1) Learn to read. "It would also be true of an ISP that engages in other forms of editorial intervention, such as
throttling of certain applications chosen by the ISP, or filtering of content into fast (
and slow) lanes based on the ISP's commercial interests."
2) I
assume you meant Title II, not "chapter 2" (whose calling who dumb, again?). Title II is a piece of shit. On pg 43 of the
Communications Act of 1934, it states:
Yes. Because that's just what we need, to kill competition and create a literal monopoly for the same companies you so despise that want this revoked. You sure are a smart one, huh?
3) The fact you fell for the bait of my final point shows you really are a gullible one considering the point of it was to mock the """logic""" of some of you people for automagically branding someone as evil because there's an R next to their name or something or whatever your logic is, who knows anymore.
Either way, if you don't understand how data is transmitted or how bandwidth shaping is used then you aren't exactly allowed to have an opinion in the first place. This is just to let you (and others) know your opinion is stupid and doesn't matter. Reading some sensationalist article from the corporate media doesn't mean you have an opinion, it means you're stupid. Because hint: all those sensationalist claims you all have been making are something that
ANTITRUST LAWS would deal with should they actually happen (y'all actually think they're going to start putting the net into little packages like Portugal has? LMAO.
PORTUGAL DOESN'T HAVE ANTITRUST LAWS.
Anyways, bandwidth shaping is already in place, it always has been, and it's a complex matter that requires lots of computers to sort the data and keep it going right very fast. if we didn't have bandwidth shaping the internet would be a fraction of the speed it is today because data would not be prioritized in an efficient way to make optimum use of data transmission speeds through-out the internet.
The best visual aid I can think of is that if the internet was a 6 lane highway, you have everyone driving regular cars, businesses driving semi trucks, and media corporations driving a barge with wheels on it that takes up 3 or 4 lanes at a time. There are enough of these barges to make up about 80% of all internet traffic.
You wind up with network congestion, traffic jams - sub-optimal performance. Planned data shaping means these dudes driving the huge barges get special lanes made that they pay to use so that their massive needs aren't interfering with us and less traffic jams happen. It also allows extra money for network infrastructure upgrades but the bosses will probably just spend the profit on bonuses.
Sounds really scary right? YouTube and Facebook and porn sites just don't want to pay for all the network they use, which is like 80% of the internet traffic. It wont raise costs for YOU since you aren't using the data. THEY are sending the data to you.
This is why your download speed is always much faster than your upload speed - because YOU aren't the one sending the traffic through the internet, its whatever site you access.
So, again, any idiots pretending you are going to have to buy access packages are pretending the real internet is the same as cheapo cellular prepaid plans that do media bundles. Trust me, they will move you away from unlimited broadband long before they start charging you for access packages.
Final point: The internet wasn't worse 3 years ago before we had it.
If anything there is more censorship now than there was then so "freedom of speech" (or in this case "keep the internet open and free!" is a moot point.
But hey, you give it a nice shot, but a little advice? Don't give your opinion on things you clearly know nothing about.
That goes for you and the other ~76% of the population.
edit: Almost forgot:
Merry Christmas!