Net neutrality gone

[Hablion]

I believe isn't there a part in the change that prevents states from making laws to overturn it as well.

[Sinyc]

It was a fun ride guys, I'll see you on the other side.

See you in early 2015. At this points it's on Congress... you know the people WE elected to make decisions for us. Not the FCC when it comes to things they clearly don't understand.

Also, the marketing going into both sides is insane. We won't be getting Cable TV like packages for Internet because of this. If that ever happens, it was going to happen regardless. Never underestimate the greed of these corporations whose only concern is making money and turning a profit.

[cparle87]

Wow. That sounds awful.

So basically if it goes then ISPS can do some pretty shady stuff?

I hope it stays for you guys over there!

It's actually happened. ISPs noticed a huge amount of bandwidth was going through Netflix. So they throttled them. In layman's terms that means that if you or I wanted to watch Netflix, the episodes would take longer to load deliberately. The ISPs then went to Netflix and said 'pay us more to stop throttling you.' Obama didn't like it and passed net neutrality. Now Trump and his big business buddies are throwing it out. "Hey, we notice you play WoW. Throttled, unless you buy our super deluxe MMO package, only $5 a month on top of your existing bill!" Another 5 for youtube, another 5 for amazon, another 5 for facebook. Etc etc. There's nothing stopping them.

[SLSAMG]

America is a hyper-capitalist country. The copious amounts of greedy corporate fat cats are in abundance. In the end it was inevitable...

And thank fucking god I don't live there!

[DesoPL]

I got tired of this fucking drama... And glad it is over!

[WintersLegion]

Man they sure were effective at ignoring the wild mass of people telling them not to. One has to worry when the Government so blatantly ignores the will of the people.

What's worse is they aren't just ignoring that people are against it they are saying people are for it and using real peoples identities to fake comments that are in support of repealing it.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/net-neu...ts-prosecutor/

[Azadina]

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Yup, enjoy.

[SLSAMG]

That vote hasn’t happened yet, so why the thread?

Name your stakes, I'll give you 10-1 saying it'll pass...

[Sanguinezor]

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[Skayth]

Time for some good old street lynching of Pai.

actually, in this case, by simple condition of how the US was founded... this would actually not be against the law, since he is pushing his tyrannical laws upon the public without even being an elected official, and with more than 80% of the population for net neutrality.

[belfpala]

Don't cry over spilled milk. At the end of the day it is what it is.

Fatalism isn't a fun place to be. I tried it for a few years.

It's much better when heads aren't buried in sand hiding.

I only picked your post... because.

[schwarzkopf]

Don't cry over spilled milk. At the end of the day it is what it is.

And the end of the day, if you don't value your internet access more than some milk - that's fine.

But those of us who depend on it for our lives - it is a slightly more serious story.

[Dezerte]

Enlighten me please.. Is this for US only or world wide, that we in the EU have to PAY additional to use the internet?? Or what's the big deal about this?? Thanks

US only. Net neutrality in the EU is so far still protected.

[belfpala]

But those of us who depend on it for our lives - it is a slightly more serious story.

I don't depend on it for my life, but I'm about to enter a situation where my ISP could decide to block my website unless I fess up with some cash. I have other avenues of advertising, sure, but I also have a dark mind and I'd totally use that racketeering angle.

Just saying.

[Milchshake]

Who here did their part in fighting this thing? Who here is guilty of letting there nihilism ruin the internet

Well there was a national referendum with one candidate supporting NN. But she had emails.

[Stelio Kontos]

But those of us who depend on it for our lives - it is a slightly more serious story.

Let me guess, you depend on the internet to stay alive? I thought you were a dead man walking anyway. Your posts always drone on about how you're just waiting to die or somesuch.

[SLSAMG]

US only. Net neutrality in the EU is so far still protected.

For how long though? That's the million dollar question. Eventually Canada, the EU/UK will follow suit.

Canada will see change much quicker for obvious reasons (they don't have much competition either). The EU though? I'll give it < a decade.

[Zyky]

The bottom line is certain websites like Netflix or Hulu will probably invest in locating when a ISP is intentionally slowing traffic to their site and then they have a lawsuit on their hands vs whoever the ISP is because they're impeding on their business which is illegal.

[Linkedblade]

Well, I hope they keep their hands in their pockets but I'm not exactly optimistic since Comcast removed it's promise not to engage in any fuckery from it's website the day the Net Neutrality repeal was revealed and has been proven to be throttling netflix for a while now.

Netflix is a special case. They have integrated servers across many nodes of Comcast networks. Something which only Amazon else has

[belfpala]

Who here did their part in fighting this thing? Who here is guilty of letting there nihilism ruin the internet

I've posted comments throughout in support. Mine were apparently washed out by bots.