Meredith Whittaker

And the lady with the couch. And the conceit there, which felt really simple to me at the time, is everyone is buzzing about net neutrality. And I was a Kool-Aid drinker. I still think the value underlying that kind of mythology, let's say, like, yes, we should, you know, we should not have one gatekeeper deciding, you know, which news source, right?

And the lady with the couch. And the conceit there, which felt really simple to me at the time, is everyone is buzzing about net neutrality. And I was a Kool-Aid drinker. I still think the value underlying that kind of mythology, let's say, like, yes, we should, you know, we should not have one gatekeeper deciding, you know, which news source, right?

This is, you know, this is old school common sense. It goes back to Western Union, who there's a little, you know, in the US would refuse to carry telegrams from political candidates the company didn't support, right? So there's like real, there's a real like bedrock precedent here. And I was like, yeah, of course, we need net neutrality. But, you know, neutrality itself is a really wafty sort of

This is, you know, this is old school common sense. It goes back to Western Union, who there's a little, you know, in the US would refuse to carry telegrams from political candidates the company didn't support, right? So there's like real, there's a real like bedrock precedent here. And I was like, yeah, of course, we need net neutrality. But, you know, neutrality itself is a really wafty sort of

This is, you know, this is old school common sense. It goes back to Western Union, who there's a little, you know, in the US would refuse to carry telegrams from political candidates the company didn't support, right? So there's like real, there's a real like bedrock precedent here. And I was like, yeah, of course, we need net neutrality. But, you know, neutrality itself is a really wafty sort of

It's a loose concept that needs to be augured in some type of benchmark against which we can assess. You need to quantify it. And then you just flung into the abyss of philosophy the second you try to do that. But we started and it was... I would say it was not necessarily built to succeed.

It's a loose concept that needs to be augured in some type of benchmark against which we can assess. You need to quantify it. And then you just flung into the abyss of philosophy the second you try to do that. But we started and it was... I would say it was not necessarily built to succeed.

It's a loose concept that needs to be augured in some type of benchmark against which we can assess. You need to quantify it. And then you just flung into the abyss of philosophy the second you try to do that. But we started and it was... I would say it was not necessarily built to succeed.

It was built as a sort of hypothesis project where we stood up three servers that hosted open source measurement clients. And the thing that we were doing was putting...

It was built as a sort of hypothesis project where we stood up three servers that hosted open source measurement clients. And the thing that we were doing was putting...

It was built as a sort of hypothesis project where we stood up three servers that hosted open source measurement clients. And the thing that we were doing was putting...

Servers that were all kind of configured the same that gave each client a dedicated slice of resources and then way over-provisioned the uplink between the server and the switch so that we could all, for all intents and purposes, guarantee that any artifacts that were detected through the measurement methodology, like some TCP RTT or something,

Servers that were all kind of configured the same that gave each client a dedicated slice of resources and then way over-provisioned the uplink between the server and the switch so that we could all, for all intents and purposes, guarantee that any artifacts that were detected through the measurement methodology, like some TCP RTT or something,

Servers that were all kind of configured the same that gave each client a dedicated slice of resources and then way over-provisioned the uplink between the server and the switch so that we could all, for all intents and purposes, guarantee that any artifacts that were detected through the measurement methodology, like some TCP RTT or something,

were not interfered with by our infrastructure and weren't suffering for bandwidth, right?

were not interfered with by our infrastructure and weren't suffering for bandwidth, right?

were not interfered with by our infrastructure and weren't suffering for bandwidth, right?

Yeah, and that's very expensive.

Yeah, and that's very expensive.

Yeah, and that's very expensive.