Net Neutrality

[ATTech]

Just click "Tell the FCC: Protect Net Neutrality Now »" to send a letter to the FCC. That way we can express our feeling about this.

Seems a bit pointless, as it's not a matter of convincing the FCC, but rather, giving the FCC enough power.

 

[sjlplat]

The FCC doesn't need to be convinced. The US court system does.

 

[thecoldone06]

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

Likewise I used to keep up with all this net neutrality stuff. The future of all communication is going to be the internet. (obviously) ISPs have been trying gain full control of the Internet for some time. I have even watched older videos where BIG ISPs have crushed small (but better fiber optic providers) ISP's into dust to prevent competition. Also they have crushed experiments in small towns were small towns had free or cheap fiber optic and they sued saying government is competing with business and it is illegal. (I believe it was a small town in Texas correct me if I'm wrong. )

Right now these giants claim they need to throttle, monitor, redirect etc. for this and that reason. But in the end its just control and corporate imperialism. VOIP? and QOS LOL! Do you know how fast an OC12 or OC48 network is. Don't be fooled. Bandwidth has infinite potential the only reason we are behind is way back in the day when fiber optic was available Telcos and cable coms wanted to stick with copper it was cheaper then creating a new infrastruture that could potentially bring new competition. They bought off the fibre optic pushers. Now 20+ year later the internet is a huge backbone of society and alot of our Internet infrastructure are still copper. YAY! Thanks.

The giants will use just about any excuse to justify some form of control and price including lack of IP addresses, lack of Bandwidth, filtering dangerous IPs, Dangerous sites etc. Its all starts with an artificial need then the lawmakers and the people will bend over backwards. (Do WMD's come to mind)

Our government is poisoned from our elected officials to the Supreme Court. Likewise Americans are brainwashed. Don't swallow the belief that "torrents" or "bandwidth" is the reason for control. If I pay for a 15Mbps connection that's what I should get and if some website can shoot me data at that speed that's what I should get in return. No middle man should be setting there tweaking our connections. (Hypothetically Speaking) Now because they paid Comcast 1 million a year so they can be faster then all the competing smaller site. Imagine tomorrow if Comcast was paid to slow down Technibble to their customers by GeekSquad. I know that sounds far fetched for us in 2010 but its a future possibility 10 years from now. As the USA becomes the United Corporations of America.

Imagine if Google was throttled back so bad it was unbearably slow. You were forced to use Bing or Yahoo. Could they have become so big that they can actually compete? Google knows whats up.... http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/10/google-fiber-optic-network-home/

I agree with you. Until today, I had only read that MSNBC article on the subject. Which apparently did a horrible job in describing the situation. The wired article did a much better job. Something must be done, just not quite sure what we can do but sit and wait. riot, maybe?

 

[hondablaster]

If you give Corporations or Government an inch they will take a mile. The question is who should you give the inch to?.....

 

[A+ Computer S&R]

Seems a bit pointless, as it's not a matter of convincing the FCC, but rather, giving the FCC enough power.

Everyone's voice matters. The more we speak out about this, the more people will realize how important this is. If enough people write to the FCC then they will have no choice but to put power back into the FCC's hands.

 

[ATTech]

If enough people write to the FCC then they will have no choice but to put power back into the FCC's hands.

Wait what?!

How about not wasting your time and rather than preaching to the choir, contact your local representative, you know the ones who have the authority to give them the power?

 

[A+ Computer S&R]

Wait what?!

How about not wasting your time and rather than preaching to the choir, contact your local representative, you know the ones who have the authority to give them the power?

Did that, I got a pretty little letter back saying that they thank me for my advice and that they will keep it in mind. But the FCC DOES have the authority to change broadband to a "telecommunication service". You might wanna read up on it a little so you know what going on. Not trying to be rude, so please don't take it that way.