Picture via youngthousands Today, Ajit Pai, the former Verizon lawyer picked by Trump to run the FCC, killed net neutrality. Pai said that after receiving millions of comments from consumers and talking to small businesses, he's confident that allowing corporations to control access to the Internet is a good idea. Advocates for repealing net neutrality call this a "light-touch" regulatory approach, because they are stupid.
I asked my 35 year old about that yesterday, he was of the opinion that Comcast controls most of the backhaul, so setting up a "new" ISP won't change what happens upstream.
I don't think this is so much about privacy and censorship as it is about "revenue enhancement" for the ISPs and telecoms. This is how they'll stop the tide of "cord cutters", people who ditch cable TV with the expectation they can lower their bill by switching to online only viewing with Netflix, Hulu, ect ect.... Any online service that is seen as a competitor to their CATV offerings will be moved to an internet "toll road". Oh, you'll be able to see and do all the things you can now, you'll just have to PAY MORE for it.
Russbots are right here in the thread with us! I think we should take the opportunity to ask them about Russian language, culture, and politics... It's only fair, since they've taken such a strong interest in our language, culture, and politics, right?
Fucking HATE that faux-nerd douchecanoe. Fuck I hope everything terrible that is allowed under the rules for commenting radicals happens to him. Slowly.
Oh it's Bill Gates with even more legislative lobbying power. Microsoft ruled what was on our PCs, but the telcos ruled telephone and TV, then took internet by default.
Yes most government and non-profit orgs get special rates from the local ISP, but the bigger point is that they have to use the same ISPs as the rest of us, and are subject to the same traffic regulation rules/laws as, you guessed it, the rest of us. I also don't suspect your average government bureaucrat is wise enough to tell if his/her internet is being fuxxor'd with, and the ones that are wise enough are likely bought off.As for local regulation, I wouldn't be surprised if they already have some kind of law on the books that limited that..... remember States Rights when it suits, Free Market Solutions when it doesn't!
Clyburn's got a point. This whole time I've yet to hear a single example of how codifying the way things were caused any harm to the telcoms. Not. One. Example. It's always "It's stifling innovation!" Then you ask "How?," and there's nothing but crickets.
It's stifling their ability to innovate ways to stuff commercials in, the way they do with their worthless TV service.
I can picture the marketing material now.. a stock picture of some smiling woman looking confidently at a tablet, with some copy about how "now I can get the plan that's right for me"...
It will lead to innovation though.. there will probably be a flood of businesses opening on the borders, selling access to Canadian and Mexican internet.
ISPs have regional monopolies so they have no incentive whatsoever to do this and are free to roger their customers without lubrication.
the Opera browser has a free VPN functionality also.
I asked my 35 year old about that yesterday, he was of the opinion that Comcast controls most of the backhaul, so setting up a "new" ISP won't change what happens upstream.
Compulsory mail in ballots for national elections, problem solved.
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I don't think this is so much about privacy and censorship as it is about "revenue enhancement" for the ISPs and telecoms. This is how they'll stop the tide of "cord cutters", people who ditch cable TV with the expectation they can lower their bill by switching to online only viewing with Netflix, Hulu, ect ect.... Any online service that is seen as a competitor to their CATV offerings will be moved to an internet "toll road". Oh, you'll be able to see and do all the things you can now, you'll just have to PAY MORE for it.
Maybe not dead yet. Over 20 states filed lawsuits to stop the changes. https://twitter.com/divinit...
"Apparently the article's first sentence didn't register with you."
Let me point to something that will perhaps register more strongly with others.
The son of the president is reading from the same, deranged set of talking points:
"The president's son misspelt net neutrality and wrongly suggested that the chairman of the FCC had been appointed by Obama"
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Russbots are right here in the thread with us! I think we should take the opportunity to ask them about Russian language, culture, and politics... It's only fair, since they've taken such a strong interest in our language, culture, and politics, right?
Fucking HATE that faux-nerd douchecanoe. Fuck I hope everything terrible that is allowed under the rules for commenting radicals happens to him. Slowly.
Oh it's Bill Gates with even more legislative lobbying power. Microsoft ruled what was on our PCs, but the telcos ruled telephone and TV, then took internet by default.
Yes most government and non-profit orgs get special rates from the local ISP, but the bigger point is that they have to use the same ISPs as the rest of us, and are subject to the same traffic regulation rules/laws as, you guessed it, the rest of us. I also don't suspect your average government bureaucrat is wise enough to tell if his/her internet is being fuxxor'd with, and the ones that are wise enough are likely bought off.As for local regulation, I wouldn't be surprised if they already have some kind of law on the books that limited that..... remember States Rights when it suits, Free Market Solutions when it doesn't!
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Fuckit, I'm pretty much dead already.
Clyburn's got a point. This whole time I've yet to hear a single example of how codifying the way things were caused any harm to the telcoms. Not. One. Example. It's always "It's stifling innovation!" Then you ask "How?," and there's nothing but crickets.
It's stifling their ability to innovate ways to stuff commercials in, the way they do with their worthless TV service.
I can picture the marketing material now.. a stock picture of some smiling woman looking confidently at a tablet, with some copy about how "now I can get the plan that's right for me"...
It will lead to innovation though.. there will probably be a flood of businesses opening on the borders, selling access to Canadian and Mexican internet.
Whaddya find? (I just made it up, haha)