Net neutrality

AAAintheBeltway said:
I think these predictions are way off. Net neutrality is about forcing one group of users to subsidize another. Of course, Obama favored his billionaire pals in the silicon valley monopolies. The carriers have little incentive to upgrade facilities when they have to give them away to netflix.
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Net Neutrality is about not having Comcast slow down your connection to Netflix to a crawl while they offer a competing video over Internet service.

Net Neutrality is one of the founding principles of the Internet. This FCC vote today is very bad news for the citizens of our country. We are about to get totally screwed by the large cable and telco companies as they create another revenue stream by crippling the service they offer — while some (in a few cases all) of their infrastructure was paid for by the universal service tax on your phone bill.
 
any publicly traded VPN companies? Never thought I'd see the day I'd have to pay for privacy; we are now the product, unreal.
 
It sounds like a lot of heavy internet users are pissed off about this. Think they could get together and boycott the service providers when they start implementing blocking, throttling, new ad schemes, and new and increased fees?

It would be a game of chicken, but I doubt a heavy user could be without any internet for a day, much less a month or more, myself included.
 
CaptainObvious said:
That's the thing. Most people have no idea what's coming. Cable companies knowing that cord cutting is the trend, but you still need internet. Want the same speed you're getting now? Pay up, otherwise it's 1995 all over again. Watch that cell phone bill go up too. Pay for this page, pay for that page. Want pictures to download in less than three minutes? Pay up. They'll make billions more and not one single job will be created. Why would they hire more to provide the very same service, and in many cases less and slower.
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You could be correct. I am not sure how this will turn out for customers in the short term. There maybe market disruption for a while. However, you will see more companies like Google (they already are in some markets) become ISPs if current providers increase prices (or even if they don't). As technology advances, the infrastructure requirements for an ISP will change. The barriers for entry will become lower.
 
gwb-trading said:
Ajit Pai just handed Republicans a bag of shit
Killing net neutrality isn't just bad policy, it's bad politics
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/14/16777500/ajit-pai-net-neutrality-republican-politics-whoops
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Tom B said:
I am not sure how this will turn out for customers in the short term. There maybe market disruption for a while. However, you will see more companies like Google (they already are in some markets) become ISPs if current providers increase prices (or even if they don't).
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I guess the political repercussions will be related to how much the consumer feels they are affected by this decision. So it’s not necessarily the end of the world for Republicans.
 
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