Net Neutrality, or How the Telecom Companies Killed the Internet

[ShawnWatson]

I have never understood the title of this thread. Those companies have already killed the internet?

I didn't know the internet was dead.

If they get there way it would destroy the internet the way you and I know it today, and the chances of it happening are scarcely realistic. The f'ing chairman of the FCC is the former leading lobbyist for broadcast companies, thanks Obama.

[tschu]

I have never understood the title of this thread. Those companies have already killed the internet?

 

I didn't know the internet was dead.

 

"will kill the internet" is more appropriate, but it's legitimate. if they get their way, the internet as we know it will be effectively dead. bye-bye to the internet as a utility, a public domain where all information is treated equally, and hello to an internet where massive corporations control all of the traffic, speeds, and use. not good.

[VectorVictor]

I have never understood the title of this thread. Those companies have already killed the internet?

 

I didn't know the internet was dead.

 

Sorry--at the time, the Orwellian-titled "Net Neutrality" provisions the FCC was going to pass to allow AT&T, Verizon, et al the ability to install pay fast lanes was looking like it was a done deal.

 

Now, if they ignore those 1.4 million pieces of feedback (I think Gizmodo said over 99% of them were against paid lanes and supported true Net Neutrality), then we know something is rotten and organizations like the EFF will know to start sniffing.

[tschu]

Kinda quietly, Obama is doing exactly what I want done which is pushing for internet access to be classified as a utility - thus subject to the same sort of regulations as water and electricity and the like. Meaning, no paid-for fast lanes that prevent entrepreneurship, idiotic pricing, and in general instillation of what we call net neutrality.

 

I suspect this is going to get nowhere because Republican Senate and ISP Lobbying and all that but you know what... I have

 

[tschu]

Never mind, we're completely f'd.

 

 

[Junior]

As soon as I saw the Cruz Tweet, I wanted to punch something. What a stupid, arrogant, polarizing, piece of human excrement.

[Husker_x]

I'm not sure Ted Cruz is even an idiot. I'm fairly convinced he's a sociopath.

[VectorVictor]

As soon as I saw the Cruz Tweet, I wanted to punch something. What a stupid, arrogant, polarizing, piece of human excrement.

 

Yeah, that pretty much sums up the Tea Party as a whole.

[Junior]

I'm not sure Ted Cruz is even an idiot. I'm fairly convinced he's a sociopath.

 

This is probably true.

[VectorVictor]

I'm still shocked that we haven't had anyone come in and defend the antics of Cruz, et al, on this issue. Because if you go out in public, there are people that are regurgitating their talking points on this subject as gospel.

[carlfense]

I'm not sure Ted Cruz is even an idiot.

Oh, I definitely don't think that he is an idiot. Far from it, actually . . . but he sure does think that his supporters are idiots.

[Junior]

 

I'm not sure Ted Cruz is even an idiot.

Oh, I definitely don't think that he is an idiot. Far from it, actually . . . but he sure does think that his supporters are idiots.

 

 

Are they not?

[carlfense]

 

 

I'm not sure Ted Cruz is even an idiot.

Oh, I definitely don't think that he is an idiot. Far from it, actually . . . but he sure does think that his supporters are idiots.

 

Are they not?

 

No comment.

[tschu]

I'll comment. They're idiots.

 

I'm not calling Republicans idiots, because I'm pretty sure there's a sizeable distinction between "right-wing Tea Partier" and "Republican"