How is this different from me paying for more for faster internet?
GOP net neutrality bill would allow paid fast lanes and preempt state laws
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Re: GOP net neutrality bill would allow paid fast lanes and preempt state laws
#12If it allows paid fast lanes, then clearly it allows degradation.
Is that definitely the case?
I interpreted this as meaning that although you pay for 10mb/s Internet, Comcast can offer a special package that allows you to stream Netflix in 4K.
Re: GOP net neutrality bill would allow paid fast lanes and preempt state laws
#13It's funny how they always vehemently advocate for states rights unless these states rights get in the way of their agenda.
Re: GOP net neutrality bill would allow paid fast lanes and preempt state laws
#14Correct me if I’m wrong, but haven’t we always had paid fast lanes available? At least for VOIP this stuff hasn’t seemed very uncommon.
Re: GOP net neutrality bill would allow paid fast lanes and preempt state laws
#15GOP (“Grand Old Party”) == US Republican Party in case it wasn’t obvious from the apparent shortsightedness of the proposed law.
Re: GOP net neutrality bill would allow paid fast lanes and preempt state laws
#16Can someone explain to me how it's evil for them to charge more money for a "bigger pipe"? Their networks can only service so much traffic; not sure why supply and demand are seen as evil in this case.
Re: GOP net neutrality bill would allow paid fast lanes and preempt state laws
#17If it allows paid fast lanes, then clearly it allows degradation.
Is that definitely the case? I interpreted this as meaning that although you pay for 10mb/s Internet, Comcast can offer a special package that allows you to stream Netflix in 4K.
That would be unfair to other streaming services e.g. YouTube, Hulu, HBO, Amazon, etc.
Re: GOP net neutrality bill would allow paid fast lanes and preempt state laws
#18Breaking news Law proposed which would allow EvilCorp to charge more money for the services which cost more to provide.
Re: GOP net neutrality bill would allow paid fast lanes and preempt state laws
#19How is this different from me paying for more for faster internet?
Because the last mile is (sometimes) truly bandwidth limited. But the trunk lines aren't. Now they just get to extort money from us or artificially throttle us. Worse, they'll likely (as they have everywhere else) extort money for websites they have no connection to (like Facebook or Twitter) just because they can. Like an entrepreneurial thug standing outside a club and extracting an extra fee to let folks in. Or paying protection money to the mob. Like that.
Re: GOP net neutrality bill would allow paid fast lanes and preempt state laws
#20Can someone explain to me how it's evil for them to charge more money for a "bigger pipe"? Their networks can only service so much traffic; not sure why supply and demand are seen as evil in this case.
Yes, yes... don't explain, just downvote.