oh SH!T - net neutrality
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Basically net neutrality is what we have now. When you access content online, whether it's Comcast's website, CNN, YouTube, streaming music, Bittorrent, whatever, it's delivered with the same speed by the internet provider right? You might get faster overall speed depending on what kind of connection you paid for, but the speed of individual "stuff" isn't regulated in any way.
Broadband companies would like to move away from that and give themselves the power to speed up or slow down access to different websites or types of content. They say that overall web traffic is getting overloaded to the point where they need to be able to prioritize traffic. People in favor of NN, which includes most people in the tech industry, will respond that a better solution would be to just add more bandwidth, and that the power will inevitably be abused by corporations that might own many of the businesses that are being accessed. There's also the worry that it would prevent the next startup from getting off the ground the way say, YouTube did, because things like streaming video could become prohibitively expensive for a small company.
Comcast actually tested the waters by crippling bit torrent downloads for their customers across the board. The Obama administration took them to court over it, but the court ultimately ruled that the FCC didn't have the authority to regulate broadband (since apparently Congress never gave them that authority). So the logical step would be to pass a bill making net neutrality official. Unfortunately some Democrats and pretty much all Republicans are against it because they are corrupt motherfuckers.
In the meantime, Google made their own "deal" with Verizon that basically guaranteed net neutrality for traditional internet service, but not for wireless internet. People got pissed because they thought this pretty much undermined the entire principle since everything's more or less expected to be wireless someday.
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net neutrality goooood!SteveJobs - thank you for explaining that so well!!!mrghost
- Holy cow. You have no idea what you're talking about.VikingKingEleven
- wireless gives you cancer thoughPupsipu
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