If the net neutrality repeal vote goes through
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97.6% of everything you see on TV is utter horseshit. Even the weather segments of news programs are designed to make you scared and complacent. Twitter, Facebook, and an overwhelming majority of online sources are controlled by a group of left wing communist social justice algorithm robots, hell bent on the destruction of free thinking individuals.
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" pretty much this http://www.pcgamer.com/this-is-what-your-internet-service-could-look-like-without-net-neutrality/ I dont see any any key!
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" Is this only for US? or it affects all the world ? I'm actually scared.... don't like this one bit. |
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its US
the example I posted is from Portugal where there is no net neutrality and ISPs are allowed to run amuck hopefully the US ISPs will be more merciful I dont see any any key!
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" This is simply not true the nn act was the result of years and years of legal procedures it did not start in 2015 it started as far back as 2003. [Removed by Support]
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” |
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The Internet is a single connected thing, universal to the entire globe. Americans letting our dumbass politicos appoint filthy Verizon scumsucking lawyers to the FCC so they can dismantle net neutrality affects the entire Internet. Not as severely as it will affect us, but you can't dice off a part of the Internet, treat it differently, and not have bleedover, especially with organizations like these that maintain a global presence and infrastructure.
Big Telecom didn't push savagely for years to get net neutrality repealed and given free reign to be gigantic profitmongering shitlords without any sort of oversight, accountability, or reasonable competition just so they could not do those things. If they weren't interested in charging higher prices for lower-quality service, pricing competitors to the old-money traditional media companies they're in bed with off the Internet, choking access to websites, services, or content makers that didn't pay their Note that these companies are basically quasi-legal monopolies. They have all the protections of a utility company because you need those protections to implement and maintain the actual physical infrastructure required to be a telecom company, but they have none of the accountability or restrictions a utility company has to work within to be a utility company. Note the universal hatred in the United States for Comcast, which is legendary for their extremely poor, overpriced, unreliable service - and also for ensuring through whatever means necessary that their 'customers' (read: hostages) have no other ISP to turn to in protest over Comcast being a horrible company run by horrible people. This is not "oh, we're just back to it being 2014 now". Prior to then, ISPs knew that if they tried this bullshit without explicit prior permission from the FCC or other governing authorities they'd get hammered. Well, guess what? Now they have the FCC's explicit prior permission to do whatever they like, no matter how harmful it'll be for their 'customers' or how destructive it will be for the Internet as a whole. Oh, they won't lower the boom all at once. They've been falling all over themselves lately to say "all this apocalyptic fearmongering is nonsense. We're not going to use our newfound power as Undisputed Masters of the Internet to make your lives a living hell even though that's exactly what we've been campaigning to do for two years now. It'll be business as usual for all of our consumer customers, we prooooomise." They'll do it bit by bit, piece by piece, one "value-priced premium service addition" at a time. Make it seem harmless, make people think they're not actually profitmongering shitlords, until ten or fifteen years from now when we're all paying five times the bill for half the service we're used to, our ToS agreements all come with a list fifty pages long of websites/website types/content/content types we agree our ISP is permitted to freely ban without legal repercussion, and these friggin' companies are hard to distinguish from cyberpunk megacorps. And if you don't think all that throttled traffic and draconian ironclad control of the web is going to hurt other people in other countries...well, I wish I could believe like you do. Ask a Chinese citizen how much they enjoy their tightly controlled, regulated, and filtered Internet - then remember that Big Corporate is always a dozen times worse than any government when it comes to corruption. God, this entire year has been a nightmare. On behalf of all the sane and reasonable people in my country who're as horrified by the events of this badministration as you guys are: I'm so sorry. I swear we tried. I've never been ashamed of being American before but fuckin' hell if the events of this year haven't done the job. She/Her
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Online gaming was fun while it lasted.
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" oh it will still be around We will just have to pay our ISP a big ass additional fee to play lol I dont see any any key!
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" Parody or sincere? You decide! PS: NN is at best a patchwork. Anti trust, local loop unbundling and deregulation where regulatory captura applies are better solutions (I think Australia is a good example of that, someone can correct me if I'm wrong), but good fucking luck with that in the US. Add a Forsaken Masters questline
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Good fucking luck indeed. None of that is remotely likely until we manage to find some way any way to get the GOD DAMNED BUSINESSMEN out of government. How do you guys do that in Australia? Net Neutrality may be a patchwork solution, but it's a better one than letting corporate shark-people indulge in a completely unregulated feeding frenzy. I have no idea how the rest of the world manages to get away with it so cleanly but good gabbering gods you cannot trust an American capitalist unless there's at least three watchdogs on him at all times to ensure he doesn't go off and do something to screw over everyone else in Creation for some idiotic short-term gain exclusive to them.
Exhibit A: the current Badministration. Ugh. Anyways...my violent, virulent and incurable hatred for all things corporate aside, Path of Exile will likely soldier on without major incident. We won't be able to play it here in the U.S., so they'll lose a significant revenue source (I'm sorry international folks, but the U.S. is a significant market. Or was, prior to today), but Grinding Gear's in New Zealand and has to deal with New Zealand's laws, not ours. American Internet hackjobs may slow down their systems when their data goes through infrastructure controlled by the bloated carnivorous vampire covens that are American telecom companies, so they'll need to snap up their netcode if they can or find a way to not send any data into/through the U.S. Whether they'll continue to update at the pace they have been without significant American investment I cannot say, but the company won't go under or shit. She/Her
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