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Re: FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet

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Post by jqm » Thu, May 15, 2014, 4:01 PM UTC

People having the freedom to look at whatever they choose on a level playing field may not be in the interests of all concerned.

The consolidation of media companies possibly served interests other than profits. Look at what Putin is allegedly doing with the internet. Maybe in a way the eventual intent of this is the same. And for the same purposes. I don't think we should let it get started just in case.

Re: FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet

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Post by byuu » Thu, May 15, 2014, 4:02 PM UTC

xhrpost wrote: post #5

So what happened? It seems like just yesterday that the FCC was the one creating the rules around net neutrality. A federal court over-turns this and all of a sudden the FCC decides to go the complete opposite direction?

Tom Wheeler happened. Despite his industry and lobbying connections, he raised a lot of money for Obama's campaign, so he was appointed as the new FCC chairman.

Re: FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet

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Post by pavel_lishin » Thu, May 15, 2014, 4:02 PM UTC

hpaavola wrote: post #22

I don't get this whole net neautrality discussion that is going on in US (and maybe somewhere else, just haven't paid attention). Consumers pay based on speed of their connection. If ISP feels like the consumers are not paying enough, raise the prices. Service providers (not ISPs, but the ones who run servers that consumers connect to) pay based on speed of their connection. If the ISP feels like service providers ar…

> I'm four years old.

I feel like this isn't quite right.

Re: FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet

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Post by DevX101 » Thu, May 15, 2014, 4:02 PM UTC

> approved in a three-to-two vote along party lines,

Why the fuck are there party lines in the FCC? Or any other regulatory body for that matter?

Re: FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet

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Post by buro9 » Thu, May 15, 2014, 4:02 PM UTC

devx wrote: post #15

As an European I probably should be glad about this, since this combined with all the NSA spying issues and implementing backdoors into US products [1], should increasingly force innovation out of US and bring it to Europe, but somehow I'm not. All the ISPs will slow down all the major companies services, unless they pay up. There is no "faster" Internet. It's just "paying to get normal Internet back", like they've a…

Anything the US does they will eventually try and put into a trade agreement and force others to do too.

We should never look over the water and be thankful it's not happened to us, because all we're seeing is how our (near) future is likely to be.

Re: FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet

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Post by kenrikm » Thu, May 15, 2014, 4:03 PM UTC

Great! the FCC has officially sanctioned ISP's to be Trolls, demanding some gold to cross their bridge. This guarantees that there will always be multiple levels of peering speed even if the connections are upgraded and are able to easily handle the load. They won't want to give up their troll gold. That's just peachy, thanks for letting us get screwed over even more, Go USA!

Re: FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet

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Post by trurl » Thu, May 15, 2014, 4:05 PM UTC

berrypicker wrote: post #29

kirualex wrote: post #3

Yet another blow to Net-Neutrality...

I don't see a problem. You can switch ISP if your current one isn't net-neutral. Why should you force businesses to operate in certain way? They're not breaking any laws.

Clearly you aren't living in the United States. My choices are Comcast, Comcast, and Comcast.

I'm really starting to think mesh networks are going to be the only solution.

Re: FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet

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Post by wtetzner » Thu, May 15, 2014, 4:05 PM UTC

spacefight wrote: post #23

adamio wrote: post #12

The internet is slowly being transformed into cable television

Yes. And certain companies are pushing hard to make them succeed these days. Mozilla is one of them.

I don't understand this comment. Can you explain?

Re: FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet

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Post by lazyloop » Thu, May 15, 2014, 4:05 PM UTC

And now Comcast is planning data limits for all customers, what conincidence. http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/15/technology/comcast-data-limi...

Re: FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 15, 2014, 4:05 PM UTC

opendais wrote: post #18

altcognito wrote: post #7

I'm confused by this headline (and a bit by the proceeding). After watching the FCC hearing, it seemed like all of the people who were "for" open internet, and spoke of it from the consumer level (including Wheeler) voted for the proposal. The commissioners that said the FCC didn't have jurisdiction to regulate and to leave the market alone, voted against the proposal. Isn't it the case that if they had voted against…

The people at the FCC are saying the opposite of what they mean. Yes, we are in the same boat with Netflix having to pay for bandwidth as before. However, by the FCC officially sanctioning something that would have been technically illegal before the Federal ruling, they've basically reversed course and declared open season on content providers the ISPs don't like.

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