If this sounds like Deja Vu then you were awake the past years. It seems like every year the ISP lobbyists have pushed the FFC to end what they call "restrictions" on them by ending Net Neutrality.
Odds are if they don't succeed this year, they will be back next year. As it is said in Warhammer 40,000 "It only takes a single moment of laxity for heresy to take root".
Good riddance to it.
I think the most shocking (if not suprising) aspect of this is how hard the ISPs have embraced the age of missinformation with anti-net neutrality bot spam all over social media. Anyone who supports the abolishment of NN is someone who doesn't understand it.
On 7/14/2017 at 2:12 AM, Admiral Deathrain said:I think the most shocking (if not suprising) aspect of this is how hard the ISPs have embraced the age of missinformation with anti-net neutrality bot spam all over social media. Anyone who supports the abolishment of NN is someone who doesn't understand it.
I found it funny when Comcast (most likely the public relations branch) released a gif on Facebook in (lip) support of Net Neutrality with "promises" that they won't throttle speeds. I think we all know that they have already proven to be capable and willing to do such a thing and that they already invested $$$$$ in counter campaign and anti Net neutrality lobbyists. As I posted in Face Book lobbying speaks louder than PR.
Basically what I posted in the Android Netrunner forums, this is a 7 point agenda and they are about 1 advancement token off from scoring.
Edited by MarinealverOn 7/14/2017 at 5:12 AM, Admiral Deathrain said:Anyone who supports the abolishment of NN is someone who doesn't understand it.
Au contraire. I find most people that support net neutrality know about as much as their favorite video game streamer or HuffPost writer tells them about it.
Judging by the pretentiousness of your comment, there's a good chance your knowledge of the subject is lacking as well.
Edited by Arrowman7 hours ago, Arrowman said:Au contraire. I find most people that support net neutrality know about as much as their favorite video game streamer or HuffPost writer tells them about it.
Judging by the pretentiousness of your comment, there's a good chance your knowledge of the subject is lacking as well.
Enlighten me, what disadvantages do I have from NN as consumer, advocate for free speech and to a reasonable extend market, and someone who relies on the internet for work? I am not a strict supporter of the most extreme definition of NN, but rather one of the definition that requires equality of services (under reasonable restrictions that dissallow blocking a kind of service entirely and with the availiablility of unrestricted plans under conditions that don't divert far from those today), although equality of all data is still preferable, as that encourages and enables innovation most.
Ultimately I am in Germany where we have Telekommunikationsgesetz paragraph 41a and EU legislation that protect at least an equality of services, so I am not directly affected by the most recent US debate, but the internet is global and services I use may very well suffer. Not to mention how the US likes to push their shoddy regulations on to the rest of the world...