We are all fucked. The vote was to overturn a Obama act that keeps the internet open and "free". Basically ISP will now be able to charge you for visiting certain websites, can throttle speed of websites of there choosing, basically rule over and whore out the internet.
I read this was coming back in 2013. In the near future, every internet user will have to put in a personal username & account number, to log onto the net. Also, each person will pay a monthly fee just to get online, which is separate from paying your monthly bill to Verizon, etc......
You missed your chance. Protest has been going on for MONTHS. The vote passed. Its over.
Until ISP's actually do this let's refrain from going into panic mode. Comcast/Xfinity and Verizon FIOS compete against each other. I have triple play with FIOS including all the premium channels HBO/Epix/Starz/Showtime and pay $251 a month. Do you really think FIOS wants to lose me as a customer and return to Xfinity. I used to be a Comcast customer. I will grant you that FIOS offers no deals to retain me as a customer but that could just be in the geographic area I live in. Say you are in NYC and have three options for an ISP. Now if all three of the ISP's make a handshake agreement to squeeze customers it will happen. It's still a competitive business with people cutting cords. I think providers do want to eliminate bandwidth pigs. Gamers and downloaders who use tremendous amounts of the pipe. Also in the future you can get a different administration who can overturn this. They can appoint a new FCC commissioner and congress can vote to repeal the law.
Yes and Yes. Its only not lawful if its against a law. A large number of countries in this world have a "filtered" internet by the government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_surveillance_by_country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_surveillance_by_country
Within the next 3 to 4 years, 8-15 states will have legalized sports betting in america.
You sound like a wealthy older person that barely uses the internet. I dont mean that in a name calling way, its just I dont think you understand the dramatic effect this will have on everyone. The trickle down is huge. Not to mention the complete and udder datamining that will begin on customers/users. (or should I say get worse)
Also a little known fact. Did you ever notice there are 1 or 2 ISPs avalable in any part of the country. Well that is intentional. Another handshake deal with the goverment. They all agreed to divide up the country and not compete with eachother. Google it. Its real.
Will Net-Neutrality Zealots Apologize When The Internet Fails To Crash And Burn?
Shorn of all the histrionics, the FCC's net-neutrality regime was little more than a blatant power grab by the Obama administration, and one that was completely unnecessary. There had been no evidence of consumer harm under the rules in place before 2015, and most of the claims about what ISPs will do — like those listed by Clyburn — are little more than ghost stories.
Indeed, the only blocking and other forms of discrimination practiced on the internet these days has been from net-neutrality advocates like Twitter, Google and Facebook.
In any case, the idea that the internet can only survive and thrive with the heavy hand of government guiding it has no historical support whatsoever.
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/net-neutrality-regulations-overturned-ajit-pai/
Shorn of all the histrionics, the FCC's net-neutrality regime was little more than a blatant power grab by the Obama administration, and one that was completely unnecessary. There had been no evidence of consumer harm under the rules in place before 2015, and most of the claims about what ISPs will do — like those listed by Clyburn — are little more than ghost stories.
Indeed, the only blocking and other forms of discrimination practiced on the internet these days has been from net-neutrality advocates like Twitter, Google and Facebook.
In any case, the idea that the internet can only survive and thrive with the heavy hand of government guiding it has no historical support whatsoever.
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/net-neutrality-regulations-overturned-ajit-pai/
