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72% of Consumers Don't Know What Net Neutrality Is

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Re: 72% of Consumers Don't Know What Net Neutrality Is

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Post by sanityUnbounded »

__sha3d2 wrote: post #14

If you're here, you can likely set up a VPN on a VPS provider. Do yourself a favor and spend the $5 / month for an instance. Get your hands on your parent's, spouse's, friend's, sibling's phones and get it set up for them too. Nobody needs to put up with this bullshit from ISPs or the Government. There is a great and easy to follow tutorial from DigitalOcean here: digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-an…

You could do that. However you then paint a target on your back saying "FBI please hack me" under the rule 41 change.

Re: 72% of Consumers Don't Know What Net Neutrality Is

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Post by JTon »

__sha3d2 wrote: post #14

If you're here, you can likely set up a VPN on a VPS provider. Do yourself a favor and spend the $5 / month for an instance. Get your hands on your parent's, spouse's, friend's, sibling's phones and get it set up for them too. Nobody needs to put up with this bullshit from ISPs or the Government. There is a great and easy to follow tutorial from DigitalOcean here: digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-an…

> Get your hands on your parent's, spouse's, friend's, sibling's phones and get it set up for them too. Nobody needs to put up with this bullshit from ISPs or the Government.

I... I don't do this anymore. I've found myself overburdened with support calls when the tech I've configured invariable breaks. Whether it's weeks or months later. Even if what I've configured isn't the culprit, I'm still on the hook. This is actually one of the reasons why I recommend Apple products to the least tech-saavy in my circles. Just so I can direct them to Apple Support later on...

Re: 72% of Consumers Don't Know What Net Neutrality Is

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Post by WillPostForFood »

fallmonkey wrote: post #18

28% know what it is? That's more surprising to me actually.

22% (6% answered not sure). But to be clear, 22% SAY they know what it is. I guarantee that if asked to explain what it actually is, some chunk of that 22% would get it wrong. Anecdotally, most people I talk to IRL believe it will either lower their cable bill or remove their bandwidth cap.

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Post by dkla1120 »

WillPostForFood wrote: post #24
fallmonkey wrote: post #18

28% know what it is? That's more surprising to me actually.

22% (6% answered not sure). But to be clear, 22% SAY they know what it is. I guarantee that if asked to explain what it actually is, some chunk of that 22% would get it wrong. Anecdotally, most people I talk to IRL believe it will either lower their cable bill or remove their bandwidth cap.

Or it's just more Government regulation that is trying to control the internet and prevent free market competition.

Re: 72% of Consumers Don't Know What Net Neutrality Is

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Post by hammock »

Maakuth wrote: post #10

This 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?"

More likely that the executive didn't know what a rootkit was, and was just told what it does (?)

Re: 72% of Consumers Don't Know What Net Neutrality Is

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Post by stephengillie »

almiron10 wrote: post #13

Can someone point to the best ELI5 article, or tell me the best metaphor? I think I don't do a great job trying to explain net neutrality to family members.

I also struggle with metaphors.

- A company who owns roads, and charges you to drive on them, wants to charge more for highly-used routes.

- A bus company is raising fees on routes with the most riders.

- Cable companies charge more for high-demand "premium" channels.

- Stores charge more for items that are higher in demand.

- Electric utilities charge surge prices during high demand times. So do some ride share taxis.

- Network companies charge more for high-demand connections? Preposterous!

It's rare that businesses will "commute" a fee, like happened for"commuters" in the last century.

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