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Startups Seek Tech Solution to Net Neutrality Repeal

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Re: Startups Seek Tech Solution to Net Neutrality Repeal

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Post by turc1656 »

brndnmtthws wrote: post #3

VPNs for everyone?

Yep. Beat me to making the comment. This is already a solved problem.

A VPN solves this problem quite well. Only exception I see is overall bandwidth usage. They'll obviously still see the total amount of traffic going across their lines and may throttle that, but that would apply to everyone equally, which I don't have an issue with. Since they won't be able to see the traffic due to encryption, they can't inhibit/block certain sites or services. Nor can they inject ads or anything else into the HTML responses. They would also be essentially blind and unable to build a profile about you to sell.

Re: Startups Seek Tech Solution to Net Neutrality Repeal

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Post by raverbashing »

polskibus wrote: post #6

Why are startups afraid? Shouldn't the biggest internet/cloud companies be worried first? They are going to be taxed most (esp. Netflix). Or maybe I'm missing something in the big picture?

I agree, expect a shakedown of the biggest players

In fact, I would be very happy if they were overcharged for it (especially Facebook) it would push them for NN

Re: Startups Seek Tech Solution to Net Neutrality Repeal

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Post by notfromhere »

polskibus wrote: post #6

Why are startups afraid? Shouldn't the biggest internet/cloud companies be worried first? They are going to be taxed most (esp. Netflix). Or maybe I'm missing something in the big picture?

startups are going to get strangled in the crib by the biggest companies because they won't be able to afford paying for prioritization

Re: Startups Seek Tech Solution to Net Neutrality Repeal

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Post by KajMagnus »

Danihan wrote: post #2

Isn't the solution just more ISP competition?

But that's not going to happen any time soon? (in the US.) They try to unfairly kill off any competition, as far as I've read.

Instead, what if a decentralized web is a safer solution. Recently here at HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16005961 "Decentralization Roundup for 2017"

Re: Startups Seek Tech Solution to Net Neutrality Repeal

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Post by turc1656 »

Chaebixi wrote: post #12
isaac_is_goat wrote: post #4

So looks like they were right when they said it would encourage innovation. Go figure.

Some "innovation" is a waste of resources. Specifically, the innovation required to work around broken policy.

Or fixing an already solved problem. Using a VPN addresses basically everything they are trying to fix.

Re: Startups Seek Tech Solution to Net Neutrality Repeal

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Post by paxy »

polskibus wrote: post #6

Why are startups afraid? Shouldn't the biggest internet/cloud companies be worried first? They are going to be taxed most (esp. Netflix). Or maybe I'm missing something in the big picture?

Big companies will be quick to cut deals with ISPs to prioritize their traffic. It's the startups and new products which can't afford to pay that will suffer.

Re: Startups Seek Tech Solution to Net Neutrality Repeal

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Post by mtgx »

polskibus wrote: post #6

Why are startups afraid? Shouldn't the biggest internet/cloud companies be worried first? They are going to be taxed most (esp. Netflix). Or maybe I'm missing something in the big picture?

They will be taxed first, but presumably the tax will be low enough that they can comfortably afford it, while also being large enough that startups will have little chance to make the same kind of deal.

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Post by techpop10 »

Chaebixi wrote: post #12
isaac_is_goat wrote: post #4

So looks like they were right when they said it would encourage innovation. Go figure.

Some "innovation" is a waste of resources. Specifically, the innovation required to work around broken policy.

Isn't that a description of Uber?

Re: Startups Seek Tech Solution to Net Neutrality Repeal

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Post by thefreeman »

turc1656 wrote: post #11
brndnmtthws wrote: post #3

VPNs for everyone?

Yep. Beat me to making the comment. This is already a solved problem. A VPN solves this problem quite well. Only exception I see is overall bandwidth usage. They'll obviously still see the total amount of traffic going across their lines and may throttle that, but that would apply to everyone equally, which I don't have an issue with. Since they won't be able to see the traffic due to encryption, they can't inhibit/b…

That doesn't work if they decide to throttle anything not on the "whitelist" of high priority sites based on your plan.
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