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Catseyetiger
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Due to court rulings allowing corporations to form mega monopolies and the freedom to curtail competing services, Freedom has been tossed aside by the courts in favor of slavery.
Prices will only climb as each Internet Service Provider screws those already paying to use a service while not allowing Hulu, You Tube, Crunchyroll, The Anime Net Work, NetFlix, and other services to compete with much higher cost internet services to be workable and released in the future to the masses. The courts are ruled by greed and corruption and freedom was tossed along time ago same with ethics. |
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Polycell
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Net neutrality regulation is a bandaid on a missing limb. The real issue is the lack of competition created by the rampant monopolies in the sector - real competition would not only provide the best incentive for treating traffic neutrally, but also to hurry the hell up with getting Americans first-world internet speeds.
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marcos torres toledo
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This is just another way to control all access to what information we want. Unless you have a unlimited checking account forget about using Netflix ,Red Box, Blockbuster you can't use cash like you could at store. Even if you could afford a pay for view service your choices would be limited. No more uncensored sub, dub videos with extras it's back to overlords wet dream a banana republic third world society. Can't afford to pay on a fix income go to hell we don't need you as a customer. In fact drop dead as so as possible parasite.
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Kougeru
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It would probably help if we would get with the freaking times. Our cable infrastructure is decades old and our companies/country are/is too cheap to upgrade them. This is why our average speed is a fraction of that of countries like Japan and South Korea. They would be able to handle so much more traffic if they would upgrade the system on their end. |
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Nayu
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This is actually my point. Net neutrality is a bandaid on a technological/infrastructure problem which is being ignore. The infrastructure in the US is terribly out of date. We need an Eisenhower/FDR-like makeover and no one has the guts to do it. Even the worse corrupt politicians aren't actually having the money they're funnelling go to anything real or long lasting, just to more bandaid kick the can down the road half-ass projects. |
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unready
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It also means that if you are a Comcast customer and you don't want to buy Comcast's video streams and if you go someplace else to get your video streams, Comcast can charge you extra for them, anyway. It's anti-competitive. (Although it's worth remembering that Comcast owns like 30% or so of Hulu now, too.) |
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zensunni
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Damn! This could be a very bad precedent! I don't like the implications for my wallet or for the net as a whole.
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Haterater
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Hate to see the internet end up like TV. With all these businesses controlling like they do.
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The Mad Manga Massacre
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Question: What does this mean for people outside the U.S.?
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unready
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Probably nothing, unless other countries decide to use it as a precedent for setting their own communications regulations. |
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kanechin
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So what does mean for someone using a isp from a cable company? Mediacom started up data caps around september 2013 and recently whenever I stream from youtube or ???? anime site everything loads around half the previous speed.
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ajr
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If you're outside the USA, this probably won't affect you much, at least not directly. Enough traffic gets routed through the USA that there probably will be some kind impact, although I've no idea how much of one or if it would be positive or negative.
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Maidenoftheredhand
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Not looking forward to what it is going to cost me in the end. And Internet services are nowhere near cheap now.
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bglassbrook
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Chances are the top level providers aren't going to play this game [too much] or their dominance would get bypassed. And these days they probably don't need any more reasons for their international customers to go elsewhere. More likely this would impact those outside trying to access content hosted on US servers, depending on if the hosting company was providing enough tribute to the troll under their bridge for less-molested access to the internet. |
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Alexander55
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Well obviously this was bound to happen. Verizon, Time Warner and the likes have been long lobbying for this and have spent well over $350 million dollars to influence Congress and the courts to bend to their will. And it seems to have worked flawlessly. As usual of politics, money speaks louder than words.
The only way Net Neutrality can come be preserved now is if other mega-corporations who are equally as powerful as the Cable/Phone companies decide to repel the decision. Companies such as Google, Amazon, Yahoo, Ebay, Microsoft, Netflix, Facebook and the likes can band together and form some kind of coalition against Verizon, Time Warner Cable, and AT&T by sending lobbyists to Washington to influence legislature like how all of them nice big corporations do it. After all, they wouldn't like the idea of having to pay cable/phone companies so that consumers have access to their site... There's also the possibility of the aforementioned Internet companies aligning themselves with the big cable/phone companies to have bandwidth prioritized to their websites while slowing it down for lesser known websites/blogs/content sites, thereby eliminating all of their competition and cementing their dominance on the web. This is a very likely scenario to occur if Google, Facebook and the likes do not object to this new ruling. The Internet, despite being an innovative tool that has been a safe-haven for freedom of speech, press, the cultivation of a free market, artistic expression, and innovation for all long time, will become another mere extension of TV, exactly how the Cable/TV companies envisioned it to be. Of course, this is all just speculation, we'll have to see what happens after this. I know for certain that I will be opting out of Time Warner, as they have already jacked up the prices of my basic Internet plan and move in with "Ultimate Internet Access" a relatively small internet business that is available in my area. |
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