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Net Neutrality Advocates Plan Protests For December 7 at Verizon Stores (techcrunch.com)
Jordan Crook, writing for TechCrunch: During yesterday's announcement of the upcoming vote, the FCC neglected to mention the historic 22 million comments on the issue, the majority of which were opposed to its rollback. In response, protests are being held on December 7 at Verizon retail stores across the country. The protests were organized by Demand Progress, Fight For The Future, and FreePress Action Fund. Here's what the protest organizers have to say on their event page: "Ajit Pai is clearly still working for Verizon, not the public. But he still has to answer to Congress. So we're calling on our lawmakers to do their job overseeing the FCC and speak out against Ajit Pai's plan to gut Title II net neutrality protections and give Verizon and other giant ISPs everything on their holiday wishlist.
You paid for 100Mbps internet. But your ISP decides they don't like Hulu or Netflix. So they now charge you an extra $10 per month for both services. Want Spotify? That's another $5. Oh, people hate this? Ok. We won't charge you. We'll just limit your speeds to these services to 100kbps until each of them pay us for the privilege allow you access. Which will simply come back to you in increased subscription costs for each.
Never mind that you already paid for your 100Mb pipe. And all those services are paying for their fat pipes on to the Internet.
Most ISPs have already declared that is exactly what they want to do. And NN is the only thing stopping them.
I want people who complain to put forth something they think is REAL amidst a storm of FUD,
That's essentially trolling. If you really wanted information, you'd just go find it. What you want is to sneer at people. Good luck with that.
we'll see what actually plays out and see how valid your fears and concerns actually were.
That's already going to happen. We don't need your discount gauntlet test for that.
I think it's pretty telling you are not willing to commit to single negative aspect of NN being repealed.
I think it's pretty telling how laser focused you are at pissing on people you think are disagreeing with you. I haven't mentioned my feelings about NN in my reply to you because I don't care. The FCC will pass the measure, we'll have a couple years of ISPs trying to make as much hay out of it as possible, then a Dem admin will reverse it. It's all extremely yawnerrifc from my perspective.
Your actions speak louder than your (lack of) words...
Settle down, Beavis.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
Hrmmm well lets see here for a short list of shenanigans from prior to 2015:
2005 - Madison River Communications was blocking VOIP services. The FCC put a stop to it.
2005 - Comcast was denying access to p2p services without notifying customers.
2007-2009 - AT&T was having Skype and other VOIPs blocked because they didn't like there was competition for their cellphones.
2011 - MetroPCS tried to block all streaming except YouTube.
2011-2013, AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon were blocking access to Google Wallet because it competed with their own wallet apps.
2012, Verizon was demanding Google block tethering apps on android because it let owners avoid their $20 tethering fee. This was despite guaranteeing they wouldn't do that as part of a winning bid on an airwaves auction.
2012, AT&T - tried to block access to FaceTime unless customers paid more money.
Oh and this:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=388863
Oh and multiple attempts to created various tierd network services.
If you can't see the very predictable trajectory that ISPs have plotted their path on, then you've been drinking too much of the Kool-Aid that's been dripping from the Republican party's nether regions.
Netflix offered free hardware in order to reduce bandwidth usage which was causing ISPs trouble because they couldn't handle the amount of traffic that users were taking up when using Netflix. Basically they offered a reasonable solution to prevent the ISP from having to expand their network (because ISPs don't want to do this apparently) which would have cost them significantly more.
Netflix had enough servers and provisioned network capacity to handle the load. The ISPs didn't have enough network capacity to handle their users usage.
They'll start doing what they were doing before 2015, like they did to Netflix. A major ISP (Comcast, IIRC) throttled Netflix's throughput for a few months. The issue with Netflix content appeared rather abruptly, and then after Netflix agreed to pay an undisclosed amount it magically went away - as if their pipes could suddenly, almost magically, could handle the traffic again.
There were no longer allowed to do that under the Net Neutrality rules, and with Ajit Pai saying F U to everyone not from an ISP that kind of abuse will happen again.