[QUOTE=Wii60;52918025][media]https://twitter.com/AP4Liberty/status/933043189619052544[/media]
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I love how BF2 is one of metacritics lowest scored games ever
I say this as if this is the only issue with his statement, but lets just say that that is the best part of what he said
[QUOTE=VGDCMario;52920940]The reason we're being insane about it is
1. Once NN is gone it's gone for good.
2. Once 4chan is dead all the people who got their trolling fix from there will have to move on, either onto twitter (good luck) or into the real world. Kidnapping a flag is a lot less harmful in hindsight when compared to how much damage 4chan can inflict in the real world, especially since they won't get instant gratification from seeing their victim's reactions.[/QUOTE]
Your second largest concern is that people from a Korean Ricemaking Cartoon Hobby Image Board who use the shitty politics section and are likely smelly teenagers will be able to use websites and go outside they likely already do anyway?
Thinking about what happens when NN is gone, could this actually happen? Basically, the consumer does not pay anything extra, instead websites hosted in the US pay the extra cost. An example is, if you want to move your USA website to a higher speed ban, you have to pay more. I think what happens is when NN is gone, ISPs will advertise and likely actually set up higher speeds than usual, so people will say without NN the speeds are higher, and then they will do their trick.
[QUOTE=Deathking15;52920928]Can we all take a moment to take a breath, step back, and not assume we won't be fucked in every conceivable bodily crevice?
I'm for NN, I think with how monopolized many of the ISPs are it's necessary for a healthy internet because they most certainly [I]will[/I] take advantage, but I'm a bit more cautious to assume [B]everyone is out to get me[/B] and I think everyone should be a bit more cautious of that mentality as well, because it's a very toxic and unproductive mindset to have.
We need to work to ensure NN stays, but don't be insane about it.[/QUOTE]
It isn't that everyone is out to get you, it's that America is [b]VERY[/b] predatory when it comes to making money off people. Repealing net neutrality wouldn't be a big deal if we all had 3 or 4 ISPs to choose from, but we don't. So giving ISPs, who also own a lot of major cable networks, who also are now allowed to own ALL the commercial TV stations in one town AND the local news paper... It's a total suppression of the freedom of information
It gives them all the money from every direction AND let's them control all the information in their controlled territory. You are absolutely going to be pumped for more money, and your source of information is going to all come from, AND depend upon, a single corporation, who puts themselves and their profits first. Them.
No fucking thanks
[QUOTE=Toyokunari;52921086]Thinking about what happens when NN is gone, could this actually happen? Basically, the consumer does not pay anything extra, instead websites hosted in the US pay the extra cost. An example is, if you want to move your USA website to a higher speed ban, you have to pay more. I think what happens is when NN is gone, ISPs will advertise and likely actually set up higher speeds than usual, so people will say without NN the speeds are higher, and then they will do their trick.[/QUOTE]
not improbable, but the extra cost will be passed down to the consumer
It'd be interesting if some of the big companies that would be affected by this did something like a go slow.
Like for one day they throttle the traffic they're dealing with, or make their services artificially slow. A lot like the blackouts for SOPA and similar bills. They probably won't because of money, but it'd be a great way of illustrating to people how net neutrality would actually affect them.
[QUOTE=Intermission;52921069]Your second largest concern is that people from a Korean Ricemaking Cartoon Hobby Image Board who use the shitty politics section and are likely smelly teenagers will be able to use websites and go outside they likely already do anyway?[/QUOTE]
Well, the thing is they [B]won't[/B] be able to use 4chan. Once they can't meet eachother and thrive off eachother's trolling and pissing off Shia Lebouf they'll likely resort to trolling real life people, and with disappointment from not being covered by the media and feelings of their trolling attempts being futile unless they do something big. Like this
[video]https://youtu.be/eAqgXhblr-w[/video]
In the middle of the New York Stock Exchange.
And with the "4chan whimsy" of large-scale trolling, expertise at hacking, and methods of questionable legality, things'll suck.
I can understand people's apprehension at governmental regulation in the form of net neutrality, and if there were a bunch of little ISPs and we had stronger anti-trust laws, we probably wouldn't need NN regulation. But as it is, we have a small number of non-competing ISPs. And like lootboxes, once companies see they can profit at the expense of the consumer and they still bend over (or don't have a choice in the case of ISPs), they will do whatever it takes to get money. As such the shareholders demand.
[QUOTE=nagachief;52922951]I can understand people's apprehension at governmental regulation in the form of net neutrality, and if there were a bunch of little ISPs and we had stronger anti-trust laws, we probably wouldn't need NN regulation. But as it is, we have a small number of non-competing ISPs. And like lootboxes, once companies see they can profit at the expense of the consumer and they still bend over (or don't have a choice in the case of ISPs), they will do whatever it takes to get money. As such the shareholders demand.[/QUOTE]
the issue is that the fcc says that the ftc can do that but the ftc is a massive hammer and can't really deal with the individual small scale bullshit that he wants the fcc to get out of regulating
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