Posted on 12/14/2017 10:36:00 AM PST by ColdOne
The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to repeal net neutrality rules, over the objection of Democrats in Congress, Internet activists and online companies.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, Commissioner Michael O’Rielly, and Commissioner Brendan Carr, all Republicans, supported the proposed rollback of the Obama-era rules. Democratic Commissioners Mignon Clyburn and Jessica Rosenworcel opposed the change.
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The simplest thing to do is just see who cries the most. You’ll almost always see it’s the usual suspects. Either that or the Netflix’s and Amazon’s who want something for nothing.
“2018 will be a wonderful year.”
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I hope you’re right. I sincerely doubt it though.
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Yup. Ending NN is going to tick off a huge majority of the voting populace.
But did the FCC just sent a message to those companies.
I’ve never understood why people think that an ISP cant offer S. Korea level speeds, that require a ton of investment, at a higher price than the run of the mill you get, that is fine for 99% of users.
Can you buy an iPhone X at the same price as a generic Boost Mobile Phone? Nope! If you want top-tier phones, you have to pay top tier prices.
3 weeks ago no one was talking about NN.
3 weeks from now, they still wont.
When most of the letters written to the FCC were form letters or bots, that tells you most Americans didn’t give a flip about this until a bunch of websites TOLD them to.
Ha ! Let us know if she does respond.
Anything Obama did that is undone is a good thing.
Why should they be ticked off?
They should be happy for this change. I would.
It’s a he. At least genetically.
His reputation is that at one point, before I moved into the state, he was an independently thinking democrat. perhaps a thinking liberal, but now, he’s a complete suck up to Pelosi and the extreme liberal agenda.
Correction: ?
“Do you know what you want from internet services?”
I bristle at the question. I’m not some entitled kid who grew up with a wireless network in my home. I’m an old schooler who started with a 2400 baud modem, and used gopher and archie before Mosaic came around.
I know exactly what I want. I’m a cheap son of a gun who wants the most I can get for the least amount out of my pocket. But my post wasn’t about me. It’s about what people have versus what they’re likely to get. Just as you can’t take Obamacare from people once you give it to them, (it’s still in place, isn’t it?), changing the rules for ISPs is dangerous.
This is the plugged in generation. People are constantly online in one way or another. If you’re telling me that giving freedom to Charter, Comcast and AT&T is going to lead to happiness across the land, we are not seeing the same thing.
Messing with the price, structure, and availability of internet access for people is going to cause FUD at first, and ultimately will cost at the ballot box.
As for me, meh, I’ll figure it out. As for the GOP, it could get bloody.
Correction: ?
“Why should they be ticked off?”
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That usually is a common reaction when people are paying more and getting less. The GOP is going to have to deal with the voter blowback.
Do you want the major companies to have faster email than you have? If so, you are very charitable.
Good strike against socialism.
I agree. We need to go back to the pre-Obama rules. Keep the government out of it.
Net neutrality was about equal application of bandwidth, and not about monitoring content. Most ISPs already do that now.
Like with FR for example. I use verison 4G to access this site, because Spectrum throttles this site to a lower data rate through my wifi. Dial up throttle.
They don’t throttle google, or virtually any other websites that I visit.
But they can do that, because they own and operate the infrastructure. If they don’t like your website or its content, they don’t have to give anyone the bandwidth to visit it.
If your website doesn’t generate enough traffic, they won’t give you extra bandwidth, or search engine hits.
If they don’t like the content, you disappear off of web searches.
Think of it this way. Imagine that the phone company monitors all of your pbone calls and texts, and cut off your service if they don’t like what they hear.
“Net Neutrality means Marxist Internet.
And I’ve been in the network business for over 40 years.”
You make some excellent points. Personally, I really do see both sides. I understand the burden put upon ISPs. If only most ISPs weren’t so horrible to deal with!
The bottomline is not what you, or I think of this. It’s what the average user thinks of it. My bet is that it isn’t popular.
Hardly.
Every bb provider I've used over the last 10 years, including my current one, has offered different tiers of pricing for different performance levels.
There's nothing in net neutrality to prevent this.
Based on the comments, I think people are going to have to learn this the hard way.
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