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Just my two cents but I'm totally against net neutrality. I dont want the government in my internet. Ever heard of China? Or Google? I signed the petition against net nuetrality.
 
Just signed it. Not sure if I'm to late but I just saw this petition. Hope I helped
 
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Cracked .com just did a sweet article on this very subject--among other things. Plus, I laugh my ass off reading them...

Cracked online rocks...
and because i have less than 50 posts I cannot post the link...
5 Reasons The Internet Could Die At Any Moment




It makes my eyes rain....
 
Another way the government is trying to "censor the public" per se... this happened in Texas with level and pre AP textbooks.... It was voted to in my words "censor the textbook" to a more liberal standing and only focus on the views of the Caucasian culture and non others ex. Africans views or any other non Caucasian culture an example for the liberal thing is that they are pretty much deleting people from history for ex. Thomas Jefferson and pretty much saying close to nothing except that he was one of the main authors.... this has already happened in a way because most of you think George Washington was the 1st president which he wasn't Samuel Huntington was the first under the articles of confederation which it failed and Washington was first under the constitution....

When writing this I thought it pertained to this in a way but I just ended up rambling but just gonna say F**k the government

and after doing some more research I think I'll sign :)
 
DAdams91982 said:
Agreed, it is not going to happen. People are already dropping like flies from ComCast because of their torrent throttling. The free market will inevitably drive the requirement for cheap unfettered bandwidth.
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This is what I believe. It will be easy for some one like me even(after about 12-14 months developing a proper business model and plan and getting backers) to open a small time provider and undercut the others and provide free roam. How rapidly would you grow in that situation when all your competition is restrictive and suppressive? :drive:

Still I could see the federal government stepping in and pulling bullcrap...
 
lyfespan said:
just signed it too, **** big business, i ****ing hate their bull**** tactics to control all
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Okay, last comment then unsub.

This is probably the most ironic post in this thread. You hate business for trying to control, but yet then sign a petition that requests the biggest business of all to control the free internet. Think about that.
 
enever we hear that the FCC is to launch a case against someone, we always presume that they will win – but not so with the recent Net Neutrality ssue with Comcast. The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the Federa Communications Commission failed in its bid to implement its legal authority against Comcast in 2008 The ruling said that the FCC did not have the authority to regulate ISPs; this now throws into doubt if the FCC has any weight with the national broadband plan? This ruling has dealt a huge blow to the net neutrality rules; this is where companies such as Comcast have to treat all Internet traffic as equal Mercury News explains that without rules and guidelines, then Internet service providers will begin to favor certain users on their networks – this could result in users speed or data limits being reduced. There is even a possibility that high download users could be charged extra. You can certainly see the pros and cons of this argument; do you think that these ISPs should favor those who do not download much? Leave a comment on the above story, follow us on Twitter, get daily updates via email, or join our news feed. Read more stories by Peter Chubb BlackB

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permanabol said:
Another way the government is trying to "censor the public" per se... this happened in Texas with level and pre AP textbooks.... It was voted to in my words "censor the textbook" to a more liberal standing and only focus on the views of the Caucasian culture and non others ex. Africans views or any other non Caucasian culture an example for the liberal thing is that they are pretty much deleting people from history for ex. Thomas Jefferson and pretty much saying close to nothing except that he was one of the main authors.... this has already happened in a way because most of you think George Washington was the 1st president which he wasn't Samuel Huntington was the first under the articles of confederation which it failed and Washington was first under the constitution....

When writing this I thought it pertained to this in a way but I just ended up rambling but just gonna say F**k the government

and after doing some more research I think I'll sign :)
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I understand your reasoning but when asked the question MOST people are asking about "under constitution" not articles of confederation. At least, that is what the question is pertaining to 99% of the time. There are, however, some books which talk about the articles of confederation; though, I have not read them nor studied from them.
 
Zero V said:
This is what I believe. It will be easy for some one like me even(after about 12-14 months developing a proper business model and plan and getting backers) to open a small time provider and undercut the others and provide free roam. How rapidly would you grow in that situation when all your competition is restrictive and suppressive? :drive:

Still I could see the federal government stepping in and pulling bullcrap...
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I have similar beliefs. Anytime you have a human being involved, someone is going to make money from any and every aspect.

Every time something is outlawed or the price of some service goes up tremendously, some substitute pops up, or some entity grows by providing cheaper and more qualitative services (though, sometimes shiatty as well)

If they outlawed barber shops, someone would design a home system that works as well as going to the barber shop, kill it, make millions.
 
