of Techdirt is right when he says that Rogers’ behaviour betrays a kind of arrogance<\/a> — a “we own the pipes, so we’ll do what we damn well please” attitude — but I fail to see how this has anything to do with net neutrality. Contrary to what Kristen Nicole at Mashable<\/a> and others are saying, Rogers is not “overwriting” Web content, it’s merely pushing the page down and inserting a message at the top. Cynthia Brumfield has an example of something Verizon does that she thinks is worse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lots of sites do the same thing with frames and so on. Is it ugly? Sure. But apart from that, I don’t see what everyone is getting excited about. In fact, while I’m not sure I want to make a habit of this sort of thing, I’m going to side with Seth “Bah Humbug” Finkelstein on this one. As he notes in his post<\/a>, this just isn’t that big a deal. Let’s save all of the net neutrality hyperventilating for something a bit more serious, shall we?<\/p>\n

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Plenty of people, including Wired’s Threat Level blog and my friend Leigh, are up in arms about the fact that Rogers (a major Internet service provider, for you non-Canadians) is inserting messages to its customers on top of web pages such as the Google home page. Wired brings up the spectre of net neutrality, and … <\/p>\n

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