Net Neutrality 2014

[Jackalope]

I don't really understand the net neutrality scare. I mean the ideas that he's presented just don't jive with reality. It's borderline conspiracy theory. If internet providers were really going to do that, they would of by now. The market has done great with the internet, which is the ultimate source of free speech. I'd much rather keep it as is rather than give the government any control.

They haven't done it because they haven't been allowed to. However, they're already starting to do it, the most well-known case being with Netflix.

There's that, as well as the case where Comcast was caught interfering with Bittorrent traffic.

[Isun]

I think the graph that John showed where the download speed for Netflix decreased during the negotiation....and then suddenly went up after they came to an agreement......... doh.


I will say that John's rant sure got people involved including me!!!!


FCC website crashes following John Oliver's rant

http://theweek.com/speedreads/index/2625...z33c9X2Mhs

[Minimalist]

The FCC said its website "experienced technical difficulties" with its comment system on Monday.

Er, yes. All the comments were negative and they didn't want to hear that!

[Dragonetti]

They want to double dip on the bandwidth, which was paid for by the user already.

I am not sure why USA's internet has stagnated in terms of price and speed.

The service providers suck!

[Minimalist]

I am not sure why USA's internet has stagnated in terms of price and speed.

I'm sure greedy corporate cocksuckers enters into it somewhere.

[Jackalope]

I am not sure why USA's internet has stagnated in terms of price and speed.

The service providers suck!

The former has a lot to do with the latter.

[Ryantology]

The market has done great with the internet, which is the ultimate source of free speech. I'd much rather keep it as is rather than give the government any control.

Looks to me as if the market, in this country at least, has done great primarily in fucking broadband customers without any courtesy lube. Not so much on giving us the world-class internet speeds we're obviously paying for.

It's not even a free market in terms of telecoms. It's a small handful of huge corporations colluding to produce what you see above: huge profits and low-quality service. A bare fact of the 'free market' is that corporations will grow as monopolistic as government allows them to, and that having been done, they will provide the poorest service for the highest price they can get away with. It's happening right here. I don't really see what we gain by giving them even more opportunity to do the latter.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

I'm more surprised that the UK's average broadband connection speed is 60mbps!

I don't think I've ever seen that. They must be sampling from London and nowhere else.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

What is this 'internet' of which you speak?

Boru

[StuW]

I'm more surprised that the UK's average broadband connection speed is 60mbps!

I don't think I've ever seen that. They must be sampling from London and nowhere else.

I'm surprised it's not higher! Most towns i know of have at least 100mbps, I myself have 152mbps