WarMachine000 said:
enever we hear that the FCC is to launch a case against someone, we always presume that they will win – but not so with the recent Net Neutrality ssue with Comcast. The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the Federa Communications Commission failed in its bid to implement its legal authority against Comcast in 2008 The ruling said that the FCC did not have the authority to regulate ISPs; this now throws into doubt if the FCC has any weight with the national broadband plan? This ruling has dealt a huge blow to the net neutrality rules; this is where companies such as Comcast have to treat all Internet traffic as equal Mercury News explains that without rules and guidelines, then Internet service providers will begin to favor certain users on their networks – this could result in users speed or data limits being reduced. There is even a possibility that high download users could be charged extra. You can certainly see the pros and cons of this argument; do you think that these ISPs should favor those who do not download much? Leave a comment on the above story, follow us on Twitter, get daily updates via email, or join our news feed. Read more stories by Peter Chubb BlackB

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Near the end you wrote an interesting comment. That part about "limits reduced". Have you ever had a hughes satellite system? In my opinion, biggest ripoff to date. However, in the early 90s, it was all that I could get in the rural areas. So, that part is nothing new. When you d/l over so many gb per month, you would get throttled, negative throttle. Your transmission speeds were cut. I think for like a week it was. So, the overall data limit didn't get affected as far as the amount, but the speed was cut down 60%. I think I was paying like 80 bucks a month for that crap before cable came along.
 
hardknock said:
Near the end you wrote an interesting comment. That part about "limits reduced". Have you ever had a hughes satellite system? In my opinion, biggest ripoff to date. However, in the early 90s, it was all that I could get in the rural areas. So, that part is nothing new. When you d/l over so many gb per month, you would get throttled, negative throttle. Your transmission speeds were cut. I think for like a week it was. So, the overall data limit didn't get affected as far as the amount, but the speed was cut down 60%. I think I was paying like 80 bucks a month for that crap before cable came along.
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I didn't write anything. All from link
 
Yep just read up on it. I dont want the government in the internet business. Not after they got into the the healthcare business. Google was having problems with China telling them what could and could not be on the internet. I dont want to have that problem. If my ISP tries to control my internet I'll just change providers. If my government does that, I'm screwed.
 
wastedwhiteboy2 said:
Yep just read up on it. I dont want the government in the internet business. Not after they got into the the healthcare business. Google was having problems with China telling them what could and could not be on the internet. I dont want to have that problem. If my ISP tries to control my internet I'll just change providers. If my government does that, I'm screwed.
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Dont worry about that. The Gov won't win the case anyway. It is all for just an old "we gave it the old college try" to help please the public.
 
I'm at a lost to how some people are saying they can just "switch" providers? Where most of you guys live, there are multiple providers offering wired services?

Where I live, there is only one service and 17 miles south of me, there are two services. So, total, there are 3 main services unless you have a satellite broadband which is horrendous.
 
hardknock said:
I'm at a lost to how some people are saying they can just "switch" providers? Where most of you guys live, there are multiple providers offering wired services?

Where I live, there is only one service and 17 miles south of me, there are two services. So, total, there are 3 main services unless you have a satellite broadband which is horrendous.
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Man, I can think of about 5 off the top of my head right now around here. I use UVerse and love it.
 
Sooo... it's been a few months. Are you all being charged premium rates to access facebook now? Just curious since there was only 1.5 days to act. I am not, but want to hear from you all.
 
I think people over react to such things. From what I recall, the gov blocked the ISPs of discriminating based on content. In any case, even if it passed, all it means is that you will get slightly slower download of large videos for example versus normal websites. It hardly affect 95% of the internet population. No cost consequences either.

Alternatives are being looked into through. For example, AT&T got rid of their $30 unlimited data plan and substrituted it with $25 plan with limited bandwidth (still big enough for the majority of the users). This in part is due to the high popularity of iphones and ipads and the ability of their infrastructure to provide adequate service for the overall public.

Personally, I don't really care if they limit it on those who download terrabytes of data every month. However, like previously stated, other companies will step in and increase the heat and lower prices in any case.

15 years ago, out of town calls cost $0.25/min. Today, international calls can be as little as $0.03/min and out of town calls are free. Same thing with the Internet, in the next 5 to 10 years, we will be operating purely online and the cost will be a flat fee for unlimited usage and subscription based on what apps you want to use.

Something to look into too is the "cloud computing" push in the computer industry. It is the next big thing that is coming over the next 5 to 10 years. Basically, your computer will become more of a browser and majority of the things you will use will be subscription based accessed remotely on big corp servers in what is known as clouds.

Clouds are already in use by the larger companies (Amazon, Facebook, eBay, Google, Microsoft to name few), but Google and Microsoft are competing to move everything to the clouds and away from the PC (Google more so than Microsoft. Microsoft is concentrating on the Business side while Google on the consumer side).

So all in all, everything is just noise and prices will only go down unless you are getting bigger bang for the dollar.
 
Same price. But I did see obama is trying again to control the internet. I have 3 different providers in my area. And if they all piss me off. I'll tether my blackberry for internet. Did it already for a week before I got my wireless adapter and was happy with the speed.
 
This is a stupid post. I am a conservative and this is like some of the BS conservative emails I get everyday. I listen to NPR all freakin day at work. If this was true, they would definitely be reporting about it.
 
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