US NET NEUTRALITY DEADLINE WAS PUSHED BACK 2 WEEKS DUE TO CONGRESS NEEDING TO AVOID GOV'T SHUTDOWN!!! WE HAVE MORE TIME!!!

www.deadlinefornetneutrality.com

GET 'EM BOYS

@sabbonaut uh... Its absence also allows all the ISPs to conglomerate, leaving no choice, then do whatever they want, including throttling and censorship of competitors of their services for streaming and such, preventing a free market for Internet services. It also allows them to charge outrageous prices for very little service, and if they all merge, there's only two choices: Internet, Inc. or nothing.

@sabbonaut Again, they're allowed to monopolize, and they don't have to make any pact with whoever they throttle or block beforehand. If they monopolize, we have NO ONE ELSE TO TURN TO, so how do we "go somewhere else" if there's only one fucking ISP?

@sabbonaut If Netflix and PornHub use shitloads of bandwidth, maybe they should pay more. To *their* upstream providers. The costs should be worked out through existing systems of peering agreements. What service a private consumer wants to download from (subject to their overall data plans, laws against terrorism/CP etc) shouldn't be discriminated at that end.

@sabbonaut Net Neutrality has nothing to do with Netflix and Pornhub having to pay more money to use more bandwidth, because they already do that. Net neutrality is about the fact that one bit costs the same regardless of site you visit.

Before net neutrality in the US you had companies like Comcast blocking p2p and bittorrent[1], and AT&T blocking facetime for people that didn't subscribe to their lowest data plans[2]

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/...

https://cio.com/article/2390480/...

@sabbonaut >have used AT&T and ComCast and have never encountered throttling

https://consumerist.com/2014/02/...
https://zdnet.com/article/...
https://digitalmusicnews.com/2018/...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...
https://usatoday.com/story/tech/...

I wonder why...

Also, try googling "comcast throttling" or "at&t throttling" to see how widespread it is instead of just saying "I don't see it, so it doesn't exist."

@sabbonaut Plus, you speak like this regulation would be new. It's not, we've gone many years with Net Neutrality and it worked *really fucking well* and let ISPs grow and flourish while protecting the consumer. It was one thing the government finally fucking did right.