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Thread: Bye-Bye Net Neutrality

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    Bye-Bye Net Neutrality

    Yesterday the FCC voted to kill net neutrality.

    Results will be:

    • hobbling of competition for big corps like Amazon, Google, Comcast, Times Warner, ATT
    • filtering of content for "objectionable" keywords or images
    • elimination of non-pay services for news, music & video
    • the end of growth of the internet and innovative new internet services
    • withering of the arts in general
    • the end of viral social movements

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    A word of consolation:

    the world wide web is bigger then the USA.

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    There is no consolation. This is criminal. These greedy bastards need to be stopped and that will only happen with the outcry of an informed public, which seems to be a stretch these days.

    Oh, and it will definitely move to the rest of the world from here.
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    That is true. USA is third in the number of users behind China and India. But I believe the USA still leads the field in content providers (can't find figures in a quick search... [harbinger of the future?])

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    Quote Originally Posted by ronmac View Post
    These greedy bastards need to be stopped and that will only happen with the outcry of an informed public, which seems to be a stretch these days.
    Oh, there's been PLENTY of public comment. Tens of millions of complaints from consumers.

    But the big telecoms have been lobbying hard, and like everything in the Trump Administration, lobbying = $$$ and $$$ = results. It's rule-making tailored to the highest bidder.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rcarlberg View Post
    Oh, there's been PLENTY of public comment. Tens of millions of complaints from consumers.

    But the big telecoms have been lobbying hard, and like everything in the Trump Administration, lobbying = $$$ and $$$ = results. It's rule-making tailored to the highest bidder.
    Well, yes, there has been a lot of public comment. But, a majority of the general public still doesn't even know what it is. We need much much more outcry.
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