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I'm on the FCC. Please stop us from killing net neutrality

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Re: I'm on the FCC. Please stop us from killing net neutrality

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post #7

Sorry I'm not buying into the panic. Between wide scale TLS deployment and larger swaths of bandwidth available, I'd rather see free market solutions so these regulatory powers can't be abused. Net neutrality only matters if your ISP can decrypt your traffic and there is a limited share of bandwidth available.

You are probably a little bit ignorant of how the internet works to make this comment. The big players are already peering with residential ISPs. That means there's a fiber line that connects Google to Comcast, to use an example. They pay for these arrangements.

The little guys have to use transit. They don't have enough clout or money to peer. Without net neutrality, ISPs could start severely degrading those connections. And there's nothing TLS can do to stop that.

Re: I'm on the FCC. Please stop us from killing net neutrality

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post #7

Sorry I'm not buying into the panic. Between wide scale TLS deployment and larger swaths of bandwidth available, I'd rather see free market solutions so these regulatory powers can't be abused. Net neutrality only matters if your ISP can decrypt your traffic and there is a limited share of bandwidth available.

TLS doesn't hide destination IP addresses

Re: I'm on the FCC. Please stop us from killing net neutrality

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post #7

Sorry I'm not buying into the panic. Between wide scale TLS deployment and larger swaths of bandwidth available, I'd rather see free market solutions so these regulatory powers can't be abused. Net neutrality only matters if your ISP can decrypt your traffic and there is a limited share of bandwidth available.

Free market solutions only work in a free market.

Do you think an ISP can't throttle/limit encrypted traffic?

Re: I'm on the FCC. Please stop us from killing net neutrality

#15
post #5

It’s amazing how the FCC can go against the American people when there is such overwhelming support for net neutrality.

> when there is such overwhelming support for net neutrality.

I think you may be overestimating how representative technical communities are compared to the general public, as well as overestimating how universally people even in technical communities agree about this.

(I also think that even with widespread agreement that wouldn't necessarily be enough, but I don't necessarily think that widespread agreement exists, either.)

Re: I'm on the FCC. Please stop us from killing net neutrality

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>Reach out to the rest of the FCC now. Tell them they can’t take away internet openness without a fight.

How?

As this article mentions, their comment system had issues (spam and DDoS) and the only other avenue I've seen is to beg our representatives (who aren't part of the December vote) to do _something_.

It was a clean and concise piece, but I was hoping that an insider would provide a new course of action.

I've seen action across online media from users (reddit, Twitter, etc) as well as among peers. But not as much from the platforms themselves. Remember SOPA? Do those pushing for this really not hear the public's outrage yet?

Re: I'm on the FCC. Please stop us from killing net neutrality

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post #5

It’s amazing how the FCC can go against the American people when there is such overwhelming support for net neutrality.

Mob support for NN does not justify it. There's a reason we let domain experts make technical decisions.

...And you believe that's what is happening with this decision?
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