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Portuguese ISP Shows What The Net Looks Like Without Net Neutrality (boingboing.net)
"In Portugal, with no net neutrality, internet providers are starting to split the net into packages," argues a California congressman -- retweeting a stunning graphic. An anonymous reader quotes BoingBoing's Cory Doctorow:
Since 2006, Net Neutrality activists have been warning that a non-Neutral internet will be an invitation to ISPs to create "plans" where you have to choose which established services you can access, shutting out new entrants to the market and allowing the companies with the deepest pockets to permanently dominate the internet... the Portuguese non-neutral ISP MEO has mistaken a warning for a suggestion, and offers a series of "plans" for its mobile data service where you pay €5 to access a handful of messaging services, €5 more to use social media; and €5 more for video-streaming services.
The congressman notes this arrangement offers "a huge advantage for entrenched companies, but it totally ices out startups trying to get in front of people, which stifles innovation."
The congressman notes this arrangement offers "a huge advantage for entrenched companies, but it totally ices out startups trying to get in front of people, which stifles innovation."
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with access to the internet you have access to job training and job recruiters.
with that access you have the ability to get ahead
in short, if you have a cell phone, there is no good excuse for not getting ahead in life with a little hard work and perseverance
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You example is absurd. There is no where in the world where a "luxury apartment" rents for $2, and no where that $4500 will get you only a "hole in the wall".
You implication that someone making $60k in America is worse off than impoverished Africans making 30 cents a day is idiotic.
Taking a deliberately simple analogy literally is what is absurd.
Well then, I apologize for thinking you meant what you said.
My implication is that someone making 60K in SF may be worse off than someone making 15K in a developing nation.
If you think "$10 per month" comes out to $15k annually, then you need a new calculator. Your "implication" was off by a factor of more than a hundred.
That $10/month number was an exaggeration to make a point
$10 per month puts a household in the bottom 1% level of global income. $15k means a household earns more than 85% of the world.
Yes, $60k in SF might make you only better off than 85% of the world. But saying it puts you in the bottom 1% is completely idiotic.