Internet Neutrality laws are gone, ISPs can now block websites.

[Doomonkey]

Why should the government get to decide the extent of a service provided by a private company? Net neutrality laws were interfering with the free market.

[Ad Bot]

[JPSC]

they can't block stuff, there will always be a way to bypass it, like: navigating directly with ip addresses, foreign proxies, tor, etc

[Doomonkey]

-Nevermind-

[Mister Cheese]

Whys the government so obsessed with giving us less and less freedom on the internet

[Gojira]

Whys the government so obsessed with giving us less and less freedom on the internet

because they're old incompetent morons who don't understand technology
at least most of them are

[JPSC]

because they're old incompetent morons who don't understand technology
at least most of them are

sadly, this is true.

They think they can stop people from accessing websites by removing domain names from their records

[The Brighter Dark]

This is why I voted for Romney

[blazerblock2]

this has to be unconstitutional in some way.

[Kearn]

i dont know how letting private companies determine what access they sell you to a service is unconstitutional

[Choi]

>ISP blocks website
>customers go to new ISP
>old ISP loses money

Pretty sure blocking websites would be bad for the company

[Kearn]

yeah thats kind of how the free market works

[DrenDran]

you all voted for him

Libertarian here, granted that's not any better in this case.

[Tokerovin]

Yeah let's blame this all on Obama and not on our society being handicapped as whole.

[hodot]

Yeah let's blame this all on Obama and not on our society being handicapped as whole.

lol pretty much this

[Chrono]

Cool, now ISPs can throw away customers by blocking their favorite websites.