All that I know is that our little wireless internet provider that we get rural service thru is connected back to AT&T backbone. I am supposed to get around 6gb download.
At around 7pm or so every night someone at AT&T diverts our bandwidth to fulfill some other bigger player than our little rural provider because our service dies and I am lucky to get 500kb download speed. Our provider knows they are doing it but is running into a brick wall with AT&T.
Is this something that net neutrality was supposed to fix or was this just all BS?
Net Neutrality solves nothing.
The alternative of letting AT&T and their oligarchy club do whatever they wish also solves nothing and in fact makes matters worse.
Look at BitChute’s statement for why they exist and why they are growing:
“Throughout 2015 and 2016 several prominent YouTubers reported a loss of video monetization when covering certain topics or for having particular opinions. YouTube claimed this was due to tighter enforcement of existing rules, even if true this will restrict the type of content that gets made and is a form of censorship.”
“Here we believe people should be able to express their opinions and choose their topics. If existing services cannot allow that, then let’s make some that will. The question is, how to disrupt a platform as well established as YouTube? It cannot be on their terms; we think we might have an answer, decentralization by torrents and tailored matchups for monetization. *More on the monetization to come soon.”
“Rather than needing massive data centers with humongous bandwidth costs, torrents depend on many people sharing videos from their home computers. While this has been possible for many years through bit torrent, bit torrent applications have steep learning curves; this site aims to make the torrent experience seamless by working entirely in the web browser.”
In effect, technology makes each person and their devices their own data center.
Read #29 of this thread for how to participate in a discussion leading to an enduring solution.