FCC/Net Neutrality

yes this is how I’m coming back. So if you don’t know, Ajit Pai is trying to make it so that large companies have advantages over others, meaning that we might have to pay for things such as YouTube and Skype.

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fun fact, New Zealand doesn't have net neutrality, you don't need to regulate that type of thing when you have competition in the market.

I support net neutrality, but instead of a classification that can be changed on a whim, it needs to be legislated (which obviously won't happen, at least in this congress).

But maybe instead of trying to protect net neutrality, local monopolies should be broken up to encourage competition in the US ISP market. Then if a ISP makes a dick move and tries to slow down a site it is (relatively) easy to switch. This is the system that exists in a lot of places (NZ and Australia included) and we haven't had any problems so far.

 

Just a question:
If this gets passed will we have to pay for YouTube and other things like that?

 

probably

 

I think it will be more like the ISP going to the website and making them pay money to not get put in a 'slow lane'.

e.g. Time Warner Cable might go to YouTube and be like pay us and we'll not slow you/make you faster. And if they don't pay they slow them down, meaning YTs competitors have an advantage for all Time Warner's customers.

TLDR: The websites will be paying to go faster, not the consumers paying to go to specific sites.

 

communinst jerry

 

Come and join my communist revolution, comrade. We shall instate Lenin's Bolshevik views into the American government!

 

Looking into the situation, I’ve moved from being strongly for NN, to 50/50. The FCC’s objective is to remove government regulation that keeps the internet the way it is. But when that regulation is removed, there should be competition between ISPs. There are two possible outcomes, the bad one is that the ISPs collude together and hike up the prices and take advantage of the consumers, the good one is that there is competition in the market, encouraging ISPs to make really good package deals for consumers to buy their products. If an ISP blocks or intentionally slows down a website, consumers could switch to another ISP, which deincentivizes screwing over consumers.

 

Keep it. Too late to go back on it after obama implemented it since its only a few companies dominating the market rn.