Battle for the Net! Protect Net Neutrality!

[F3d323]

I already have stuffty internet. This wouldn't affect me.

they'd charge you extra with stuffty speed

[Ad Bot]

[Pie Crust]

Todos nuestros proveedores son una mierda. Hay que buscar el mejor de todos. Fibertel por lo menos tiene 12mbps. Arnet tiene HASTA 12mbps. Speedy lo mismo.

[Headcrab Zombie]

Net Neutrality is like saying we should all get caviar for the same price as bread.  It kills business´s freedom.

I bet you believe Ted Cruz's "net neutrality is obamacare for the internet!!!1" crap

This is completely wrong.

This has nothing to do with the government telling ISPs what they can and cannot charge

All that needs to be done is to classify ISPs as a common carrier. There's already tons of services classified as common carriers, and it doesn't hurt them because "ogm govurnment regulation bad!!!" because that's not what it is
All it means is, for example, Pizza Hut can not pay the telephone company to drop calls to Domino's
Apple can not pay the airlines to not allow Microsoft employees to fly.
Using your caviar example, it would mean that a caviar company could not pay the grocery store to stop selling bread
This isn't "killing business' freedom"
It's the exact opposite.
It prevents big business from squashing competition.
Right now, Comcast could, at any moment, decide to completely block Netflix and Hulu and make you buy their streaming service instead. Net neutrality would not allow this

[IkeTheGeneric]

Net Neutrality is like saying we should all get caviar for the same price as bread.  It kills business´s freedom.

sorry sir but comcast is pretty much example numero uno of the worst that can happen when a business abuses their freedoms

[Ragequit]

wasn't this decided like last year

[Nal]

LOL

[Ragequit]

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LOL

lmao i noticed that ad yesterday

[Ipquarx]

oh my god that is amazing
all research sites should link to it

[Fab]

does this affects all countries?

[the hacker]

https://twitter.com/netflix/status/570672211209674752
Rotondo retweeted this. Good to know everyone is defending Net Neutrality.

[Taciturn]

You're assuming that 99% of ISPs aren't run by asshats. Without net neutrality, and I might as well use your brown townogy: Websites that pay get bread, same as normal. Websites that aren't are given the crumbs from the floor.
In other words, when they talk about paying for 'faster speed', they actually mean 'pay or we'll make your website's speeds act like it's the 90's'. It's the opposite.

It doesn't matter who the company is run by.  Purchases are independent of each other. 
You pay $x for crappy internet and $y for internet that isn't total garbage.  Just because I have the money to buy Internet Y doesn't mean you have a right to the same thing. 

I bet you believe Ted Cruz's "net neutrality is obamacare for the internet!!!1" crap

Who?  I don't care about the stupid politics behind this, I care that every time the government makes a well-meaning mandate like this the economy is slightly less free. 

[Rigel]

oh my god that is amazing
all research sites should link to it

[Ipquarx]

It doesn't matter who the company is run by.  Purchases are independent of each other.  
You pay $x for crappy internet and $y for internet that isn't total garbage.  Just because I have the money to buy Internet Y doesn't mean you have a right to the same thing.

That's not what it's saying at all, what comcast and other internet companies are doing is artificially throttling your internet down from what you payed for it based on what website you visit.
An example of this is, let's say that comcast really hates google fiber. Comcast then detects if you're trying to visit the google fiber website, and throttles your internet speeds down from, say, the 1000KB/s that you paid money to have down to 50KB/s to try and prevent people from getting google fiber's service.

It has absolutely nothing to do with how much you pay to have internet. All it says is that all internet traffic has to be treated equally, IE they can't throttle your speeds based on what website you visit. Again, nothing to do with how much you pay for internet speed.

[Nonnel]

they're probably going to keep stuffting out these internet regulation ideas until people stop noticing and they pass

[Headcrab Zombie]

the economy is slightly less free.  

You should try actually reading my post
Then if you had a decent amount of intelligence you'd understand this is the exact opposite
Again, this has NOTHING to do with the price you pay for YOUR internet service.
Net neutrality is not about your internet service, but what you use it for
To extend your caviar brown townogy, it's like if you had to pay one price for your caviar if you were putting it on bread, but pay more if you wanted to eat it on crackers. And then if you don't pay that increased price for the caviar for your crackers, the caviar company goes after the cracker company for that money.
 

they're probably going to keep stuffting out these internet regulation ideas until people stop noticing and they pass

This has nothing to do with internet regulation
The only thing being regulated is ISPs, and in a way that countless other services already are, and they work great for us
I forget the term for it, but capitalism and free market doesn't work with monopolies, so there's quite a few monopolies where the government intervenes to prevent them from becoming predatory