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John Oliver Gets Fired Up Over Net Neutrality, Causes FCC's Site To Temporarily Crash (fortune.com)
Three years ago, late night comedian John Oliver propelled an arcane telecom topic into the national debate by spurring millions of ordinary Americans to file comments with the Federal Communications Commission in favor of "net neutrality." Among other things, that effort caused the FCC website to crash, which couldn't handle the "overwhelming" traffic. Now Oliver is back at it, and he is already causing the site some troubles. From a report on Fortune: On Sunday night, Oliver devoted a chunk of his Last Week Tonight show to condemning a plan by the FCC's new Chairman, Ajit Pai, to tear up current net neutrality rules, which forbid Internet providers from delivering some websites faster than others. In the clip, Oliver urges viewers to visit a website called "GoFCCYourself," which redirects users to a section of the FCC site where people can comment on the net neutrality proceeding, known as "Restoring Internet Freedom" in Pai's parlance. Viewers took up Oliver's offer in spades -- so much so that the FCC's servers appeared to be overwhelmed by the flood of traffic. The comment page is currently loading with delays and, according to reports from several outlets, the site went down altogether for a while. On Monday, Ashley Boyd, VP of Advocacy for Mozilla, also published a blog post to remind people that the next 10 days are critical for the internet's future. Much like Oliver, Mozilla is also making it easier for people to voice their opinion. The post adds: Add your name to our letter, and we'll deliver your message straight to the FCC. You can also record an impassioned voicemail using Mozilla's call tool. So far, Internet users have recorded more than 50 hours of audio for the FCC's ears.
Immagrant! I hate them as well. That's why my text editor underlines the word!
This is what you get when you DICTATE legislation and policy through regulatory bodies like this -If you politicize the bodies to get your way don't be surprised when another side gets in and changes the rules to the politics they want.
I suppose some would say it's been that way for a long time.
....will use the outages as an example for why preferential channels are needed. >_>
Liberty - Security - Laziness - Pick any two.
I really missed this. It's so difficult to find a decent BADLY DEPLOYED site these days...
Yay!
You now have to go to https://www.fcc.gov/restoring-... instead.
Liberty - Security - Laziness - Pick any two.
Nothing, I suppose, compared to the Slashdotting to come ...
Once the bill passes they can pay internet providers to throttle traffic to the site to prevent future crashes.
It is useless to crash the FCC site... The judges have refused to hear further arguments. Now all that will help is to crash the congressional email servers.
John Oliver Gets Fired Over Net Neutrality ...
One word makes all the difference!
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You can watch the segment on youtube here.
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I agree wholeheartedly. If we start putting reality TV stars in positions of power, our country is truly screwed.
Support Right To Repair Legislation.
I'm not sure you understand how the Internet works. I'll explain it to you, in case you want to learn. I'm an optimist.
Caches are a symbiotic relationship between the content provider and the ISP. By streaming high-demand content more locally the load on the ISPs Internet Drains and Peering Links is dramatically reduced. Drains are typical billed per byte, so having 10s of thousands of customers each streaming the latest GoT episode can get expensive. Peering is not billed, but it still requires a serious investment in transport from the ISPs residential users back to the nearest IXP like 350 Cermak in Chicago or 56 Marietta in Dallas. Caching moves that high demand content out to the local offices so the episode only has to be downloaded once across the transport. Google does it, Netflix does it, and any ISP that isn't trying to push their own video offering embraces these caches because it reduces the load on their network without them having to invest in more transport. Anyone can do this, even the little guy by going through a 3rd party such as Akamai which sells this functionality as a service. The content isn't prioritized across the actual access network. It's not given higher CoS or dedicated infrastructure. It's just moved closer to save money and improve customer experience.
Youtube doesn't own dark fiber. Google does own dark fiber, although it's not dark because they're actually using it. This is because Google's volume of traffic is so high that it's cost effective for them to build their own transport network. This doesn't link to every ISP in the planet, it only links to major IXPs and NAPs. ISPs also come to these locations to peer and buy transit.
I can also put content up on Youtube. I'm not sure what you think this has to do with anything.
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It's lovely that people are making their voices heard (literally), but in the end it's too little too late. The people with money want more of it, and you gave up what shreds of rights when you voted a Cheeto into office.
And how is this different from hosting your content on a CDN? You know - a widely and competitively available service from multiple providers. NOT serving every bit of information from a single place, often halfway across the globe is IMO how the internet should work.
