Should we be worried about FCC killing net neutrality?

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  1. la-li-lu-le-lo

    la-li-lu-le-lo ラリルレロ

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    You have this totally backwards. The point of net neutrality is to protect the consumers and preserve the free internet. Don't be confused about who will really benefit from this repeal; it will allow the ISPs to exploit their customers and build even larger monopolies. It will also stifle competition and innovation. They want to trick people into thinking this will be good for them, but the average internet users and small companies trying to build new sites and services are the ones who will suffer because of this.

    The basic idea of net neutrality is that everyone who uses the internet should have equal access to all sites on the internet. This was the intent of the internet from its beginning. This is something that benefits anyone who uses the internet.

    Your second paragraph makes no sense whatsoever. Firstly, Google does have their own ISP - it's called Google Fiber. Facebook doesn't (not in the US, at least), but why would they? And what does that have to do with regulations?

    Also, the vast majority of Americans support net neutrality, but that doesn't matter in this current mess we call a society.
     
  2. MBMM

    MBMM Powered by Pied Piper

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    Unfortunately you're not wrong in the slightest. We'll see where all this nonsense will take us.
     
  3. pato

    pato Resolute Member

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    Internet before 2015 was no apocalypse.

    Also Netflix and others are hypocrite, when ISPs in USA and other countries offered packages that included no limits on them, they didn't complain, yet some goverment agencies felt that it would be against NN because they had the privilege to be unlimited. Plus the fact that as I've said, they can censor anyone they disagree with, and that's is no different behaviour than a ISP gimping them.

    Also, from what I've read on Cnet, it seems that the whole fuss started because netflix nowadays have 1/3 of the internet traffic alone and started to make pressure on ISP infrastructure, why Valve with Steam didn't even bother with the whole thing in the first place and didn't even sign the petition? Maybe because a lot of netflix users are going HD and 4K to the point that they are pretty much downloading a GTA V equivalent size in a few hours or one day like this?

    And about ISP monopoly, thanks to the government in the first place with regulations that cost millions to billions, in Romania there is no such thing in the first place and people do whatever they can to make an infrastructure, I live in Brazil, one of the most bureaucractic and corrupts countries in the world, and I know that goverment only causes trouble.

    "Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." - Ronald Reagan

    Of course ISPs are no saints in this thing, but why instead of deregulating, which would create new and small ISPs that could offer a better service, you would keep saying that the government should meddle in and maintain the big companies power on?

    NN at best is just a paliative solution, as long you keep the big ISPs monopolies on, you will be bothered again in a short time.

    It's like banning lootboxes thinking that it solve the problem, EA and others would release the stuff in paid DLC and people again would buy it, instead, stop buying their products and support developers with a good rep.
     
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    Pikkon "Moving in Stereo"

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