Posted on 12/14/2017 4:27:18 PM PST by Kaslin
“Downloads will never be throttled or tariffed. Can’t be censored since people can just download the same thing somewhere else.”
You are missing the point. Downloads is NOT your “right”, you get what you pay for. If the supplier is asking for money to have you download, you better pay or switch supplier. It is that simple in free market economy.
“If ISPs are going to do all these bad things in the absence of Net Neutrality regulations,”
You are playing into their hands. It is NOT a “bad thing” to charge for your services. Do you scream at your cable TV provider for charging you for HBO? Why shouldn’t internet providers do the same ON THEIR DAMN NETWORKS!!!
You want fast internet access, pay up. Don’t go crying to the nanny state to provide you with free netflix bandwidth. Your bandwidth costs company money in infrastructure... besides cost issues, this is a FREE MARKET issue. A business should not be restricted to do what it needs to maximize its value for its owners. If enough customers don’t like it, there will be less demand. Very simple this free market concept it, except to libtards.
I don’t buy HBO or any of those channels. I don’t want them.
Exactly. And you don’t protest that the network aren’t including HBO and aren’t “neutral” and restricting “your” channels. Same with internet access. If netflix wants to stream terabytes of their crap on the company’s networks, the company has every right to throttle/stop it.
Everyone except for the cable and cell network companies are for net neutrality. People too. It is not a Democrat vs Republican thing.
It found that 83 percent overall favored keeping the FCC rules, including 75 percent of Republicans, 89 percent of Democrats and 86 percent of independents.
I also listened to 4 sides of the net neutrality vote yesterday on C-SPAN. The two commissioners voting to keep neutrality were full of ad hom and invective, and really bogus arguments. One of them claimed that the big media censored Ferguson and the "hands up don't shoot" hash tag and only social media made possible by net neutrality got the word out.
The other two commissioners gave rational legal arguments against heavy handed regulation, changing standards, and regulatory uncertainty. It is even worse than their depiction. Net "neutrality" is nothing more than a way for leftist lawyers to attack the cable companies and squeeze them for money.
I realize downloads are not my right (or more specifically HS or 4HD streaming video are not my right). Not only that, but I got rid of my TV decades ago and have absolutely no interest in the dreck and filth that they are streaming in high def.
Uhm, no. Exactly the opposite. The two main Internet providers in my area either have outright monthly caps on data downloads or hidden caps they don't advertise.
Cableone will automatically upgrade your account to the next higher plan if you go over 3 times in a 12 month period.
Centurylink (who I currently have) claims they have no caps but they actually do and will notify you if you go over. I haven't checked lately but when I went over several times, I received a nasty piece of mail and had to upgrade to an uncapped business plan for $100 a month.
But that has nothing to do with "neutrality" as defined in Obama's rules. To clarify what I said: "downloads will never be throttled or tarrifed based on their type".
That is impossible due to encryption and source obfuscation, both very easy to implement. The only thing that will (maybe) be capped or throttled based on type is streaming video from identified sources (e.g. netflix).
Why anyone is standing up for the right of netflix unlimited streaming of trashy video content is beyond me. It certainly does not bode well for the country.
You can be sure that if AT&T is going to throttle Netflix then they won't do it because it is "trashy", but because they own a competing service DitecTV On Demand selling you the same trash.
Oh, Netflix is going up in price for sure now. The NN zealots have given them a great excuse to do it and shift the blame to the FCC.
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