Satire has for quite some time been a useful tool to highlight institutional problems and call people to action.
56 Marietta is in Atlanta. 1950 Stemmons is in Dallas. On my first pot of coffee.
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If Trump doesn't want a select few organizations to have control over the message that gets out to people, and in doing so have huge political sway, perhaps he should consider whether a law guaranteeing that all messages have equal priority over an internet connection...
Lack of net neutrality is exactly what gets you Comcast, Verizon and AT&T carefully controlling what news people see.
See, if only ISPs could implement proper quality of service, the site wouldn't have gone down.
Next up on Slashdot: Kim Kardashian offers her wisdom on cyber security. If Hollywood douchebags are on your side, maybe you should reconsider your positions.
Yes, all actors are vapid simpletons, incapable of cogent thought:
For example: Dolph Lundgren:
Lundgren received a degree in chemical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in the early 1980s and a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney in 1982.
Lundgren was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Politicians in charge do not want an open and free internet.
Entering 17-108 or Proceeding 17-108 on the form does nothing, it gets blanked out when I try to get to the review page. Is there a secret? It was certainly a pain to figure out how to get to that form.
The link above provides you with another link to here where you should be able to click "+ Express" but the link doesn't seem to work.
To leave a comment you need to go here, put 17-108 in the first field and then fill out the rest.
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Here's my favorite Trump quote (a tweet), issued in response to the Women's March on Washington: "[I] was under the impression that we just had an election! Why didn't these people vote?"
That applies here too. If the Internet were so important, than surely people would have voted against Republicans in November, so that Congress could move on treating Internet access as a utility. They didn't. If anything, people voted to make the Internet more expensive and limited. So why pester the FCC about this? You are telling the FCC to work directly against what the voters said they want.
There will be another election at the end of 2018. You can always re-classify Internet access then, if you've so radically changed your mind since 2016.
Maybe another way to look at this is: ELECTIONS ARE IMPORTANT, YOU FUCKWITS. Every other November, all you (yes, even you people here on Slashdot) treat the election a complete joke that will have no relevance in your life. This is the kind of government you get, when you don't take it seriously. SUCK IT.
Don't like the consequences? Then start fucking taking the fucking elections fucking seriously. Don't ever, ever let Republicans win anything again. (And if you're smart, you'll run the Democrats out of the country too, but you need to get their replacements lined up first.)
Google does it, Netflix does it, and any ISP that isn't trying to push their own video offering embraces these caches because it reduces the load on their network without them having to invest in more transport.
And this is where the problem lies. Netflix offered to host their "cache" called a Content Delivery Network (CDN) on Comcast's network which would benefit both companies as far as bandwidth was concerned. Comcast refused to let them unless they paid Comcast to put their equipment on Comcast's network. Comcast was also throttling Netflix traffic on their network. Why? Comcast On Demand. Once Netflix paid the ransom traffic suddenly normalized. An ISP should not be allowed to also offer content or internet service should be regulated. This doesn't fall under free market because Comcast is using government granted right of ways for its cabling that smaller ISPs do not have.
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It's already a problem.
Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooosh.
You'd have to be crazy to trust one of those guys.
Jesus saves and takes half damage.
Perhaps IP providers restricted the traffic to FCC site that made it crash...no? :-)
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This doesn't fall under free market because Comcast is using government granted right of ways for its cabling that smaller ISPs do not have.
And this is why I don't support net neutrality. It's fixing the wrong problem.
Does he disturb your precious universe with a harsh dose of reality that much?
Try the 'File a Public Comment' link, bottom right.
That is like thinking we should not put stop signs or traffic lights at new intersections. We should just wait and see if anyone crashes into anyone first. We don't do that because it is obviously dangerous based on observed conditions. Just like we already know that if internet traffic shaping is abused people, will get screwed.
That's like saying you're not in favor of seat belts because we need more guardrails.
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On top of that, Cum Cardassian is totally *not* an actor.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Which party was it that elected an actor and reality show star as president, and another actor as governor?
Just because someone uses humor as a vehicle does not mean they are Bozo the Clown.
The GP probably likes serial killers, so that's not going to sway him. Tell him that Leftists also breathe oxygen. Now we're getting somewhere.
Fuck John Oliver.
You only wish you could.
Whoosh
And moderators that don't understand sarcasm, mod posts troll - frelling /. (sigh)
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
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