FCC Dismantling Net Neutrality Rules vol. **** AJIT PAI

[dman14]

time to load up on my 4k porn before it's gone

 

[danikerhino]

I wonder if this is the same thing that happened when cable TV first came out. My dad always told me they would see movies for free on local channels instead of PPV or HBO...

 

[dat dude chris]

I wonder if this is the same thing that happened when cable TV first came out. My dad always told me they would see movies for free on local channels instead of PPV or HBO...

Did he have a hot box? I know thats how alot of ppl back then watched PPV stuff for free & then the cable companies got hip to stuff

Watched so many newly released movies & wrestling ppvs that way lol

 

[tego calderon el abayarde]

But but Hillary emails, Bill's sexual assault allegations whose victims have been silenced by money from Soros.

 

[AEA18]

 

[brendasdeadbaby]

those trump supporters gonna be mad when they have to cough up extra money for the ******* package.

 

[AEA18]

those trump supporters gonna be mad when they have to cough up extra money for the ******* package.

All the Black, Lesbian, and Hentai pron that they like to watch so much won't be available in their state anymore.

 

[23kidd]

All the Black, Lesbian, and Hentai pron that they like to watch so much won't be available in their state anymore.

Lets not forget bout the latinas tho.

 

[youngthundercat]

so the cable companies are scared outta their pants and this part of the reason too

 

[a blinkin]

Make America great, they said.

 

[danikerhino]

Did he have a hot box? I know thats how alot of ppl back then watched PPV stuff for free & then the cable companies got hip to stuff

Watched so many newly released movies & wrestling ppvs that way lol

Yeah, my uncle hooked it up and it worked until Comcast went digital.

 

[oneforall]

Thank god internet providers dont have no power where i live. Internet is super fast and dirt cheap also

 

[John Wick]

all they have to do now is be transparent about their practices.

 

[Nawzlew]

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/25/f...d-wrong-definition-of-how-the-internet-works/


I’m not going to go into great detail on it (my earlier post spells it out) but the basic problem is this: broadband has to be defined as either an information service or telecommunications service. The first is “the offering of a capability for generating, acquiring, storing, transforming, processing, retrieving, utilizing, or making available information,” while the second is “the transmission, between or among points specified by the user, of information of the user’s choosing, without change in the form or content of the information as sent and received.”

It’s important because the two things are regulated very differently — the FCC has much greater power over telecommunications services, under the “Title II” authority that internet service providers are so afraid of.

But don’t take my word for it. The FCC made the argument for me in its 2015 order, citing many sources of its own in support of this fact. This excellent primer produced by the EFF and nearly 200 experts explains basically from first principles how the internet works and why it should be defined as telecommunications. There are big names on the list, but it seems clear that even the garden variety experts understand this much more clearly than the FCC does (or pretends to).

The FCC dismisses these scholars and founding technologists of the internet in a footnote, describing itself as “unpersuaded” that the internet works the way they insist it does. Meanwhile, the proposal repeatedly and unquestioningly cites the comments of ISPs claiming that something as simple as caching data magically exempts them from being telecommunication services:

It is edge providers like Wikipedia, Dropbox, and even simple websites like TechCrunch that provide the services users request; it is ISPs that carry that data, with no change in form, between users and those edge providers. The FCC rejects this fundamental idea and substitutes a convenient fiction that upholds its current ambition to reclassify broadband. There is a semblance of plausibility to all this, but only because of precedents set in times when the internet looked very different.

 

[D Fly]

I've emailed my senator so many times through so many website campaigns at this point that I half expect that ___ to just hit me pre-emptively like "Yeah, I know"

How many damn times will they try to mess with net neutrality before this finally gets deaded.

They'll keep trying for the rest of eternity. And we'll keep fighting it.

 

[ksteezy]

Man if they go through with this and it backfired on them...lol

 

[ksteezy]

Americans are so dependent on an open internet, that I truly feel this **** will cause pure havoc all across the country...this is so ***** wrong of these clowns...

 

[oidreez]

What is the benefit to the lawmakers who want to get rid of net neutrality though? Why after 20 years they want to start charging people to access certain parts of basic pages that are currently free now?

 

[clarkchaz1988]

What is the benefit to the lawmakers who want to get rid of net neutrality though? Why after 20 years they want to start charging people to access certain parts of basic pages that are currently free now?

Money

 

[AEA18]

What is the benefit to the lawmakers who want to get rid of net neutrality though? Why after 20 years they want to start charging people to access certain parts of basic pages that are currently free now?

 

[Belgium]

What is the benefit to the lawmakers who want to get rid of net neutrality though? Why after 20 years they want to start charging people to access certain parts of basic pages that are currently free now?

Because it allows ISPs, those with large monopolies, to rake in tons of money. Repealing net neutrality gives ISP's a pass to throttle internet speeds for specific services and websites as they see fit.
Comcast for example could demand fees from Netflix in exchange for not drastically slowing it down in an area where Comcast is practically the only provider.
And Netflix is just one prime target if this gets passed. We all know how greedy these kind of corporations are.
That is literally the only "benefit".

 

[doublemesh96]

 

[sooperhooper]

It's not surprising at all. Most sites and apps are free and people are addicted, and addictions are profitable.

 

[dman14]

with the amount of ppl on social media and sharing vids, they are looking to make even more money
so... ISP are gonna be charging more for users that enjoy their netflix, youtube, online porn, etc?

 

[shogun]

I saw some cam girls are stressed about this.