Raphi3L wrote:

I am for net neutrality, but at the end of the day, what can we do? Complain?
Big time government figures like Ajit won't care what we say. Big time ISP companies like Verizon won't care what we say. The truth is, we can't do anything to change it. Big ISP's like Verizon and Sprint are profiting so much from this repeal of the Net Neu. so they won't be happy to have it back. And if you know how the government works, you'd know that big companies like those pull the strings of the government, behind the scenes. Corrupt? Yes, very. Will the government or the companies admit to this? Use your common sense, nobody would admit to that. If they did admit to this, our government will be brought down and chaos will ensue, and what will this country be then?
Boycott those ISP's? Impossible. Most people use the internet around the USA. It would be NEAR IMPOSSIBLE for the population of the USA to not use the internet, for two reasons:
1) Failure to stop people from using the internet
2) Human nature to check their phone every 2 minutes.

All we can do as a population is to hope that those people in the government who are on our side win this despicable debate.

If I don't sound angry enough, blame the fact that this is scratch and I can't use certain words.

jromagnoli wrote:

Raphi3L wrote:

I am for net neutrality, but at the end of the day, what can we do? Complain?
Big time government figures like Ajit won't care what we say. Big time ISP companies like Verizon won't care what we say. The truth is, we can't do anything to change it. Big ISP's like Verizon and Sprint are profiting so much from this repeal of the Net Neu. so they won't be happy to have it back. And if you know how the government works, you'd know that big companies like those pull the strings of the government, behind the scenes. Corrupt? Yes, very. Will the government or the companies admit to this? Use your common sense, nobody would admit to that. If they did admit to this, our government will be brought down and chaos will ensue, and what will this country be then?
Boycott those ISP's? Impossible. Most people use the internet around the USA. It would be NEAR IMPOSSIBLE for the population of the USA to not use the internet, for two reasons:
1) Failure to stop people from using the internet
2) Human nature to check their phone every 2 minutes.

All we can do as a population is to hope that those people in the government who are on our side win this despicable debate.

If I don't sound angry enough, blame the fact that this is scratch and I can't use certain words.

One fix is to completely deregulate the telecom/internet sector. This would flood the market with competitors and then you could boycott the big companies. It probably wouldn't hurt much to deregulate because most regulations are barely effective anyway.

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MasterOfTheTiger wrote:

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MasterOfTheTiger wrote:

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SoftAndWet wrote:

Generic_Joke2 wrote:

yes Net Neutrality has died good

What's so good about that?

It unlocks the internet to a capitalist scene where the internet can evolve and grow much faster.

As long as they follow the general philosophy of net neutrality, even without the regulations, then things will be fine, but if they abuse it, then we are in huge trouble. See, net neutrality is the idea of keeping everything equal, and the regulations were to be sure of this. The whole world wide web was build apron a foundation of equality. Without it, bad things can happen fast. Even with net neutrality you see these buisinesses abuse their positions and disadvantage their users. The Internet effectively belongs to these tech giants like Google, Facebook, and mostly Amazon. That is something Tim Berners-Lee is trying to fix with his project Solid. The web was made to be decentralized, no central power, and net neutrality is working to help defend it.

In conclusion. Yes, the regulations being lost is bad, but even they did not stop the foundational issue of the web being too centralized.

- MOTT

The internet was never meant to be exposed to consumers. It was invented for scientists, which wouldn't have this problem as the scientists run it.

It was decentralized then, and it needs to be decentralized now. Otherwise we run into major problems.

To be honest, it should be a utility. Like a road, the Internet is really just a way to connect 2 points (IP addresses). Therefore, since roads are govt. provided utilities, so should the Internet.

if the government provides the internet it gives them extreme power. remember edward snowden? the government not only provides the roads but also controls them. it would be the same thing with the internet. it should be a network of servers that you can connect to directly, not through a provider.

The government doesn't have the right to say, oh you're watering your garden too much, so no more water for you. Or, oh, you're using your power to run a miniature supercomputer in your basement. To be honest, even if they did, why would they care? Same's with the internet. Many cities in the US have laid their own fiber out and offered it as a utility, and the cities rapidly outcompeted the ISPs. Also, the roads are not capable of being locked down indefinitely in America, yet the government controls them. Sure, they can blockade a road for maintenance, planned events, and so on, but is that a bad thing? They never block off the only path to something, so you can still use the non-blocaded roads if you want.

ISP's force you into set plans for set data uses, charge huge overage fees for when you use more, and so on. If the internet were a utility like water, there's no such thing as an ‘overage’. They simply charge you per gigabyte you use.

PrincessPanda_test_ wrote:

Internet service providers selling browser history?!?!

Oh no no, you're gonna sell what I've done on Scratch, the TBGs, and TVTropes.

Kype720184 wrote:

PrincessPanda_test_ wrote:

Internet service providers selling browser history?!?!

Oh no no, you're gonna sell what I've done on Scratch, the TBGs, and TVTropes.

How about Data Protection, GDPR, and the Data Protection act 2018?

Edit: I would also recommend looking at this.

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mario91100_TEST wrote:

Hoo boy, didn't know it was today.

Honestly, though, why can't we go a year or two without some attempt to screw with the internet in some way?

It's the FCC and Comcast trying to screw with the Internet, or, more specifically, Title II Net Neutrality. We're trying to defend the free Internet from them.