Today is the last chance to comment on the proposal to kill net neutrality
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Re: Today is the last chance to comment on the proposal to kill net neutrality
#2What is the chance of this thing passing?
Re: Today is the last chance to comment on the proposal to kill net neutrality
#3I'm all for everyone commenting so at least it's well known how far this FCC is going against public opinion, and encourage everyone to make their voices heard.
But, and I hate to be the cynic here, does anyone really believe that even if all 323 million Americans commented in opposition to killing net neutrality, that Ajit Pai would relent?
It's all but guaranteed he's going to do this. The only question is when, not if :(
Re: Today is the last chance to comment on the proposal to kill net neutrality
#4It's unfair to ISPs (some of it is their own doing like introducing "unlimited data" purely based on the assumption that most users wouldn't use their data at the same time, which companies like Google and Netflix capitalized on by building high bandwidth services on top of it) but since Google and Netflix are capable of manipulating consent of internet users and will not let FCC rollback "net neutrality", ISPs will have to stop innovating, keep giving terrible service and pass their costs to consumers.
Re: Today is the last chance to comment on the proposal to kill net neutrality
#5I'm all for everyone commenting so at least it's well known how far this FCC is going against public opinion, and encourage everyone to make their voices heard. But, and I hate to be the cynic here, does anyone really believe that even if all 323 million Americans commented in opposition to killing net neutrality, that Ajit Pai would relent? It's all but guaranteed he's going to do this. The only question is when, no…
What are the checks and balances here? He's not an elected official (so he can't be voted out), and he knows his time is up as soon as the executive branch turns blue again. So of course he will do his best to please the ISPs in whose coddling arms he will find refuge after his tenure.
Best I can think of is Congress passing a law to enforce net neutrality.
Re: Today is the last chance to comment on the proposal to kill net neutrality
#6It's unfair to ISPs (some of it is their own doing like introducing "unlimited data" purely based on the assumption that most users wouldn't use their data at the same time, which companies like Google and Netflix capitalized on by building high bandwidth services on top of it) but since Google and Netflix are capable of manipulating consent of internet users and will not let FCC rollback "net neutrality", ISPs will…
ISPs are always free to throttle all services. Or (gasp) stop lying about so-called "unlimited" plans.
Re: Today is the last chance to comment on the proposal to kill net neutrality
#7It's unfair to ISPs (some of it is their own doing like introducing "unlimited data" purely based on the assumption that most users wouldn't use their data at the same time, which companies like Google and Netflix capitalized on by building high bandwidth services on top of it) but since Google and Netflix are capable of manipulating consent of internet users and will not let FCC rollback "net neutrality", ISPs will…
ISPs are always free to throttle all services. Or ( gasp ) stop lying about so-called "unlimited" plans.
Don't worry, that is exactly what they'll end up doing. Hope you have alternatives.
Re: Today is the last chance to comment on the proposal to kill net neutrality
#8It's unfair to ISPs (some of it is their own doing like introducing "unlimited data" purely based on the assumption that most users wouldn't use their data at the same time, which companies like Google and Netflix capitalized on by building high bandwidth services on top of it) but since Google and Netflix are capable of manipulating consent of internet users and will not let FCC rollback "net neutrality", ISPs will…
Why not give good service and pass costs to customers?
Re: Today is the last chance to comment on the proposal to kill net neutrality
#9It's unfair to ISPs (some of it is their own doing like introducing "unlimited data" purely based on the assumption that most users wouldn't use their data at the same time, which companies like Google and Netflix capitalized on by building high bandwidth services on top of it) but since Google and Netflix are capable of manipulating consent of internet users and will not let FCC rollback "net neutrality", ISPs will…
Maybe running with net neutrality should be the next ISP innovation? It's clear that there's enough consumer market demand that they could make money from it, I don't understand where the ISP's tunnel vision of "only way to innovate is if net neutrality is killed" comes from.
Re: Today is the last chance to comment on the proposal to kill net neutrality
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
ISPs are always free to throttle all services. Or ( gasp ) stop lying about so-called "unlimited" plans.
Don't worry, that is exactly what they'll end up doing. Hope you have alternatives.
Net Neutrality is the idea that ISP cannot target only specific addresses/services when they throttle your connection.