Slow site today?

[+Erik 1,731]

 

We didn't slow down our site today but big ISPs will if they win their fight to roll back internet regulations at the FCC.

 

American businesses and citizens are in the biggest protest against the FCC to date. The FCC is planning on rolling back regulations from 2015 that classified ISPs and safeguarded our internet. Trump appointed FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has made it his mission to deregulate the internet and thereby giving complete authority and power back to big business ISPs like Comcast and Verizon. The protest starts internet wide on July 12, 2017. Millions of people and businesses are fighting for your rights and we need you to spend a few minutes sharing your vote to help us keep the internet net neutral. 

 

You may say to yourself this doesn't involve me but you'd be dead wrong. Once the regulations are removed there's no going back and big ISPs will control everything from what they mine from your content to the speed at which they deliver it.

 

You can't sit this one out we need you!  

 

 

GO NOW!!! ----> https://www.battleforthenet.com/

 

 

Background Info: http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/07/11/535804285/internet-companies-plan-online-campaign-to-keep-net-neutrality-rules

[+Typhoid 231]

I waved off of this subject before but I'm going to toss a turd into the punch bowl once again.  The whole net-neutrality thing is a scam. 

 

good article here on why that is so;

 

https://fee.org/articles/net-nonsense/

 

a bit top level but it hits the key point, any such effort to limit or restrict content would be economically suicidal for ISP's to do. 

 

There are numerous ISP's out there and the technology has advanced by leaps and bounds without any help or hindrance from the Feds.  The whole net-neutrality scam was really about suckering people into handing control of the internet to a cabal of insiders within the FCC.  There was and is no reason for it. 

 

Competition is alive and well without any help from the Feds.  Local example - there are at least 4 local providers here who all offer 1 gb/sec service.  if you don't like one, go with another.  The options are increasing all the time. 

 

Let Freedom reign, it works every time. 

[+Erik 1,731]

Well the punch is ruined. I suggest the red and blue coolers where you'll find something refreshing.

So let's address the floating object.

The Article - Nothing top level about it, it's an uneducated view of the problem.

Economically suicidal for ISP's - Let's explain that to the many companies that have been subject to such "suicide":

• ISPs blocked Google Wallet on smartphones because they were developing Softcard.
• ISPs have and do manipulate the way you can tether your devices. Starting 2012 Verizon was charging $20 for this service to extort a per device connection rate. AT&T still restricts it unless you are on a special plan.
• AT&T blocked FaceTime on Apple devices and Google Hangouts on Android devices.
• Comcast throttled BitTorret connections and if you were found to use BitTorret it dialed back your personal connection regardless of what plan you were on. They still do as well as other ISPs.
• Comcast and Netflix which was extorted to pay Comcast to remove the throttling to continue to be able to provide their services to their customers.
• ISPs and streaming music, Sony PSN, YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, Google.
• and the list goes on and on ...
• No net neutrality means that ISPs can decide which businesses they will allow traffic from and at which speeds. It's a life or death issue for small business ... oh you want to start an electronic card service, nope we want to only promote ours ... oh you want to stream using our internet, nope we have our own that is much better than yours anyway... oh you want to start up some gaming, no if our customers want to game they can use our apps.

There are numerous ISP's out there - ahhhhhh yes but how many of them service your physical address with a physical connection? Just because I want to use TimeWarner and they are out there doesn't mean that connection is available to me, same for Google fiber, Verizon Fiber, DSL, etc, etc, etc.

 

And the technology has advanced by leaps and bounds without any help or hindrance from the Feds. - Yeah there was no Federal involvement in advancement at all, unless you count stuff like this: http://www.fiercetelecom.com/special-report/at-t-frontier-others-accept-1-5b-caf-ii-funding-despite-fcc-s-changing-broadband

 

The whole net-neutrality scam was really about suckering people into handing control of the internet to a cabal of insiders within the FCC. There was and is no reason for it. - This is not true in the least, we asked the FCC to protect the internet under Title II which means that the FCC maintains its ability to oversee and address problems within the market. Control of the internet is and has always been with the people that own the core structure and routers and that is the governments themselves.

 

Competition is alive and well without any help from the Feds. - That's called capitalism and you can bet your backside the Feds are involved in that.

 

Local example - there are at least 4 local providers here who all offer 1 gb/sec service. if you don't like one, go with another. The options are increasing all the time. - 1 Gbps services is 125 MB/s. Local providers all have coverage maps and depending where you are means that your accessibility to those providers varies but in land based services those are generally not duplicated. Generally you'll have one cable option and one telephone option but you may only have one or none of those and some fortunate people have access to fiber optics giving them a potential third or whatever. Wireless to date doesn't have the channels available to offer higher speeds like you'd see in land based options. The FCC is trying to free up channels that are currently in use by the older satellite system but that's not done yet. Maybe in the future we'll see some competition between wireless and wired connections. The last option is geo satellite service which is adequate for some services but not for anything that requires a constant connection as the lag between your router and the first hop is 100-1200 miles away. 

Let Freedom reign, it works every time. - I agree whole heartedly ... that's why eliminating the Title II protections of the internet are just the opposite. Removing Title II means that ISPs will be in control of themselves, a for profit business that are against net neutrality and ague they can and only will do what is right for the communities they serve. Nobody believes that. IOW they will be self policing as a private non public system to allow the traffic they want to, at the speed they want, and at the price they want.