72% of Consumers Don't Know What Net Neutrality Is
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72% of Consumers Don't Know What Net Neutrality Is
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#3This is a really bizarre use of the word consumer, essentially equating it one to one with the word citizen.
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#5Survey methodology and all that, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if most of the affected population didn't know.
Net Equality would have likely perked up more interest.
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#6Doesn't surprise me at all - the level of energy in the most recent protests around the repeal was optically quite a bit lower than previous efforts.
We were basically warned this would happen too, that Net Neutrality opponents just keep beating the drum until the general population got tired of resisting.
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#7Cracked even ran a commentary video [0] where all the hosts misunderstood how the internet works entirely (Netflix pays millions of dollars to Tier 1 providers (pre-Comcast deal even) every year, they don't use the networks for free, and Comcast didn't build them (nor own the companies that did) they only build the last mile - which is supposed to be maintained by their subscribers, not be used as a monopoly to be greedy with - they also pay Teir 1 providers to provide connectivity and maintain the internet).
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#8Doesn't surprise me at all - the level of energy in the most recent protests around the repeal was optically quite a bit lower than previous efforts. We were basically warned this would happen too, that Net Neutrality opponents just keep beating the drum until the general population got tired of resisting.
I'd argue that at this point, the protests are arguably irrelevant. Ajit Pai has made his position clear, he has no intention of changing it. With a Republican Presidency, the FCC has a Republican majority, and votes on party lines. The only alternate path to this issue is Congress, which is also Republican. No Congressmen cares strongly enough about net neutrality (it's not an issue that's going to lose them reelection) to risk breaking the party line over.
In short, submitting comments to the FCC or protesting is nearly completely irrelevant because Ajit Pai is gonna be Ajit Pai. I think there's a less than 1% chance that the Open Internet Order is not revoked.
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#9Which is even more impressive when you consider how many FCC comments in favor of net neutrality were received.
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#10This brings to my mind some Sony Music executive defending their malware-enabling CD DRM - - "Most people don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care?"