Will the loss of net neutrality hurt us little guys?

They fucked up by allowing free speach, but fixed it with peoples obsession over cat pictures and celebrities. But free markets are an incubator of free people so, If you've been participating in the first free market americans have seen since 1913, id be a lil worried.

Free markets means free people. If you're not slaving 15-45% of your work day in the form of income tax, you've escaped the plantation and ya'll niggers aint going nowhere.

Now go and take on the day

amen.

From the new testament bible:
Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2 Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended. 4 For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience.

6 This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. 7 Give to everyone wht you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
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dreamache said:
They, certainly, did.
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John Oliver video on the net neutrality

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU]Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO): Net Neutrality - YouTube[/ame]
 
Awesome video shares...ya'll are a wealth of edutainment! yeah...been seeing it coming for a while. No one seems to be aware of how much this would change everything we do. The FCC has been deregulating in favor of corporate interests, completely ignoring the public needs or interest for far too long. It happened with Cable TV, offering more and more ESPN's and HBO's in lieu of early programming, like MTV when it was a music channel. I like Luke's forward-vision of how we might be able to hang on to a network with autonomy and most-importantly, open.
 
There seems to be two separate issues here which these laws need to address & differentiate:

If a heavy content provider like netflix or hulu, wants to pay to have servers/data on the ISP's local network to serve customer's data quicker, so be it. That may even help decongest all other internet traffic.

Now that's one thing.

But at the same time, these ISPs should be prohibited from selectively slowing anyone else (who doesn't pay the local network fee) down.

That's a whole 'nother issue that should be prohibited. Nobody's really going to have to pay except heavy content providers like netflix or hulu, which in the end may even be a good thing for everyone else. It's the "having the legal right to selectively slow anyone else down" that's the problem.

These two very different issues/scenarios, need to be separated in law and individually addressed and regulated accordingly.

Just my 2 cents.
 
^^ Now if they're worried about rich providers using this to have an unfair advantage over poor ones... Make the "Priority Purchasers" have to put their bandwidth where their mouth is; Only sites that stream over X,XXX,XXX(however much netflix streamed a year ago) terrabytes a month qualify to purchase such special access. Boom; fairness is somewhat back... since it's the audience, not the budget, who permits/decides what/who's prioritized.
 
these inches are how we lost the mile

MadMaxNine said:
^^ Now if they're worried about rich providers using this to have an unfair advantage over poor ones... Make the "Priority Purchasers" have to put their bandwidth where their mouth is; Only sites that stream over X,XXX,XXX(however much netflix streamed a year ago) terrabytes a month qualify to purchase such special access. Boom; fairness is somewhat back... since it's the audience, not the budget, who permits/decides what/who's prioritized.
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