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The "fast lane" proposal is the death knell for sites like FR. Do you think the big liberal media outfits are going to give a conservative political forum a fair chunk of bandwidth, when their liberal buddies have tons more money to pay for faster/better/more reliable access?
If you think so, you're dreaming.... because this FCC proposal is the coming of the nightmare.
Have at, fellow FReepers....
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I forgot what the anti-net neutrality case is - can anybody refresh my memory?
Just wait until a Lois Learner is in charge of which web sites are allowed to vend bits.
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I think the government and the major carriers are less interested in privileging certain content providers than they are in suppressing certain protocols - e.g. bittorrent.
Why do we even need an FCC?
FreeRepublic would not be affected by a system that permits Netflix and Amazon to pay extra for a high speed delivery of HD video. Most web browsing experiences don’t need multi-megabit throughput. Emailing and reading news web pages can tolerate multi-second delays that would be distracting to movie viewers. This is not the end of the world. My first FreeRepublic visit was via a 9600 baud dial up modem. I don’t remember the experience as painful.
Example is the way the cellphone companies limit you to small amount of data like 5g per month and restrict you from tethering the cellphone to your computer so you can see the website on a bigger screen.
Right now there are ways around this using “user agent” and a plugin for IE and Firefox but that could be blocked in the future.
T-Mobile blocks tethering and puts up a page that tells you to pay more money for very limited 1gb for mobile hotspot for $10 more. You can pay more and more for each GB up 11gb for $70 per month. 11gb is not much if you watch video. If you go over your artificially capped data plan your speed drops to 2g which means like dial up speed.
There is no limit for the bandwidth, it is artificial just like charging you for texting when a phone call uses far more data.
Now imagine the democrat party deciding which sites will be blocked or slowed down just as they are using the federal agencies now like the IRS stop democracy!
Even such leading Lefty Journ-O-Listers as Ron Fournier think that if the FCC goes ahead with this, the Millenials are going to go absolutely ape-dung and tear Democrat heads off at the ballot box.
The libtard way - If it ain’t broke, fix it ‘til it is.
I seem to recall that Congress forbade the FCC from regulating the Internet. The FCC charter gives them control over “public” airwaves like radio on TV broadcasts, but not paid media like ISP or cable TV. Who the heck is letting them get away with this? This is just another ploy by Obama to have total government control of all media.
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My copy of Art 1 Sec 8 does not allow the FedGov to have an FCC...
Beginning to sound like a broken record, aren’t I...
Allowing a provider to charge more for enhanced services will be good for everyone and will drive additional services and features.
It will also be the final blow to traditional Cable TV and allow everyone to pick their channels ala carte.
Net Neutrality is an unnatural hindrance on innovation and competition.
That's not at all accurate.
Text-based internet flows are incidental, at best.
Composing less than 5% of all traffic...it is carried without so much as notice by any backbone provider.
Besides, IF a site were to be genuinely "blocked" by any ISP or backbone provider, they would start losing customers right quick.
This fight is about whether backbone providers and ISPs will be allowed to CHARGE content providers for additional, enhanced services...not whether there will be blockage anywhere of anything on the internet.
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I’m curious why this can’t be addressed by the free market.
ISPs who give equal treatment to all sites can advertise it, and those consumers who want this can switch to them. Customers who don’t care or who like the idea of a fast lane for some sites can use ISPs with those policies.
To make this work, there might need to be a law that ISPs post their policies in this regard.
It’s also interesting that the present system is the result of the government prohibiting content providers and ISPs from contracting freely with each other.
IOW, the proposed change would reduce government interference, not increase it.
Odd that so many conservatives want to continue this government regulation of a very important industry.