Damnit. The Republicans appear to be retarded. At least this one and her 31 Republican Co-sponsors.

The bolded part should tell you all you need to know. The major internet corporations want this to fail, so they can continue their semi-monopoly they have going (I say semi because it's not just one corporation, but a select few).

This is an interesting article.

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/fcc-better-call-saul/

Nobody gets it, because we haven't seen the 8 pages yet.


So you are an idiot. Everybody with a brain agrees that Net Neutrality is a good thing, we just don't know if Title II is a good thing and the best way to achieve it.


The intention isn't to regulate, it's to ensure openness and freedom, and not allow the ISP to regulate the internet. It's to prevent ISP's from regulating the internet.


This is a GREAT point. Which is why Title II might not be the right way to ensure Network Neutrality. The FCC tried another approach, classifying ISP's as Information Services. The Courts said that's not good enough. Congress didn't do anything to fix it, so the FCC did the only thing they could, Title II. The measure the Republicans just put out isn't Network Neutrality, it's the opposite of it.

He brings up some more great points about how the FCC board will change, and might decide to leverage their regulating power differently. That's why we need laws that say "nobody gets to fuck up the internet, including the government".

The article by the EFF is a great article concerning the Vague "General Conduct" Rule. The EFF is pretty much the only group anybody should listen to. The rest have ben bribed by special interests groups.


That's a bold-faced lie. Every ISP that also offers streaming video or Cable TV or any other video service competes with Netflix. Comcast clearly created the problem between Netflix and Comcast in order to stifle the Netflix business and harm their mutual customers from watching Netflix.

Everybody says the problem is "Netflix's Traffic". That's an incorrect way of looking at it. It's not NETFLIX's traffic, it's Comcasts CUSTOMERS traffic. Netflix doesn't send out spam that nobody wants. Comcasts customers REQUEST it. Comcasts customers DEMAND it. It's Comcast's responsibility to ensure they have pipes large enough to handle the data that their customers request. Netflix was nice and offered to put server in Comcasts datacenters to relieve the stress on Comcasts peering points. Comcast refused and wanted to bill Netflix. This is double-billing for the same traffic.


No you fucking moron, they did 8 pages. Stop spouting this sensationalist bullshit that you clearly know isn't true given your previous statement: "it took over 300 pages of explanation to justify eight pages of rules."


You can't get 25-75mbps DSL here. Cable content IS challenged by streaming video, which is why Comcast did anti-monopolistic activity to interfere with it. Maybe they should have instead been sued under the anti-trust provisions instead of implementing Title II. There still ISN'T internet competition, it has existed since dial-up, which ran over Title II telephone lines. If there was competition, then Comcast couldn't act monopolistically.

Here is another example of Comcast being shitheads:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/comcas ... o-go-deals

I'll just leave this here..




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Yeah I view Net Neutrality like the 1st Amendment. It regulates the government, giving individuals the freedom of speech. Net Neutrality should regulate the ISP's and Government, giving individuals the freedom of internet.

To suggest that we are entitled to Internet access in the same way we are entitled to free speech is ludicrous. I remember the same claim being made about a right to healthcare - also ludicrous. What entitles anyone to the products and services created by private entities?

I don't think he meant the right to access the internet without paying, but rather the right to use the internet (once accessed) in an unrestricted manner.

Correct

Ooooooh snap

Netflix Recants on Obamanet
Proponents of net neutrality appear to be experiencing lobbyists’ remorse.


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That article is so pathetic I'm not even going to bother to dissect it.

You don't think it's fair to point out Netflix did all this strictly for their own selfish reasons? They couldn't give less of a shit about the principle of net neutrality.





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Well isn't it nice that in the United States they are stuck with Title II regulation now.

Sure? Until they figure out how to further exploit it to their advantage.


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