There’s something rotten in the state of online video streaming
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#2Make the cable companies common carriers!
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/restore-net-neutra...
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#3I wish ISPs could stay out of the content business since their content curation and presentation are usually subpar at best.
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#4"But they built the last mile so they should be able to do whatever they want with it..." /sarcasm
You know that comment is coming to this discussion at some point.
Wish there was a good answer to this. Making internet connectivity a 'utility' has its downsides and upsides. It really is becoming a pressing issue though (and not just because of netflix being slowed).
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#5I wonder if publishing these metrics would go a long way to solving the problem. I know I'd must prefer to sign up with an ISP that doesn't throttle traffic I care about. I guess the big problem with that idea is that in many areas of North America there is very little competition in the ISP marketplace.
If the government was going to do something, I'd prefer it concentrate on increasing competition. Ideally, every home should have at least two or three options for high speed network access.
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#6"But they built the last mile so they should be able to do whatever they want with it..." /sarcasm You know that comment is coming to this discussion at some point. Wish there was a good answer to this. Making internet connectivity a 'utility' has its downsides and upsides. It really is becoming a pressing issue though (and not just because of netflix being slowed).
weren't they payed with tax money to build the infrastructure?
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#7I wish ISPs business where completely out of the content business.
Slowing competing content could be justified as a "fiduciary duty", yet it's much simpler than that: Gatekeepers and highwaymen, extracting private taxes on content they did not create.
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#8Is there any interest in a Chrome plugin that would passively report anonymized download speed for things like YouTube or Amazon? I can imagine that kind of info would be useful.
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#9We've all known this was coming for years, actually, it is amazing it has taken this long.
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#10"But they built the last mile so they should be able to do whatever they want with it..." /sarcasm You know that comment is coming to this discussion at some point. Wish there was a good answer to this. Making internet connectivity a 'utility' has its downsides and upsides. It really is becoming a pressing issue though (and not just because of netflix being slowed).
weren't they payed with tax money to build the infrastructure?
Sort of, my understanding is that they mostly received tax breaks with possibly some subsidies.
Either way, they received an incentive to do so.