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U.S. Appeals Court Rules in Favor of FCC Net Neutrality Rules
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Quit making me feel insecure.
...Anubis?
Oh, well excuse the hell out of me for sleeping through Egyptology class, la de dah!
edit: yeah, that tongue in cheek sarcasm came across meaner than I meant it to.
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Doubtful. The internet relies on a vast infrastructure. This ruling protects the existing infrastructure and reinforces the idea that it is a utility, as it ought to be.
An elite net just isn't a feasible business proposition without an equally vast yet private infrastructure.
Anyway, big win for the internets.
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
Ronald Reagan
40th president of US (1911 - 2004)
Don't Like R.R. how about FUBAR, BOHICA, SNAFU? The Veterans Administration that can't get vets an appointment until after they die?
It's refreshing to see that you understand just how bad "Net Neutrality" is.
Sadly, the majority of those who've posted here supporting it, have either been tricked by the wording, or simply haven't spent the time to learn the truth, to learn what it's all about.
As is so often the case, heavily politicized, it's the liberal elitist power mongers that are hell bent on getting this approved. One quick read of this thread proves how successful they've been.
Say goodbye to Internet Access as we're currently enjoying it. By the time the masses wake up itll be far too late.
So tell us, Max, what's it actually about? What have you read about it that makes you so much more informed about its true intentions than the rest of us?
edit: oh hell, you won't reply. You never do. But for the benefit of people who don't assume everything's a conspiracy, and the government is always out to get them, this is the very digest version of how we got to this point.
Up until about 2006, all ISPs were classified under the Title II Communications Act as Communication Services, which had some fairly strict guidelines that had to be followed. Since the internet was primarily a telephone service, and telephone itself had been Title II'd since the 30's, it was only natural it inherited the same classification.
This changed around 2006 or so, when the FCC classified ISPs under the far less strict Information Services guidelines. This gave them a lot more freedom, and did grow the market a bit, but there was always one stipulation: that they had to adhere to net neutrality standards.
This worked just fine up until Netflix hit it big, and they, Verizon, and Comcast got into a big fight over bandwidth, and who owed what to whom for what, and blah blah blah. It eventually lead to Comcast throttling Netflix traffic over their network.
So some other things happened, people got sued, and Verizon (I believe, it's been a bit since I last read about this) took the FCC to court, saying they couldn't enforce net neutrality on them, since they were classified as Information Services. The courts agreed, saying that if the FCC wanted to do that, they'd have to reclassify them as Communications Services again.
...which the FCC did. This, rather amusingly, ended up getting a lot of the other big ISPs and telcos ticked off at Verizon, since their little legal gambit ended up with them pissing in everyone's cereal. Being reclassified put them under those stricter guidelines again. In the meantime, the FCC wrote new guidelines detailing exactly what net neutrality is. Despite the fact it been claimed that it was all done in secret, and blah blah blah, it was actual an open process, with close to a million people, from companies like Google all the way down to web designers, contributing to it. The end result was a, I think, 10 page guideline that can be summed up as "don't **** with the internet".
It can be summed up under the brightlines rules...
Now here we are. People are now screaming about government overstepping it's boundaries because the FCC is doing the job it's always done for the last 80 years.
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Oh, come on... Don't try and pretend like you've not aware of the vast left-wing conspiracies to usher in a new era of liberal darkness.
That's not net neutrality. If you want superior service, you can buy superior service. However, if you or I buy superior service all data regardless of what it is (movie, music, game, etc) or what website it comes from should be delivered at that superior speed.
If I buy 50/10 up/down service, then I get that speed regardless of what the data is or where it is from.
Damnit, man. You know you're not supposed to talk about this stuff outside the lodge...
Oops! Sorry, bro'. I just snorted another line off the butt of a Feminazi co-conspirator and I'm a little high right now, so I guess the party here at the lodge is getting a little out of hand. And now they're saying the Hill Dog killed a guy; we're probably gonna need a clean up crew sent over....
Damnit. not again. This is the 3rd conservative this week, isn't it? There's only so many times we can cover something like this up, especially during an election season. Good God...
Anyway, guess I'll be seeing you at the meeting tomorrow.
A falsis principiis proficisci abhinc, brother.
Well, to be honest, I wouldn't care much. Last time I checked, there were no aircraft engineers in the government. In Boeing and Airbus - hell yeah, many of them.