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R.I.P. Net Neutrality | |||||||
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Adapt Posted:
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Posted On: 04/06/2010 11:27PM | View That Reaction Fa...'s Profile | # | ||||||
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megazeroexe Posted:
This exactly. I’m really hoping the Supreme Court will rule in favor of the FCC. |
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Posted On: 04/06/2010 11:57PM | sdgrbbum09 | # | ||||||
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That Reaction Face Guy Posted: |
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Posted On: 04/07/2010 12:10AM | View Adapt's Profile | # | ||||||
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Skyman747 Posted:
Remember AOL and Compuserve? Seems to me the best we can hope for is the kind of internet we had 15+ years ago. Except this time they can actually stop you from seeing anyone else’s content. More like on demand TV, you get to choose from what that channel offers. Not what the internet has come to be about.
Chawin Posted:
I hope they see it that way. I think Adapt is right, though, profit is on the side of the one’s who can make you look at whatever site pays the most. |
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Posted On: 04/07/2010 12:19AM | View Bacchus's Profile | # | ||||||
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oh look, the inevitable has happened.
Okay, only a fool (see: optimist) would imagine this would never come to happen. Yes the big businesses are real bumholes when they take control of the internet we know and love so much and put a price on these goods and services that we couldn’t live without unless it was over four years ago when it didnt exist. Remember that one time Murdoch and Fox bought out MySpace and the gigantic fee hike that immediately followed. Or how about when Google bought out YouTube and there was a fee added shortly after. Yeah those were real panic starters. But you are all shocked and saying OMG END OF THE INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT! yeah chalk that one up on the number of times you have said that in the past few years. And if this is, in fact, the prophecised End of the Free Internet that people have been fearing for as long as i can remember, you may as well thank your applicable deity (if any) that the corporations held out for so long when they had just as much ability to do it five years ago. And…I know what you are all thinking, maybe they just made the internet so integrated into common life that everybody is now obligated to pay the higher prices as opposed to a few years ago when you didnt HAVE to use the internet. Well in that case wouldnt we all be the cause of this problem by allowing ourselves to become dependent? Meh…me just giving food for thought. Ignore me, go back to reading your fearmongering blog. Good night everybody! dobnits edited this message on 04/07/2010 3:38AM |
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Posted On: 04/07/2010 3:23AM | View dobnits's Profile | # | ||||||
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sdgrbbum09 Posted: A court that routinely rules 5-4 in favor of private enterprise? Good luck with that. |
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Posted On: 04/07/2010 3:39AM | View Doc_Holliday's Profile | # | ||||||
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man-man Posted:
Or beating them to the punch. Log in to see images! |
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Posted On: 04/07/2010 4:18AM | View Wyrd's Profile | # | ||||||
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frankly it’s optimistic to think that this can realistically stop technologically savvy infringers or global syndicates like all those russian viruses or pirated dvds out of hong kong. OMG WE CAN’T DO ANYTHING unless we set up proxies use obscure local hosting companies, encrypt our data, etc, etc, etc. and yes, technically, even good encryption can be broken eventually but with yattabytes of data being processed worldwide who’s going to go out of their way to decrypt a gig or two a day? |
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Posted On: 04/07/2010 7:09PM | View Fortunato's Profile | # | ||||||
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Chawin Posted:
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The real reason smoking remains legal is the huge amount of taxation the governments receive from it, as well as the impracticality of enforcing a ban. Which, you know, doesn’t apply to the internet.
Over in England, I’m thinking that we may as well have coin-operated, government-approved internet connections now. First, a hint towards the approval on the filesharing ban, and now this? Can we at least keep the breach of civil liberties to real life?
Admittedely, I could live without filesharing, if it ever came to pbum. Sure, it would **** me off, but a lot of what I download is music, and I own physical copies of pretty much everything I download anyway, since I like to own it.
But stripping back Net Neutrality? Hell no. I don’t want to get into an e-queue. |
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Posted On: 04/07/2010 7:20PM | View Drakodan's Profile | # | ||||||
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Wyrd Posted: |
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Posted On: 04/08/2010 11:56PM | View Bacchus's Profile | # | ||||||
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I shall miss thee, o’ neutrality of this internet. See you on the other side, lol. |
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Posted On: 04/09/2010 11:03AM | View Crazy_Smurf's Profile | # | ||||||
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Wyrd Posted: |
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Posted On: 04/09/2010 12:27PM | View man-man's Profile | # | ||||||
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this is a ****ty development. |
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Posted On: 04/09/2010 12:32PM | View plk's Profile | # | ||||||
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