Net Neutrality is dead, FCC voted to kill it.

[Prutfis]

Making the Internet Great Again.

Speeds and prices in the US are a joke.

 

[Prutfis]

No it isn't you don't have net neutrality in the EU.

Not entirely true. There is the Nordic Model

http://www.techpolicydaily.com/communications/comes-net-neutrality-nordic-model-best-approach/

 

[lecter]

Not entirely true. There is the Nordic Model

http://www.techpolicydaily.com/communications/comes-net-neutrality-nordic-model-best-approach/

I didn't mean "nowhere in the EU". But the EU didn't solve the problem.
There are many nations in which ISPs don't provide net neutrality.
Anyway, I'll read the article later.

 

[machidafan99]

Google fiber will save us all

 

[klnOmega]

The internet is safe in the EU

Lol

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/business/germany-facebook-google-twitter.html
Delete Hate Speech or Pay Up, Germany Tells Social Media Companies

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/19/technology/britain-encryption-privacy-hate-speech.html
After Terror Attacks, Britain Moves to Police the Web

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...ht-to-be-forgotten-fight-france-highest-court
Google takes right to be forgotten battle to France's highest court

 

[DespicablePeep]

we all use google to search, that shit aint neutral. but having a law to enforce neutrality would be great.

 

[Literally Bricked]

What part?

Companies cannot come together to price set or regionalize themselves.

 

[MeatheadMike]

Looks like having a VPN will become more and more important.

 

[second sight]

all of the hearings to pass this shit were done in private, how can anyone pretend like they know whats going on. hell the head of the FCC refused to even go to the hearings

 

[Scheme]

Net neutrality has been around for 2 years, and the Internet seemed to be doing just fine before that.

The amount of hysteria over net neutrality is insane. ISPs have very little incentive to actually fuck over customers/content providers. The root of the problem is the fact that there is a monopoly in certain zones on ISPs. However, that number is growing smaller each year, and we already have laws in effect to provide protection against monopolistic practices.

Net neutrality just allows the US government to intervene in ISP practices, making this less efficient and more costly on the ISPs who have been pretty hammered by things like Netflix changing the scale of the Internet greatly. Also it allows the US government to have more of a say into what is 'fair' and 'unfair'. So you've essentially shifted your trust from the ISP to the US government.

Now I'm not against most of net neutrality, in fact I support it for the most part. There's just consequences of being labelled at Title II service that are not in line with what everyone is claiming for net neutrality. Ones that hurt both large and small ISPs, which at the end of the day will cost consumers either way. The barrier to entry to becoming an ISP is so gigantically high, that anything that hurts small ISPs is exponentially worse for the market.

ISPs have gotten so much shit when the real fact is that 20 years ago, the internet was mostly static documents. Nowadays we have 4K streaming and sites like Netflix have completely shattered the traditional throughput of the Internet, which ISPs have had to build around.

 

[Aegon Spengler]

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/20/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-reveal-plans-to-dismantle-net-neutrality.html

• Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will reveal his plans on Tuesday to fully dismantle the Obama-era net neutrality rules, according to Politico

 

[hillelslovak87]

Comcast gave us a 1tb per month data cap, without any real explanation, without our consent or approval, not even within our contracts, BEFORE the Ajeet regime entered the FCC. I cant imagine the crazy shit they will do next.

I also cant wait to see how much Republican resistance there is to restoring freedom on the internet when the next Democratic majority and or president proposes reinstating net neutrality, and all the other things that would put internet back under title 3.

 

[Trotsky]

There is an iron curtain descending over us

Orange Curtain

But seriously, voting against one's own interests: Exhibit A.

Let's be real though, this is exhibit ZZXZXZ.

 

[D3thr0n3d K1ng]

Companies cannot come together to price set or regionalize themselves.

Why cant they?

 

[D3thr0n3d K1ng]

edit

 

[HomerThompson]

Why cant they?

Seriously, Comcast and Time Warner cable have already done this.

 

[D3thr0n3d K1ng]

Seriously, Comcast and Time Warner cable have already done this.

People think that if the companies arent coming together for an announced yearly "NATIONAL PRICE FIXING AND COLLUSION MEETING" and announcing it to the public that they arent doing this.

lel

 

[HomerThompson]

People think that if the companies arent coming together for a yearly "NATIONAL PRICE FIXING AND COLLUSION MEETING" and announcing it to the public that they arent doing this.

lel

It's the same burden of proof they demand for anything related to Trump as well. Maybe even worse than that.

 

[FIMN]

The barrier to entry to becoming an ISP is so gigantically high, that anything that hurts small ISPs is exponentially worse for the market.

I'm struggling to reconcile this statement with the small ISPs being heavily pro NN, whereas the large ones are anti.

 

[VivaRevolution]

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/20/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-reveal-plans-to-dismantle-net-neutrality.html

• Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will reveal his plans on Tuesday to fully dismantle the Obama-era net neutrality rules, according to Politico

I hope someone does something stupid, to let these arrogant cunts know, that there is a line, and people die when you cross it.