i thought the vote was tomorrow not today.
r.i.p. alleria. 1997-2017. blizzard ruined alleria forever. blizz assassinated alleria's character and appearance.
i will never forgive you for this blizzard.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning.
-Kujako-
It seems you don't understand. Net neutrality ensured that anyone could have open access to the internet, and considered access to the internet like a constitutionally enshrined right. But since it was just a regulation, it's far more fragile and easier to get rid of.
Internet companies will have the right to now bar people and companies from use of the internet, and internet companies already hold monopolies in a lot of areas. Just "having money" won't cut it any more with net neutrality scrapped. You were complaining earlier in the thread about providers causing right wing censorship by banning people from their sites. Getting rid of net neutrality - I repeat - gives internet companies the ability to ban people and companies from their service, which is gonna be funny as fuck when it turns around and bars certain people from the internet and they start screaming about censorship like they do with twitter. Internet companies already squish the competition, and again, have monopolies in most areas, so RIP everyone having free and open access to the internet
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I'm looking forward to getting Breitbart access away from people personally, that's one up side to the end of NN.
2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning.
-Kujako-
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning.
-Kujako-
Okay, conservatives need to cut the "small business is a virtue" mentality. It made sense in the past, but the 21st century is a battle of economies of scale. If a new small business has an innovative idea, I would expect them to be acquired. They would have to have an extremely great idea to become the next Facebook or Google.
Last edited by PC2; 2017-12-13 at 05:09 PM.
Interesting wee thing I found about Net Neutrality.
I'm a fairly regular visitor to the website SFDebris, which just does reviews/whatever of mostly Sci Fi stuff with a bit of other things. Being a review site, YouTube is pretty much a no go because everything is instaflagged because YouTube has no idea how to handle fair use, so they use other, smaller video players. Originally this was blip, blip closed down because they had no money, I think they jumped between a few before settling on vid.me before that announced it was closing down and have finally settled on vimeo because it meets all of their criteria.
One of the criteria was this:
In other words, they needed a video site that was big enough to not be screwed over by Net Neutrality being repealed. The owner of the site didn't state this in a political way, merely in an economic "this is a thing I need to consider to ensure the longevity of my site" way. This is the "innovation" of Net Neutrality repeal here. A website having to reject smaller video sites in favour of larger ones.-likely survival of net neutrality repeal (they're large enough that they would likely be able to prevent degradation of playback by throttling ISPs)
(Full statement from SF Debris here)
Netflix pays ISPs to host their servers in a datacenter, while their UI is housed at Amazon’s AWS. What you are asking for already exists, while the result of what you are supporting, would mean your Netflix menu will be slowed down, since AWS would be impacted, if Wal-Mart paid for priority over Amazon.
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It’s more fun than that. Every time you hit a page you posted on, you’d be paying to read your own post... over... and over... and over again...
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
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Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi