ISPs already offer different packages of service. It would not be hard for them to ask users to pay for certain content in faster lines especially when major companies like Netflix, Google, and Apple refuse to pay.
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FCC Has Voted to Repeal Net Neutrality Rules
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The internet was a different place prior to 2 years ago, and is continuing to change on a consistent basis. There is one thing that is for sure, allowing ISPs to control the internet has no potential to do anything positive for anyone but shareholders
You’re welcome. Now if you don’t like an ISP’s policies you can hurt them more, rather than just “put up with it”. Pushes for more competition.
"Here, we built you a road, please take care of it."
[road ages and needs patching, but you refuse to do it on principle]
...8 years later...
"LOOK AT THIS CRAPPY ROAD YOU GAVE US!! CORRUPTION!!!
Name the crime. Our courts don’t operate on feelings.
Imagine, if you will, that I'm an idiot (it really doesn't take much imagination). Would one of you take pity on me and give me a few of Net Neutrality's pros and cons? I can't find pieces that are unbiased enough to actually teach me something, and you folks are among the best-informed on the issue.
I'm not trolling. I want to understand what Pai's critics are on about, and what his supporters are on about. Links are fine, but please give me a pro and a con from a reputable source.
I'm not trolling. I want to understand what Pai's critics are on about, and what his supporters are on about. Links are fine, but please give me a pro and a con from a reputable source.
Remember when you couldn't FT over cellular? That was before net neutrality.
Are the fairies in your fantasy free market world allowed to use either bathroom?
Because you realize I can do broadband through Comcast, a single DSl provider capped at 10MPS or my cell phone, right?
Obstruction of justice trying to get Comey to “drop things” regarding Flynn, for one.
In other news, inspired by his Net Neutrality “win”, Trump has decided to sell stretches of US Interstates and allow the owners to charge whatever they want for tolls. Premium fees acceptible for ambulances - particularly in blue states.
Well, if the internet slowly becomes prohibitively expensive maybe that won't be so terrible. I'll just tell my employer I can't afford to check work email outside the office anymore.
If I can't afford Netflix, perhaps I'll open a video store where people can't rent "Stranger Things" on Blu-Ray. I'll call it "Blockbuster Video".
If I can't afford Netflix, perhaps I'll open a video store where people can't rent "Stranger Things" on Blu-Ray. I'll call it "Blockbuster Video".
Nope. 1/3 of the country only has access to a single ISP. You have nowhere else to go. Most of the country doesn't have more than 2 choices in a particular area. They don't have to compete.
And in fact with no net neutrality they don't have to. They can kill off competition simply be blocking or slowing the traffic.
Bit of an outsider to US politics. It sounds like it kind of sucks (backwards steps usually do) and that net neutrality is a nice thing to have.... but having seen the amount of panic over it that's what I'm struggling to understand. These nightmare scenarios I've heard of bandwidth limits and severely restricting competing sites etc... are they actually likely to happen? Or are they an extreme hypothetical? Did any of the nightmare scenarios happen between 1996 and 2015, and if not, what makes them more likely to happen now? Was much of a difference seen in the 2015-2017 period?
I'm on the side of "you shoud've kept that", I'm just trying to understand the panic as I have a US friend freaking out over it and such.
I'm on the side of "you shoud've kept that", I'm just trying to understand the panic as I have a US friend freaking out over it and such.
From? You mean toward. I find the idea that only the govt. = evil, corporates = good, preposterous. You and the rest of the republicans are going to have to learn the hard way not to trust private corporations to look out in your best interest.
They are right. Watch as the ISPs slowly change your internet packages. Or start to charge co. you use like Amazon, Google, YouTube more money...and those cost increases are passed onto you, the consumer.
What does bathrooms have to do with this? Point is, find a new provider if you hate them (seems logical) because more will be popping up.
So mobile providers could single-handedly (sort of) stop the use of imessage and facetime on iOS?
Youre exaggerating. Where we consumers pay the price, is that companys have to pay money to get faster lines, and have to get that back from consumers. Expect slight price raises for quite some services in 2018.
We will also notice slowdowns for some services who refuse to pay.
Thats what is going to happen in 2018, should this not be repealed by lawsuits etc.5
No, this time my ISP will charge me more to use Netflix vs using their streaming service or slow down Netflix while making their faster. There is no good to come of this vote.