I saw on social media that the FCC has sent Net Neutrality to Congress, and if they pass it Trump gets the deciding vote.
Is this worth getting wound up over?
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I woke from a horrible dream where the entire internet was owned by Photobucket.
Depends on whether you think government should be involved in regulating internet content. I would honestly rather have it in the hands of Congress than some unelected regulators if I had to choose between the 2 evils.
I’d rather let the market decide and instead on regulating, Congress figures out a way to increase ISP competition so consumers can choose. Not sure how that can happen when infrastructure expenditures are accounted in the billions.
I don’t think .gov should have anything to do with the internet. At all. Government interference has never, ever, made things better.
I always get concerned when the government proposes something that’s “Neutral”, “Common”, Equal" or “Fair”.
Just consider Common Core, where high grades are lowered for some, and lower grades get increased for others. I recall something from the past called The Fairness Doctrine and equal time requirements for broadcasters.
For the web, I kind of like the Wild West appeal to it. A wide open place of pure hell or great ecstasy, ignorance or knowledge. I personally should have started my own version of Facebook®. I would have called it: InYourFacebook®, a hell-hole of non-stop written and visual attacks; the MMA or Thunderdome of Social Media. It might have been fun…
Net Neutrality sounds so good. Calling it Public Bathroom Internet is more akin to what it really is. Bandwith becomes something that is wide open to whoever wants to piss and crap all over it and you get left with the mess. Neither side is perfect, but to say that being against Net Neutrality is evil isn’t really helping things. Mark Cuban is against it, not a died in the wool theocrat conservative.
That’s called 4chan.org
Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech
And I’m not really grasping your explanation. “being against Net Neutrality is evil isn’t really helping things.” Clarify? 
False.
/b/ and infinity-chan are the true final frontiers.
How about this: Net Neutrality ensures Shall-Issue Internet Access for everyone. Repealing Net Neutrality allows ISPs to become May Issue. Large corporations, transcending states, have a wider-sweeping influence than a state-by-state law, and if you want to carry a 9mm or larger, you have to pay a monthly fee. Smaller ISPs can still technically be Shall Issue, but with nothing larger than .32 ACP. If you don’t like having to pay the extra monthly fee, you can always go to a .32…
ISPs have no incentive to do that. In fact the better analogy would be… So you want to shoot a mini-gun! Hellz to the yeah!! Bring your Amex.
ISPs want you using the service as much as possible and they know you have a finite sum of money to do so. They want to keep your faucet running.
On the other hand, once the .gov get’s it’s claws into something as big as the Internet then it’s all over. Then they can regulate your entire life because it will be on the Internet… but they need to be sure all the citizens are fully connected first.
The ISPs give, invent, offer for sale.
The .gov takes away.
It has always been that way.
Just leave my vidya and dirty pitchers alone and we’ll be cool.
On the other hand, once the .gov get’s it’s claws into something as big as the Internet then it’s all over.
Lots of comments in this thread similar to this one.
I should point we have been operating under .gov “Net Neutrality” since day 1. Yep, 110 baud modems to 200+Mbs. teletypes to 4K video on demand. All on .gov watch.
I really, [b]REALLY[/b] hope I’m wrong. But I stand by what I’ve posted.
How do you figure that?
Cause it is true?
Today the FCC voted to repeal the current Net Neutrality rules. .gov is now OUT of the internet, not INTO it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/technology/net-neutrality-repeal-vote.html
Its not a big deal, but this will allow YouTube to restrict certain content or limit it from search results. Facebook could restrict content based on any number of subjects like during an election, they could push the candidate Facebook favors and restrict any news, stories or post about the other. Google could restrict certain sites from appearing in the search results unless they paid to have them “stand out”. AT&T could restrict content from companies like Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner etc and vice versa.
Apparently this all has to do with terrorism and national security as does everything else this day in age. But I doubt it will come to anything today or tomorrow. Most companies like Google, Verizon, AT&T, Facebook, YouTube have already been found guilty of doing these sort of things and have each paid fines. Now they wont pay fines.
If you ISP doesn’t like porn, they will restrict those websites for you, if they don’t like conservative websites, they could restrict those as well.
This is already allowed.
The end of Net Neutrality means your ISP can block access to m4carbine.net, or charge you more to reach it at slower speeds.
totally agree, I might have worded it wrong but, companies get fined today for steering an after the end of NN, they will be able to do it freely and like you said, charge for it.