Honestly—who does this benefit, apart from ISPs?
Entrenched services that can pay the premium. It's their "don't worry about upstart competitors" tax.
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
The FCC can regulate the internet under title II. They are simply refusing to.
In 2002, Colin Powell's son, Michael, was the Chairman of the FCC. He determined that broadband services weren't covered by Title II, and that they could be regulated 'better' under different statutes. That is the genesis for all of these problems. Today, Michael Powell is the President of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association.[1] Of course, today's FCC could walk that Title II ruling back, and reclassi…
Whatever the FCC does (well, except maybe not regulating at all) is going to be met with lawsuits for years.
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#33In six months FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler will be a VP at NBC Universal/Comcast. Not a bribe; just coincidence.
Google, Apple and Netflix just have to bribe harder
Why? If the ISP's push the issue too hard, the public will be up in arms for net neutrality. If they just push hard enough to keep small companies from competing it will be a win/win for everybody since the ISP's make even more money, and the internet companies get to avoid new players.
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#34As I was reading, I thought this was just a move by the FCC to get the people to understand that the internet without net neutrality is a nightmare. As I'm reading the HN comments, I'm not so sure anymore...
That's, huh, way too much social engineering.
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#35Looks like I wasted my time writing Mr. Wheeler an email on this very subject a few weeks ago.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
The FCC can regulate the internet under title II. They are simply refusing to.
In 2002, Colin Powell's son, Michael, was the Chairman of the FCC. He determined that broadband services weren't covered by Title II, and that they could be regulated 'better' under different statutes. That is the genesis for all of these problems. Today, Michael Powell is the President of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association.[1] Of course, today's FCC could walk that Title II ruling back, and reclassi…
Are the lawsuits the only difficulty? Is precedent so important for something like the FCC? I can imagine it, I guess.
I'm asking out of curiousity.
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#37I read this as FCC plans to allow slow lanes.
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#38To strike a contrarian tone, how much is this going to matter a handful of years from now as the internet at large and bandwidth to the home continues to increase? In a decade is it unreasonable to expect that "really fast" home internet is 1 gigbit? At that point even your pokey 50mbit connection already has 10x-20x the bandwidth Netflix sees for a "good" connection (their metric). Does this make it harder for Netflix and future video streaming companies to send us 4k video, sure, but I struggle to come up with too many other ways that this will hurt.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google, Apple and Netflix just have to bribe harder
Why? If the ISP's push the issue too hard, the public will be up in arms for net neutrality. If they just push hard enough to keep small companies from competing it will be a win/win for everybody since the ISP's make even more money, and the internet companies get to avoid new players.
I'm not sure how you'd categorize Google, Apple and Netflix generally as "ISPs."
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#40To strike a contrarian tone, how much is this going to matter a handful of years from now as the internet at large and bandwidth to the home continues to increase? In a decade is it unreasonable to expect that "really fast" home internet is 1 gigbit? At that point even your pokey 50mbit connection already has 10x-20x the bandwidth Netflix sees for a "good" connection (their metric). Does this make it harder for Netfl…
Do you live in America? I find it laughable that our internet will get that good unless Google gets Fiber into large enough areas forcing competition.
Even then, ComcastWarnerXfinity will find ways to jack up prices.