The FCC and Net Neutrality

[TheOneX]

I use CenturyLink DSL service.. I'm sure that quite a few others use DSL of some sort.

It's running on the ancient copper phone lines, installed by MaBall across the country, rather than coaxial cable. Not beholden to any cable or media companies..

Too bad most people don't have CenturyLink as an option.

Not that specific company, but every house has a phone line. You almost certainly have a DSL option available in your area, unless you're quite far out of range from the nearest switching box.

For the vast majority of people that option is called AT&T or Verizon. DSL is not some saving grace, it is just another version of cable. The company you get your internet from is more important than how they deliver that internet.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Too bad most people don't have CenturyLink as an option.

Not that specific company, but every house has a phone line. You almost certainly have a DSL option available in your area, unless you're quite far out of range from the nearest switching box.

For the vast majority of people that option is called AT&T or Verizon. DSL is not some saving grace, it is just another version of cable. The company you get your internet from is more important than how they deliver that internet.

I never claimed that. Just refuting the claim that everybody was using a cable or wireless provider.

All corporations are shit - I stand by that.

[Fife]

The internet might have been given a stay of execution.


Hands down, the best move by Trump so far:

Trump names net neutrality foe Ajit Pai to lead the FCC

This is right at the top of issues of importance to basic human freedom. And the state has already warped the prole submission rate on "neutrality" to probably 80 or 90%. This is perhaps one of the very most important wins coming from the Billary defeat. I just hope whoever pulls Trump's string stays firm.

Why Is The Media Smearing New FCC Chair Ajit Pai As The Enemy Of Net Neutrality?

LOL, why indeed?

What is true is that Pai objected strongly to the bizarre process that waylaid the agency over the next several months, including an unprecedented intervention by the White House and the legally fraught decision in early 2015 to enact the new rules while, at the same time, transforming broadband Internet access services into public utilities.

[Fife]

From last Friday, some net neutrality redpilling:

[TheReal_ND]

Colbert is shilling 4chan to try and make them his personal army for brigading the FCC because "MUH NET NEUTRALITY!!1"

Do the opposite of what liberals say at all times. Most of these newfags are lapping it up though.

http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/124668243#top

[TheReal_ND]

You see now? You finally see why Colbert was shilling reddit and even /pol/ to get behind him on net neutrality?

We really dodged a bullet. Always do the opposite of what progressives say.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 44176.html

[Zlaxer]

The internet might have been given a stay of execution.

It would be dam near impossible for the government to kill the internet for the educated, just the proles would be forced into the proverbial box.

If they take over DNS, then rouge DNS servers would surface...if they lock up IP addresses, then people move to a new protocol.....if they shutdown the main routing hubs, people set up optical p2p connections and/or radio hubs.

[Speaker to Animals]

Most of us are getting shafted. It shouldn't have to be explained, as if to a child, how the few corporations that control most of the media (and your Internet access) will take advantage of this to control what you are able to read, watch, and otherwise consume online.

Really dumb..

[Zlaxer]

Most of us are getting shafted. It shouldn't have to be explained, as if to a child, how the few corporations that control most of the media (and your Internet access) will take advantage of this to control what you are able to read, watch, and otherwise consume online.

Really dumb..

Then don't use them....all I'm saying is that there is a limit to how much control the ISPs can assert, BC there are alternatives.

[TheReal_ND]

Giving the government power is what's really dumb. It just grows and it never gives it up. There are issues with ISP's but I'd rather fuck with them than some agency that has no due process.