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net neutrality, the US just lost it


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Just curious what sort of internet regulations other countries have or lack and what the result has been. In the US, the FCC just voted(along party lines, big suprise there) to remove regulations from ISP's in the US. Im not an expert on the topic but the gist of the rules removed were rules that said ISP'S had to deliver all legal content on the web and had to deliver content at the same speed.

 

Whats the situation in other countries and how does it affect you?

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The net neutrality law was enacted in 2015. That means that we had 20+ years of an unregulated internet that grew exponentially and exploded from nothing to a huge part of nearly every westerners life. All that was done without a bureaucracy guiding it. I hope the repeal stands and i doubt anyone can give an example of this law benefiting their life.

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well they already pull some of the crap they are not suppose to anyway -- comcast will either block or slow down streaming sites, even though they claim they dont -- i don't understand everything on the bill but from the looks of some of it very possible it will limit much of what you do or see -- or possible that prices will climb so high people have to lose internet

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this is bullshit! general public hated the idea of this and it still gets passed.....

 

Seems many things are getting passed against popular opinion these days...

 

 

The net neutrality law was enacted in 2015. That means that we had 20+ years of an unregulated internet that grew exponentially and exploded from nothing to a huge part of nearly every westerners life. All that was done without a bureaucracy guiding it. I hope the repeal stands and i doubt anyone can give an example of this law benefiting their life.

I see both sides of that argument that the big ISP's were not violating any of the rules that were enacted at the time it was enacted but I'm not sure that means they never will. How exactly will this benefit ISP's if they have/had no intention of practices that would have violated the repealed regulations?

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well they already pull some of the crap they are not suppose to anyway -- comcast will either block or slow down streaming sites, even though they claim they dont -- i don't understand everything on the bill but from the looks of some of it very possible it will limit much of what you do or see -- or possible that prices will climb so high people have to lose internet

I remember when netflix claimed that isp providers were slowing down their service in particular, but Im pretty sure that it was never proven to be a deliberate action. Netflix offers a service that simply overwhelmed the isps at the time due to the huge quantity of people that began using it on a frequent basis. They came to an agreement with isp providers to connect directly to their network and offer a better product to their customers, capitalism at work.

 

As to ISP providers limiting access to content, that's simply not going to happen. Staying under net neutrality laws is far more likely to see a censoring of the internet then allowing isp providers to regulate themselves. The internet has become far more censored since net neutrality was enacted (non mainstream media sources on youtube have been barred from ad revenue, the whole "fake news" nonsense, etc).

 

I cant even comprehend how prices will be raised so high to cause people to lose internet access. It's very bad business practice to price your customers out of the market. Individual ISP providers could do something that stupid, but then there would be other providers rushing to scoop those customers up. What will probably happen is a more varied tiering of internet access, allowing people to pay higher prices for better speeds. I'd have no problem with that at all.

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I remember when netflix claimed that isp providers were slowing down their service in particular, but Im pretty sure that it was never proven to be a deliberate action. Netflix offers a service that simply overwhelmed the isps at the time due to the huge quantity of people that began using it on a frequent basis. They came to an agreement with isp providers to connect directly to their network and offer a better product to their customers, capitalism at work.

 

As to ISP providers limiting access to content, that's simply not going to happen. Staying under net neutrality laws is far more likely to see a censoring of the internet then allowing isp providers to regulate themselves. The internet has become far more censored since net neutrality was enacted (non mainstream media sources on youtube have been barred from ad revenue, the whole "fake news" nonsense, etc).

 

I cant even comprehend how prices will be raised so high to cause people to lose internet access. It's very bad business practice to price your customers out of the market. Individual ISP providers could do something that stupid, but then there would be other providers rushing to scoop those customers up. What will probably happen is a more varied tiering of internet access, allowing people to pay higher prices for better speeds. I'd have no problem with that at all.

yea like i say i don't know the in's and out's of it or exactly what all it pertains too -- i do know that isp providers like comcast do throttle speeds and block certain sites though as i have had issues with blocked or super slow sites then i try with a vpn and the sites work perfect -- call comcast and raise hell then they claim they do not block or throttle but after raising hell all the sudden the sites work fine -- happens to lots of streaming site for iptv or other stuff cause comcast rather you buy their cable service (which i already have also)

 

i do know letting the government have total control of something is a bad mistake though

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