Content providers are already charged for the amount of bandwidth that is served. You and I are charged for receiving it. The transmission is billed on both ends. And it’s billed according to the “burden” of the content delivered—the speed of the connection.
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Net Neutrality Rules Officially End Today as Democrats 'Less Than 50 Votes' From Advancing Petition in the House
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Content providers are already charged for the amount of bandwidth that is served. You and I are charged for receiving it. The transmission is billed on both ends. And it’s billed according to the “burden” of the content delivered—the speed of the connection.
It would appear that you missed the point of why I said that in the first place.
It appeared your point was that Obama's Net Neutrality resulted in you getting a new ISP. If that wasn't your point, what was it?
Agreed, but some politicians take lying and deceit to greater extremes than others.
Well, see, you made a statement that was demonstrably false (that government regulation is “the barrier” to market entry) and so I demonstrated that it was false, particularly under Title II regulation which supposedly “crippled” infrastructure spending (it didn’t).
And before you inevitably say it, it wasn’t even a huge cable company like Comcast or Charter that entered the market here.
Most people have access to all the major wireless carriers and MVNOs offering broadly comparable features.
In many markets there’s few and sometimes only one game in town when it comes to true high speed internet.
This is why NN matters. The providers can’t be trusted to act fairly, responsibly and to self regulate.
https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-10-201A1_Rcd.pdf
Maybe I should ask the FCC why they lie then?
Where is the change of heart? Freedom includes the freedom of speech to oppose ignorant liberal brats. Those privileged brats can protest on their own time. They don't have any right to protest during working hours. None of us do.
You really think that the bandwidth is the problem?
People who control the bandwidth have a lot of power that can be utilized in serveral ways.
Your forgetting that most to the US really doesn't have a choice on ISP provider.
It is one 'cable ISP' or some slow DSL service.
That is not competition.
If we did, how would that make your life better. Your day-to-day life. Specifically.
Ah, I see the classic "Economy is so great! Ever since January 20th, 2017!" Seems to me like we're still riding on the Obama economy, along with people still working 3 part time jobs. Sounds to me like you need to visit some other news sources besides Fox and Breitbart, along with developing some actual critical thinking skills. It's a real shame many of these red states have cut funding from education so much where we're no longer providing students vital critical thinking skills.
Where is the change of heart? Freedom includes the freedom of speech to oppose ignorant conservative brats. Those privileged brats can protest on their own time. They don't have any right to protest during working hours. None of us do. See what I did there? Give me a break.
I see the general conservative news talking points about NN are on full blast today. And I see actual facts, as usual, are not swaying these people about the abuses ISPs did to consumers prior to the 2015 legislation. The whole reason that legislation was brought forth was because of the ISPs abusing their position in the marketplace and the general outcry from the public asking for them to be regulated. We had an actual chairman who decided to listen to the people instead of Pai who is clearly ignoring consumers and listening to the ISPs. Give it time, we won't see drastic change for a few years as the ISPs aren't stupid enough to enact "packages" akin to Portugal's ISPs who charge to view various websites. You can be sure they'll start off slow.
How would you like your electric or water provider to provide "fast" and "slow" lanes? Rolling blackouts? Here, we'll charge you an extra $50 so you can be prioritized in our grid! Low water pressure an issue during high water usage times? Here, spend this extra $25 to prioritize you in our water delivery grid!
WWI and WWII era presidents are rolling in their graves right now from the bout of facism we're currently going through. It should be clear to anybody here how anti-consumer this administration is, and how much disdain they have for the common people, and the media reporting on their BS. Just the sham of a tax bill they rammed through should be clear evidence of not caring for the average Macrumors member unless you're apart of the 1%. Trickle down has been, and always will be, a farce.
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The fact that you can label someone partisan while lacking any self-awareness in the rest of your diatribe is quite astounding. Well done.
I love it when liberals realized that Trump won the election they started screaming that the result was going to be that he would single handedly destroy the economy and the markets and it would be completely his fault.
Fast forward a little over a year. Economy booming, markets at all time highs, unemployment at all time lows (especially for minority’s), etc. Yep, you guessed it, it’s all because of what Obama did. Even though for eight years they screamed that it wouldn’t get any better than it was because Bush had damaged the economy so bad that even Obama was limited at how much he could fix it.
It would be pathetic if it wasn’t so predictable.
Guilty. I am partisan. I want USA and this president to succeed and I don’t Let hollywood or media or peer pressure from people my age dictate how I think.
I wanted obama to succeed too, but he didn’t and I knew hoping too much would’ve been a waste of effort. Because HIs heart wasn’t in it. His heart was in showing up on late night shows and becoming a smiling meme
And when I am presented with uncomfortable evidence , evidence as the operative word, Whuch has contradicted that which I thought I believed but discovered that I knew nothing of, i re evaluate ... I don’t just double down screeching my emotions, think it’s fact, and call it a day.
I am oh so guilty of all of this
Oh?
“Ms13 is really bad”
Trump: “they are animals”
Liberals: “we need to be more tolerant of ms13. They’re people too. These rapists and carvers and murderers, they have feelings”
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“We need to make America great again” -bill clinton
“Well yea. Improving the country is called progress” -liberals
“We need to make America great again” -trump
“What kinda crap is that? How pessimistic can he get? I wanna go back to Obama Utopia”
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“We need to do something about border control” -bill clinton
“Of course, that’s national security and our sovereignty at stake” -liberals
“We’re gonna build a wall” -trump
“What a racist! Why would he wanna do that?”
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Are you seeing a pattern? Probably not .. sigh
So if all of those start trending in the other direction over the next couple of years who gets credit?
It’s not affordable thanks to government regulations so I don’t have it.
So those snowflakes decide what an employer allows and doesn't allow their own employees to do? Employer allows their employees to knee, get over it and find something else to cry about. Like maybe go complain how the other 99% of companies out there don't even have the pledge at the start of the workday.