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Net Neutrality At Risk Once Again
November 4, 2013 at 5:37 pm
“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
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RE: Net Neutrality At Risk Once Again
November 4, 2013 at 6:16 pm
Everyone one the internet needs someone else's permission in some shape or form.
There's always rulez.
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RE: Net Neutrality At Risk Once Again
November 4, 2013 at 6:18 pm
But this is saying that your IP will be able to determine which sites you browse with ease, vs. the sites you'll visit and wait 10 minutes to load.... EVERY TIME.... which means many will eventually give up.
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RE: Net Neutrality At Risk Once Again
November 4, 2013 at 6:53 pm
And in a heavily religious area, it might be hard to get to sites like atheistforums.org, if able to at all. And as soon as political parties get involved with the internet providers, they'll be determining which political sites get priority.
I'm just glad we're not using the same IP we were before, because the guy who ran that is an ultraconservative Christian who I have no doubt would censor the internet if he could.
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RE: Net Neutrality At Risk Once Again
November 4, 2013 at 6:59 pm
... Anyone know Cox's religious and or political standpoint?
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RE: Net Neutrality At Risk Once Again
November 5, 2013 at 3:14 pm
(November 4, 2013 at 9:12 pm)Walking Void Wrote: I am afraid all He would have to do is make a simple calculation to turn atheistforums.org into an IP address and find out where its server is and everything, including its traffic across various DNS servers.
Or just simply block access.
What if the guy who owns your IP is an ultraconservative Christian fundie who blocks access to all atheist sites, all non-Christian religious sites, all Christian sites he disagrees with, all porn sites, all non-Republican political sites, and anything else he disagrees with? His customers would probably bail on him in a big city where there's many different IP's to choose from, but here in small town America where the local IP pretty much has a monopoly, it's not so easy to find other access. And then if you can find other IP's, what if they block everything they disagree with?
To me, not having net neutrality is just the same as conducting book burnings at your local library. People should have access to all information, not just that which certain people agree with.
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