Net Neutrality

[heydaralon]

LUKE TOLD REY THAT HE CONSIDERED KILLING HIS NEPHEW BEN SOLO FOR THE GOOD OF THE GALAXY
REY TRIES TO CONVERT KYLO REN TO THE LIGHT SIDE AND HE TELLS HER HE WILL TEACH HER AND THAT HER PARENTS WERE NOBODIES, JUNK TRADERS IN FACT
WHEN REY GOES INTO THE CAVE SHE DOES NOT SEE HER PARENTS REFLECTION, ONLY HERSELF

THE PLANET CRAIT AND ITS FIGHT WAS A LOT LIKE THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK EXCEPT ON SALT FLATS INSTEAD OF ICE

LUKE WANTS TO PUT AN END TO THE JEDI ORDER

FINN TRIES TO DISABLE TRACKING SYSTEM

SNOKES HAS A RED THRONE AND ATTEMPTS TO CONTROL REN

[DBTrek]

Triggered monkeys are triggered.

[Smitty-48]

So basically the exact same plot as the first Star Wars trilogy, except swap out Luke Skywalker for Rey Skywalker, swap out Darth Vader for Kylo Vader, and swap out Emperor Palpatine for Emperor Snoke.

All Star Wars movies are basically the same and they haven't come up with a new idea since 1977, who knew?

[Fife]

Triggered monkeys are triggered.

Autism on parade today. Glorius!

Now if you'll excuse me a moment, I need to mining for memes.

:goteam: :drunk:

[Smitty-48]

The Obama law was a shitty law, I'm not complaining about shitty laws being repealed, why are you?

LMFAO

Doesn't even know what he's responding about.

It wasn't a law. It was an FCC regulatory order.

This. This is the problem in this thread. The people on the pro-net non-neutrality policy haven't the faintest idea how this shit works, don't know anything about the net neutrality order, and are surprised to learn all the fucked up shit that it in this repeal order. They just don't know what they are talking about.

Even Fife was like WTF? You mean the FCC Chairman claims the power to preempt state laws now!?

Jesus

Do you understand anything at all about the Communications Act of 1934 or the Supremacy Clause?

Indeed, as I said, shitty law, FDR to Obama, same-same, classification of ISP's as common carriers under title II, regulatory overreach enabled therein.

[Fife]

Repeal the FCA, shutter the FCC.

Take away this dumb pajeet's power, forever. Who's with me?

We can even pick up the Obamanauts and the Fauxcahontas fanbois, they *really* hate that dumb pajeet!

[DBTrek]

Things are slowing down, damn. Well, time for another dose of reality to shake up all the screeching true believers again. Can't wait to hear a million times how I've made "no argument" in the wake of this batch of citations. lolz

Bloomberg:

But like most high-minded principles, the ideals of net neutrality aren't reality. No matter what the FCC does, America's internet is not an equal place and it's only going to become less fair. . . In one of the biggest signs of basic internet reality, one of the biggest advocates of net neutrality is no longer on the front lines. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said this spring that his company believes in the principles of net neutrality, but it's not life-or-death for Netflix anymore.

"It's not our primary battle at this point," Hastings said at a technology conference in May. "We think net neutrality is incredibly important. It's not narrowly important to us, because we are big enough to get the deals we want."Hastings is right. Big and popular companies have privileged positions in today's internet, no matter how the rules are written and enforced. That's also why Google and Facebook aren't arguing that vociferously for the FCC to keep stricter regulation of internet service providers. So let's not mourn the end of net neutrality at the hands of the FCC. Net neutrality was already dead.

https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articl ... eady-ended

USA Today:

If the FCC approves this new proposal, the worst of federal meddling online will be retired. Instead, the commission will simply require Internet service providers to be transparent about their service offerings. That way, tech innovators will have the information they need and consumers will know which plan works best for them.

In other words, Web users and creators will be back in control of the Internet instead of lawyers and bureaucrats. Just as they were for all but the past couple of years. To ensure transparency, Pai made all his proposals public before the FCC vote Thursday. A big departure from the Obama administration’s methods, which kept its net neutrality rules secret until after they were approved.

Before the FCC’s heavy-handed intervention, we saw the creation of Amazon, Google and Twitter. If Washington removes these unnecessary regulations as expected, we’ll see the Internet continue to blossom.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/ ... 928647001/

Fortune Magazine

For example, if you’re reading the headlines and have to wait 300 milliseconds for a page to load, you won’t notice the delay. But if you’re watching a football game, a 300-millisecond lag during a critical play will spoil your experience.

ISPs work hard to prevent such delays. They know that all network traffic is not equal. Packets of streaming video have entirely different requirements from those of a site with only text and images.

These differences will come into sharp relief two years from now with the first commercial deployments of 5G, the next generation of mobile telecommunications. One hundred times faster than today’s 4G networks, 5G will support the millions of devices that make up the Internet of Things: parking meters, streetlights, elevators, security cameras, and other connected devices.

The Internet of Things, and the 5G connectivity that supports it, will give us greener buildings and factories, more productive farms, safer cars, and 4K video streamed almost everywhere. But each of these services will make unique demands on the network—demands that can best be met if ISPs offer different levels of network performance tailored to each service. For example, a shipping container crossing the ocean needs extended wireless range; virtual reality’s high-resolution video takes serious bandwidth; and driverless cars will require ultra-low latency to ensure that signals reach the brakes in time to prevent a collision. In a world where every packet of digital data gets treated the same as every other, this would not be possible.

http://fortune.com/2017/12/11/fcc-net-n ... ty-repeal/

Stay tuned for the next batch of no-argument, after a brief intermission for shrieking.

[ooky]

The "giant internet companies" that are against it are not the same ones being "handed control of the internet. It would be like saying that energy generators like First Solar always have the exact same priorities as providers like Pacific Gas & Electric, which is patently false. It's the ISPs that will benefit from this, and if there's one thing I thought would unite the whole country, it's how reasonable it is to effing hate Comcast (et al).

I am hearing rumbles that now when progressives want to get repulsive content they don't want off internet, this gives them a new tool. they can lobby advertisers, they successfully lobbied GoDaddy to stop hosting Daily Stormer, and now they can legally lobby ISPs to literally block delivery of packets from or access to certain sites.

[heydaralon]

The "giant internet companies" that are against it are not the same ones being "handed control of the internet. It would be like saying that energy generators like First Solar always have the exact same priorities as providers like Pacific Gas & Electric, which is patently false. It's the ISPs that will benefit from this, and if there's one thing I thought would unite the whole country, it's how reasonable it is to effing hate Comcast (et al).

I am hearing rumbles that now when progressives want to get repulsive content they don't want off internet, this gives them a new tool. they can lobby advertisers, they successfully lobbied GoDaddy to stop hosting Daily Stormer, and now they can legally lobby ISPs to literally block delivery of packets from or access to certain sites.

agreed. Amazon isn't Spectrum or Comcast.

[The Conservative]

The "giant internet companies" that are against it are not the same ones being "handed control of the internet. It would be like saying that energy generators like First Solar always have the exact same priorities as providers like Pacific Gas & Electric, which is patently false. It's the ISPs that will benefit from this, and if there's one thing I thought would unite the whole country, it's how reasonable it is to effing hate Comcast (et al).

I am hearing rumbles that now when progressives want to get repulsive content they don't want off internet, this gives them a new tool. they can lobby advertisers, they successfully lobbied GoDaddy to stop hosting Daily Stormer, and now they can legally lobby ISPs to literally block delivery of packets from or access to certain sites.

agreed. Amazon isn't Spectrum or Comcast.

No, it is bigger...