FYI Net Neutrality has been repealed. Time to say goodbye to the internet

I don't get this net neutrality.

Are you telling me, you have to pay an extra 10 bucks in addition to whatever your ISP is charging you so that you can visit yutub?
There is now nothing preventing my ISP from doing exactly that. In fact, that graphic is from an ISP in a country that doesn't have legal protection on Net Neutrality.

That they don't at this second doesn't mean that they won't in the future.

I think what's more likely is that they'll go back to the shenanigans that made it necessary in the first place (advantaging their own services at the expense of competitors, like Comcast did with netflix vs. Xfinity, or AT&T did with Facetime, and numerous ISPs have done with VPNs).

Of course, because that isn't happening RIGHT THIS SECOND, I'm a snow flake and the sky is falling according to @King Wickie, @nukes, and @Amstel, but you have to wonder why they'd fall on the side of some of the least trusted corporations in history (here in the US, our ISPs, especially our cable providers, are some of the worst companies around when it comes to service and pricing).

I'm of the opinion that the US taxpayer bought and paid for these networks with utility easements, tax breaks, and outright subsidy, and that ISPs reselling us access should be only selling access, not determining what kind of information is and isn't allowed to go through the pipe they're selling access to.

Because these companies have a long history of being bad actors, and because they've colluded so as not to compete in markets (in the US, > 50% of the people have 1 or fewer broadband providers), their "natural" monopolies should be regulated to provide a minimum standard of service. Classifying them as title II providers did that by making them common carriers and allowing the FCC (our regulating body) to enforce net neutrality.
 
There is now nothing preventing my ISP from doing exactly that. In fact, that graphic is from an ISP in a country that doesn't have legal protection on Net Neutrality.

That they don't at this second doesn't mean that they won't in the future.

I think what's more likely is that they'll go back to the shenanigans that made it necessary in the first place (advantaging their own services at the expense of competitors, like Comcast did with netflix vs. Xfinity, or AT&T did with Facetime, and numerous ISPs have done with VPNs).

Of course, because that isn't happening RIGHT THIS SECOND, I'm a snow flake and the sky is falling according to @King Wickie, @nukes, and @Amstel, but you have to wonder why they'd fall on the side of some of the least trusted corporations in history (here in the US, our ISPs, especially our cable providers, are some of the worst companies around when it comes to service and pricing).

I'm of the opinion that the US taxpayer bought and paid for these networks with utility easements, tax breaks, and outright subsidy, and that ISPs reselling us access should be only selling access, not determining what kind of information is and isn't allowed to go through the pipe they're selling access to.

Because these companies have a long history of being bad actors, and because they've colluded so as not to compete in markets (in the US, > 50% of the people have 1 or fewer broadband providers), their "natural" monopolies should be regulated to provide a minimum standard of service. Classifying them as title II providers did that by making them common carriers and allowing the FCC (our regulating body) to enforce net neutrality.


TSRH
 
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...and this is a real tweet from a real united states senator...jeebus fukn krist...
 
Of course, because that isn't happening RIGHT THIS SECOND, I'm a snow flake and the sky is falling according to @King Wickie, @nukes, and @Amstel, but you have to wonder why they'd fall on the side of some of the least trusted corporations in history (here in the US, our ISPs, especially our cable providers, are some of the worst companies around when it comes to service and pricing).

They fall on the side of those least trusted corporations is because they are told too and they lack the ability to free think things through.
 
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Unlike @nukes and @yeppers, my replies on this topic are filled with facts instead of gifs.
I don't believe I've replied to anything on this topic but I will now.

If this deregulation means I have to pay extra money to watch @Jehannum have a meltdown over a good Samaritan giving bottled water to homeless people then I am against it!