Net Neutrality

[Okeefenokee]

Nor I, if anything it has gotten more expensive for less.

We dumped all land lines and went with mobile. Less bandwidth, but we have enough to do what we want, and it's way the hell cheaper.

Didn't I turn you on to that?

I mean hell. Two years ago I was paying some money for three gigs a month. Now I have unlimited and ten gigs hotspot for the same price. I mean there is noticeable throttling going on during certain hours in some places but I'm generally pleased with how well cellular networks are progressing.

I live far enough out that there's no throttling. This is a new neighborhood, and no one can get a landline. I assume everyone is using a hotspot. It's not optimal, but I downloaded Pinocchio the other night in about 20 minutes. All the kids are watching netflix right now, and I'm watching youtube. Steven Crowder has mentioned mobile a few times on this subject.

Twenty years ago people were paying for calls by the minute, now everything's unlimited, and it includes internet. I have better internet now through my mobile plan than I did with a landline in Germany. No mobile neutrality required.

[Smitty-48]

There's other things which can present like throttling, my Netflix was running slow, my internet was slowing down, and I was like, what's up with this? Am I getting throttled here?

But the tech guy came and looked at the box, and found it was a faulty splitter, soon as he replaced it, boom, it all came back lightning fast.

[tue4t]

We dumped all land lines and went with mobile. Less bandwidth, but we have enough to do what we want, and it's way the hell cheaper.

Didn't I turn you on to that?

I mean hell. Two years ago I was paying some money for three gigs a month. Now I have unlimited and ten gigs hotspot for the same price. I mean there is noticeable throttling going on during certain hours in some places but I'm generally pleased with how well cellular networks are progressing.

I live far enough out that there's no throttling. This is a new neighborhood, and no one can get a landline. I assume everyone is using a hotspot. It's not optimal, but I downloaded Pinocchio the other night in about 20 minutes. All the kids are watching netflix right now, and I'm watching youtube. Steven Crowder has mentioned mobile a few times on this subject.

Twenty years ago people were paying for calls by the minute, now everything's unlimited, and it includes internet. I have better internet now through my mobile plan than I did with a landline in Germany. No mobile neutrality required.

Yep, encouraging more competition via mobile frequencies is what Pai mentioned as one of their initiatives against the local/state sanctioned ISP monopolies.

Mobile ain't so great if you need good pings, security, and a rock solid connection, but it's mostly great otherwise for most types of daily use.

[clubgop]

Question:

We saw a few months ago how Google basically stole the Dailystormer domain and colluded with Cloudfront to take down a website they found objectionable.

What's to stop ISPs from deciding that somebody's content is objectionable and throttling all internet traffic to and from that site to the point where it's essentially unusable and unviewable?

Yeah, you might hate dailystormer and rejoice in their having their domain stolen from them to shut it down, but it doesn't have to be just Dailystormer. It could be anybody these corporations find objectionable, for any reason now. It could be this very forum, actually.

If it already happened with 2015 NN in place, why does 2015 NN repeal matter?

Yeah, either way we get fucked, so if I can slap the face of the ones currently fucking you, why not? Fuck google, fuck facebook, fuck twitter. What you going to do? Call your Senators and tell them what a piece of shit Ajat Pai is and demand he takes back control of the internet? Cause that makes sense.

[Speaker to Animals]

No, that's what finally caused the order. I don't think it's happened after the original FCC order.

[clubgop]

If I was the FCC, I'd have no issue taking to task bandwidth hogs such as Netflix, which does absolutely nothing to reduce their bandwidth streaming.

If you were the FCC no one would blame StA for losing his shit. We’d all be right there with him.

shots fired

If TC was the FCC, Sta, should be all for this decision. A federal agency gave up power, let me repeat that, A FEDERAL FUCKING AGENCY GAVE UP POWER and I'm supposed to have a problem with that? And the solution is for me is to lobby my Senators to give back power to the federal agency I now hate the power they wanted to give up? Put that in your little University of Maryland survey, see how that turns out.

[Speaker to Animals]

Huckster mentality

[Speaker to Animals]

Let's just get rid of all regulations, guys. Fucking bring on the snake oil salesmen and poisoned candy, fam!

[Fife]

Good!

[Speaker to Animals]

Hell, yeah! Hucksters unite!

Oh wait.. Why is everybody voting us out of office again??