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FCC Expected to Repeal Net Neutrality Rules in Vote Next Month
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How are you subsidizing netflix? What you are paying your ISP has no effect on the cost of a netflix subscription...
Just wait until your ISP throttles your connection to Drudge Report, Fox News and Breitbart. You Trumpanzees built this.
And yet you trust our current administration in government to take care of it all. *facepalm
If a store refuses service to a customer, they have that right. Same as any website you use. If you don't like it? DON"T USE IT OR SUPPORT IT. It's that simple.
I'll explain it this way: have a website called "comcastsucks.com"? Well, Comcast has just now blocked your access to that site because it doesn't find it appropriate, rather than treating all traffic as equal. Scary reality considering the climate of our politicians screaming "fake news" at everything and Fox News being a propaganda machine.
First, Rockford, population 150,000, is not little. Second, it's 90 miles from Chicago along a heavily traveled tollway. Don't act like it's out in the sticks.
EXACTLY! You are paying for data not for accessing services. This potential repeal will make us consumers pay FOR BOTH.
If ISPs are so evil, then why are you using their bandwidth?
Got it...not only do you not understand what it means, you've turned your belief into some sort of religious cause to fight against evil.
Well in the non-mythical/real word net neutrality is good for all of us to demand and expect from our ISPs.
While you don't understand this now, you will in a world where the ISPs have complete control over your internet access. That is all the content you upload or download, plus the cost of how fast their controlled data gets to you.
The majority of municipalities are currently open to others coming into their market. The reality is, they don't want to. Google could come into any market they want but they aren't. Because they can't make it profitable.
What you want already exists. There's no real hard set requirement barring other ISPs from coming in to any area already serviced by another. Instead, they don't because they can't do it in a financially viable way.
Net neutrality or not, this won't change and is wholly unrelated.
Just to note, Japan is roughly the size of California, and is composed essentially of a mountain range sticking out of the Pacific Ocean. Running wires there means laying cable across ravines and between islands. There are practically no flat areas convenient for WISP. Bringing broadband to the majority of that country is a non-trivial task.
I forgot. We live in a country where the corporate world does what's best for the consumer. So what could possibly go wrong by repealing net neutrality? Surely corporate America won't screw us over.
First off, there wouldn't even be an internet with out the US government.
The US government has made a lot of decisions regarding telecommunications over the last 100 years. There have been regulations you could argue have hurt consumers, and also some that have protected users and ended up providing a better service. The Carterfone decision is one worth reading about.
What do you mean by REAL Capitalism? Unchecked capitalism with out regulations could be an absolute disaster, just like if government having full control over all business would be too.
And one more point, I'm pretty sure I remember reading that there is a reasonably large amount of people in America that have access to only one ISP, which means that there isn't any competition for a lot of people. And the kicker is the reason for this is there are laws and regulations stopping ISPs and local governments from setting up competition in these places. Laws and regulations used by the very same people an companies that are lobbying to have Net neutrality rules dropped.
If you ever hear a politician talking about deregulation, be very wary. It's generally not deregulation, but a change in regulation that will benefit their financial supporters.
We, the public, have been paying a tax on every month's phone bill to provide a subsidy to telecoms to build more internet capacity in underserved areas, to the tune of many billions per year, for many years. Since the government has paid for a significant part of the infrastructure, we the public have the right to take it back--or at least receive suitable service for fees paid. Can't you see the need for balance in these relationships?
People also seem to forget that these companies got huge government subsidies to lay their cables across the US. In other words, my tax dollars, your tax dollars, etc. To claim that the cable companies own those lines are a joke. We the people own them since we helped pay for them. Tax dollars built these companies up and now they want to tell us to pound rock.
the internet in 1996 was very different than it is now. newgroups were a cesspit, and social media nonexistant. things change, companies build new products, new posting grounds emerge. I dont want child pron on facebook and gore on twitter so im glad internet controls have changed.
The point is the tech giants engage in egregious censorship today. This isn't a hypothetical - it is an observable fact. Cry me a river if the ISPs decide to do the same.
If you wanted half the country to give a rat's ass about your precious "free and open" Internet, maybe you shouldn't have dumped buckets of crap on their heads for the past 2 years. Maybe it was unwise to ban, block, throttle and censor everyone you disagreed with. They may have felt invested in the current Internet.
To 50% of the country, the Internet is already a place where data gets treated unequally. They know the Internet is anything but "neutral". It is a domain ruled by radical leftist authoritarians who police thought at every turn, and the censorship is only getting more severe as each day goes by.
Sadly, it'll probably just happen the opposite way where everything else is blocked.
Nope. Just checked through a friends ComCast connection. That site (it really is a site) works.
Do you have any more lies and FUD to create? I want real concrete examples and not out of your backside hypotheticals.
You missed his point completely. He is not saying that is what is occurring now. He was giving a scenario of what will happen. Zoom, right over the top of your head.
The left has such a wonderful mix of being dead wrong and smugly condescending at the same time. It's repugnant.
Learn to present arguments. You might actually convince someone of your point of view one day.
"Don't agree with me? You just don't understand, maaaaaaaaaaan. Drumpf is literally Adolf Hitler, maaaaaaan. If only you had a PhD in Caribbean Gender Neutral Pottery you'd understand, maaaaaaan!"
Talk about calling the kettle black. The arrogance is so deep you can taste the crap.
And your point? 150,000 is little. Being 2 hours from Chicago does NOT impact services available in the area (it is not a commuter town to Chicago).
My point is, the posts saying most people have at most 2 options is a blatant lie and just more of the FUD machine around this topic.