Net Neutrality...
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Geekman1222
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Comcast, Verizon, and ATT are crooks they try to monopolize everything and cut the middle man out they have a long LONG history of this. Unless that competition or middle man is willing to bend over backwards for these companies thats how its been for years lately, and thats from a business stand point. A customer stand point, the customer service is generally crap their support is crap, and they try to nickle and dime every customer they can get to do so (speaking from experience). Why should you assume that they will not eventually use this opportunity to slowly integrate their own agendas? They will because if they do it to competitors and customers they will do it again on the open web where they have less control over their own infrastructures they invested dearly in and worked so hard to monopolize later.
It will likely be a slow progression so its not alarming to the public. But what will likely happen at worst if they get greedy (likely) is they will prioritize their own networks and IP's as was mentioned in the video so THEIR network is the BEST and FASTEST, likely forcing companies to perpetuate the "filter bubble" so people only see their content and IP's. It will be a night mare for small business's that wants to compete with what little freedoms they have in the middle markets. How do you think Netflix got so popular with their streaming and built a competition to cable tv?? Whats even more worse if you take it a step further it will mean political views are more in their favor as the internet is basically the largest source of information political or not they can choose more of what they control.
Im all for freedom of opinion, press, and market. But with the back lash the masses are giving on this it only furthers the point that this is likely a stupid idea and the informed public do not want. It is likely heavily lobbied as all things are too.
Theres my two cents
Also i just saw LoneSage's post again "So, I mean a government internet provider would be a good thing, right?"
I think thats a BAD idea as well and is open to potential abuse by the gooberment, the real problem in this country right now is these MEGA corporations are getting away with more than they could dream. A better solution is to restrict these companies more so they have more competition, which drives costs down for the consumer, and not have three guys sitting at a table taking all the cake and eating it too. This country right now has a terrible monopoly problem and I thought there was laws to protect consumers against this...
It will likely be a slow progression so its not alarming to the public. But what will likely happen at worst if they get greedy (likely) is they will prioritize their own networks and IP's as was mentioned in the video so THEIR network is the BEST and FASTEST, likely forcing companies to perpetuate the "filter bubble" so people only see their content and IP's. It will be a night mare for small business's that wants to compete with what little freedoms they have in the middle markets. How do you think Netflix got so popular with their streaming and built a competition to cable tv?? Whats even more worse if you take it a step further it will mean political views are more in their favor as the internet is basically the largest source of information political or not they can choose more of what they control.
Im all for freedom of opinion, press, and market. But with the back lash the masses are giving on this it only furthers the point that this is likely a stupid idea and the informed public do not want. It is likely heavily lobbied as all things are too.
Theres my two cents
Also i just saw LoneSage's post again "So, I mean a government internet provider would be a good thing, right?"
I think thats a BAD idea as well and is open to potential abuse by the gooberment, the real problem in this country right now is these MEGA corporations are getting away with more than they could dream. A better solution is to restrict these companies more so they have more competition, which drives costs down for the consumer, and not have three guys sitting at a table taking all the cake and eating it too. This country right now has a terrible monopoly problem and I thought there was laws to protect consumers against this...
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We've got wireless ISPs here that use unlicensed-band microwave dishes. They typically run at 20mbps or so and cost about $100 a month. The municipal fiber network I referenced costs $70, I believe, for 1000mbps symmetric.
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I could pay 5grand one time and have a 1gig wireless link using one these.
https://www.ubnt.com/airfiber/airfiber5/
The point I'm making is that the public could start their own if connectivity to each other was all they needed. They could share information municipalities could hook in their libraries, hospitals ,etc. Ubiquiti even has routers that are made to be run off solar panels.
The point being is the internet from its original purpose is gone. It's now just a entertainment ecosystem. To which I say fuck it.
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He lost me when he started talking about people buying their own networks and setting them up.
If the government does away with net neutrality, but keeps all their government applications online, discouraging hard copies, do the ISPs gain color of government?
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Military?
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A lot of the internet traffic is dedicated to large hardon colliding streaming streaming videos
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The internet evolved from ARPANET, which was created in 1969 by the U.S. Department of Defense, and was the first network to use TCP/IP protocols. It was designed so that if a nuclear strike knocked out part of the network, the rest of the network would still be functioning (it could route around any damage), and so the military could still use it to communicate.
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How much will they break down packages?
Forums
Streaming
Social Media (Facebook/Twitter)
Etc etc?
On the news they said places will be able to give faster and slower speeds to their choice of websites
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Keep this shit bumped. Im at work and want to know what happens asap. Is there a website to get updates on this?
When is the vote happening?
When is the vote happening?
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Its starting now
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Wow, my girl Rosenworcel was just like "so we dont draw this out, I'll just agree". That was pretty much all she wrote. I was hoping she would actually give a speech. She seems irritated.