The Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality - July 12

[Sean Kyle]

It is the action day on which a lot of brands and people are actively participating in a digital sort of a protest to save Net Neutrality. Some of the interesting one's from different brands which I have come across are: Reddit, Imgur, Twitch, Netflix, Twitter Blog, Purevpn Blog, Google Blog
I'm sure many of you know about it and would be doing things. I just wanna let those know about it who do not yet and just wanna ask you guys to raise your vice if you support net neutrality!

 

[DigDog]

posting here since http://www.portvapes.co.uk/?id=Latest-exam-1Z0-876-Dumps&exid=threads/net-neutrality-rules-are-good-or-bad.2508837/ seems to have died.

so, i'm thinking "what happens if the law passes".

well, probably not much for me, as i'm not a US resident. But this seems to be as a new version of the fritz chip. I'm talking ONLY about the "shaping bandwidth" part of the bill, not the other dodgy things that might have been hidden in it.

In a free market, who would ever want to sell a product vastly outperformed by a competitor, if not in a monopoly? If i start selling computers with the fritz chip in them, then any competitor offering computers without the chip would have their sales go through the roof.
Likewise, if ISP #1 starts slowing down your netflix, then ISP #2 could promote itself as "no slowdowns" and would eat the market in a matter of months. Surely they must have seen this side of things?

 

[J.Wilkins]

posting here since http://www.portvapes.co.uk/?id=Latest-exam-1Z0-876-Dumps&exid=threads/net-neutrality-rules-are-good-or-bad.2508837/ seems to have died.

so, i'm thinking "what happens if the law passes".

well, probably not much for me, as i'm not a US resident. But this seems to be as a new version of the fritz chip. I'm talking ONLY about the "shaping bandwidth" part of the bill, not the other dodgy things that might have been hidden in it.

In a free market, who would ever want to sell a product vastly outperformed by a competitor, if not in a monopoly? If i start selling computers with the fritz chip in them, then any competitor offering computers without the chip would have their sales go through the roof.
Likewise, if ISP #1 starts slowing down your netflix, then ISP #2 could promote itself as "no slowdowns" and would eat the market in a matter of months. Surely they must have seen this side of things?

When you have no actual choice of provider, which is the case in most of the US, you don't really have the choice of saying "FU" to the only choice you have.

It has never been a free market before and I doubt that they will crack down on it now and ensure a free market where everyone gets to play and use in place infrastructure, where price fixing and market parting would be illegal.

Also, it's not only about consumers paying for reasonable bandwidth speeds, the providers of content can also be milked. You want your site to be viewed in the US? Better pony up that cash to make it so. It will ensure that the mega providers are growing faster since they can afford to pay for it while the new and the small will be all but restricted from getting their content viewed by American customers.

Couple that with the state of lobbyism and kickbacks that is nothing but legalized bribery and you'll soon have a climate where what is deemed as "fake news" by the people in charge will be slowed down to a crawl.

 

[TeeJay1952]

The social contract is broken. The noise won in the noise to information war.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Oh right I totally forgot about this. I signed up for it, but the site/organizer was never clear about what it even entailed, ex: do I do like SOPA and go dark? Do I put a blurb going to a certain link? They never really mentioned details. So I never ended up doing anything.

Thankfully here in Canada we won that battle, but it sucks that every year it seems we have to fight this. Even if it's just the US in this case it really affects everyone given most web servers, services etc are hosted in the US. It also affects sites not hosted in the US if a good portion of their audience is in the US as they will be affected and think it's the site in question. Basically this is yet another situations where the government caters only to the megacorps, since they'll be able to afford to be in the "fast lane" by default.