The fact that they are *able* to adopt a monopoly position and blackmail is itself a cons. of tech issues.
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Ignoring something as technically meaningful as hard/soft/non real-time simply because political problems arise = bad tech.
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The Internet has dealt quite well without hard-scheduled QoS for 40 years, despite the continued squawking of telco engineers.
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And massive rise in video, coming boom in IoT/VR/driverless cars/telesurgery doesn't merit reconsideration?
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Yes and no. If you wanna use that baby as a political punching bag, expect it to get punched.
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"human society more important than tech perf" = humanist. Because tech in practice just seeks better one step at time, not perf.
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We lose the possibility of decentralized systems, which in an age of cheap spying will kill millions. (Yes, a leap, but I can back it)
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To claim that is an argument for giving away money to telcos for no good technical reason is the height of moral bankruptcy.

