Posted on 03/02/2015 12:42:41 PM PST by Kaslin
Why the dig at Netflix, I wonder- I don’t see much perversion on there.
In fact I am about to cancel it because there is rarely anything new I want to watch.
Already finished third season of House of Cards (U.S. version)?
I can see net neutrality doing real damage to online gaming which has plenty of gamers all across the political spectrum.
Typical liberals. Always slow to catch up with reality. They were warned.
Watching them cheer lead for net neutrality reminds me of when they were cheer leading for obamacare.
Fact.
As determined by Snopes, Politifact, and what. Media Matters?
No dictator can co-exist with freedom of speech.
Try as it can, the FCC’s jurisdiction would only apply to networks and servers and sites hosted within US borders, right? A site hosted in, say, Panama or Japan or India could still thumb its nose at them.
Considering foreign hosting alternatives for FR yet?
I have absolutely no use for Netflix. I have tried to sign up several times but could not find movies that interested me and when I finally found one, they didn’t have it in stock. So I gave up
The only thing worth watching on Netflix is Breaking Bad, and fargo (movie). Even the kids shows suck!
Fully expect accelerated efforts to pass a UN International “Internet Protection” treaty any time now, all in the name of:
1. thwarting terrorism / inciting violence, such as ISIS recruitment, via hate / radical / misinformation site information monitoring and filtering to label and restrict access, to “protect” us.
2. ensure privacy of world citizens to “protect” against improper use of Personal Information data - authorities will need to monitor PII / PHI data to ensure compliance.
3. protect vital infrastructure, such as banking, health, food, energy, government essential services - authorities will overtly need to monitor IP addresses.
Note, the USA ICANN ceded control of the internet
http://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2014/03/15/us-government-cedes-control-of-the-internet/
FCC gets control of the US internet last week.
Now Google is going to work with Microsoft and left orientated “Fact-checking” sites to “protect” US subjects from mis/dis-information.
Things are moving fast to usher in a Global Tyrannical Dem-Socialist reign.
Control information dissemination
Crash the dollar / EU
Reconstitute governments and economies to usher in a “A New World Order” (power & social structure), just as Bush I literally stated, 25 years ago...
Netfick was the big pusher of this.. they want the streaming video qos without paying for that top tier with out paying for it...it like wanting a private jet at your beck and call but at budget airlines standby rates...
There the 10 ton King Kong at the all you can eat bandwidth buffet eating with the regular people.. you’re just going to get what’s left for scraps
Information will always find a way if it wants to.
Even with all that, it’s still whack-a-mole.
On CNBC they went around asking people what net neutrality was. Very few even knew it had something to do with the internet. One guy knew. He said that the Democrats wanted to make the internet fair, but the Republicans were bowing to the big internet companies and didn’t want the little guys to have access to the internet by making it cost too much.
“Try as it can, the FCC’s jurisdiction would only apply to networks and servers and sites hosted within US borders, right?”
Wrong, because the foreign servers can be monitored for content and their IP addresses can then be filtered out at the intermediate domestic routers responsible for forwarding the IP packets. The end result would be monitoring and censoring of foreign located servers who are then unable to deliver IP packets to domestic American clients.
Then they would be no better than China, and in effect, squander their moral credibility. Whatever ways that system can be gotten around, I’m all for them.
Doesn't Google already censor search results for China and other oppressive nations?
Why do you think it will affect gaming?
Gaming takes major bandwidth and the feds are going to drive the costs out of reach for many.
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