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Is anyone working on market based routing over mesh networks with crypto currencies? Would that have been disallowed under the network neutrality rules?
No, net neutrality just makes it so ISPs can't throttle/block/charge-extra-for particular websites, like they do in Portugal: https://twitter.com/RoKhanna/status/923701871092441088
One minor positive is the requirement for disclosure, but time will tell if this is actually enforced.
As an Australian, I feel a mounting sense of fear that we’re next...
This has been asked a few times but never fully answered, can someone explain why this vote in particular is a problem? I understand net neutrality and I am all for it, but there was considerable public doubt before reclassification that this was the proper way to go about it. It also doesn't seem like the internet regulatory state of pre-2015 was a disaster. Would we better off focusing our efforts on increasing com…
Except it was a disaster. The only reason the rule got put into place was because Verizon was found to be throttling Netflix. There's no reason to suspect they won't go back to it as soon as they can.
No that's inaccurate. Title II reclassification happened in 2015. Verizon Netflix "throttling" (controversial what actually happened there) happened in 2017.
This has made me feel pretty damn powerless, as pretty much every site/person of significance has stated their opposition to such a repeal, and yet they went through it anyway. Just a gut feeling that our democracy isn't working properly when such a loud and clear, great majority of the population messaging is completely ignored.
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Non-voters / people on the “there’s no difference” train also deserve a moment of reflection about whether their reality is true.
No. Give me a candidate worth voting for, and I will vote. The current "pick the lesser of two shitheads" is ridiculous. Both parties in the US are to blame. The two party system in the US today means that voting for anyone that is not a Democrat or Republican is a complete waste of time.
This thread is about Net Neutrality. The rules being rolled back by the current Republican administration were put in place by the previous Democratic administration.
Not voting is just a vote for whoever wins. You voted through inaction for the candidate that supported removing these protections.
This is proof positive that the current FCC commission has ignored the will of the voters on this issue. Support for Net Neutrality was overwhelming and bi-partisan, yet Ajit Pai just plowed forward without consideration for what the citizens demanded. This is government at its worst.
[1] https://splinternews.com/the-long-lucrative-right-wing-grift...
If we stage a nation-wide boycot of Amazon, Walmart.com, and a few other big retailers (and stop using Google, Bing et al) I can almost guarantee it that they will move mountains to bring back net neutrality. You have to get the big corporations a profit motive to get anything done in this country.
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bi-partisan? Pretty sure the vast majority of Republican candidates came out against it last November. People knew what they were voting for.
I believe he was referring to constituents, rather than politicians.