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Fox News says killing N.N. will save the internet
IkeTheGeneric:
--- Quote from: Kearn on December 17, 2017, 02:24:22 AM ---feel free to pay them to run fiber optic out to me though id appreciate it
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This was already tried, they just pocketed the money because they're corrupt as forget and there's almost no oversight involved. This is why removing regulations was a bad thing.
Mr. Opioid:
It's typical that services like Fox News would do stuff like this
Kearn:
--- Quote from: IkeTheGeneric on December 17, 2017, 02:26:22 AM ---they just pocketed the money because they're corrupt as forget and there's almost no oversight involved
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almost like everything the government touches with "free money"
IkeTheGeneric:
--- Quote from: Kearn on December 17, 2017, 02:42:37 AM ---almost like everything the government touches with "free money"
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the living rhetoric vending machine
otto-san:
--- Quote from: Kearn on December 17, 2017, 01:51:52 AM ---https://www.cnet.com/news/netflix-reaches-streaming-traffic-agreement-with-comcast/
big companies using absurd amounts of bandwidth and flooring everyone else with the ISPs unable to do anything to ensure everything else is able to function in resource-limited situations
netflix and youtube alone were already well over 50% combined in 2015, can't imagine that's improved
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a20138/netflix-interview-wired-traffic-exceeds-internet-capacity/
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right yeah, i can definitely see that as a potential issue for ISPs, especially as the use of these kinds of services grows. the way you were coming across is that you were suspicious about the motives of pro-NN corporations and had worries that they would somehow be enabled to hurt consumers more directly with net neutrality in place. if you can think of anything like that i'd be interested in hearing it cus i can't personally even come up with anything
--- Quote from: Kearn on December 17, 2017, 02:42:37 AM ---almost like everything the government touches with "free money"
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the solution, then, would be to implement oversight measures that make sure companies are using taxpayer money properly. the problem here isn't the concept itself
a lot of the issues in the US i think do have to do with the cost of actually becoming competitive in the broadband market. i'm definitely in favor of actually giving ISPs assistance in expanding their infrastructure like mentioned before if we can make sure that they actually use the money to build and upgrade. maybe even specific subsidies could be made for expansion in rural areas. i don't think the answer is to let ISPs start picking out their customers' packets to figure out how much more money they should be making from them. giving ISPs the power to do that is naive and there's already plenty of evidence to prove that suspicion