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[NEWS] Yet again the FCC is threatening net neutrality (PETITION)
otto-san:
i do wonder if more cities will start exploring the idea of city-owned broadband access like chattanooga did. cities already often own local power, water, gas, and waste, so i don't see why they couldn't own internet access as well. i can't say if i like that idea more or less than cable companies having a local monopoly but it's certainly an idea that would stop companies like comcast from being able to widely implement such Bullstuff
Red Spy:
--- Quote from: Master Matthew² on November 26, 2017, 03:57:13 PM ---The more people pull the "no one else is doing anything, so why should I?" mindsets out of their ass, the more likely the companies are to explore that vacancy where you pulled that bullstuff from your starfish.
Thats how.
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that's the most convoluted 'you're forgeted' i've ever heard
Tactical Nuke:
considering that they didn't try selling the web in packages before the rules were passed, the only reason I could possibly see them doing it now is that pro-NN alarmists freaking out about how they would do something like that indirectly gave them the idea in doing so
aka it's your guys' fault
otto-san:
--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on November 26, 2017, 04:20:03 PM ---considering that they didn't try selling the web in packages before the rules were passed, the only reason I could possibly see them doing it now is that pro-NN alarmists freaking out about how they would do something like that indirectly gave them the idea in doing so
aka it's your guys' fault
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they did/are. not in the sense that you might be thinking, but mobile carriers especially have played around with ideas where you pay some amount each month to remove certain sites from your data cap or allow access to certain sites
two examples i can remember:
https://readwrite.com/2011/01/04/uh_oh_internet_basic_mobile_video_will_be_youtube/
https://www.t-mobile.com/offer/binge-on-streaming-video.html
even if they're cleverly guised as something good for consumers, they're still restrictive and anti-competitive
gr8dayseth:
--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on November 26, 2017, 04:20:03 PM ---considering that they didn't try selling the web in packages before the rules were passed, the only reason I could possibly see them doing it now is that pro-NN alarmists freaking out about how they would do something like that indirectly gave them the idea in doing so
aka it's your guys' fault
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good lord ur trying so hard to make us seem like we're the bad guys here aren't ya
but i mean they did already in some other countries so it's not totally out of the blue that they'd decide to do that here too, plus the stuff that otto said