Net Neutrality BITCHESSS

[Eulogy]

Everyone agrees with him on this though

[Tootles]

Eloquently written Poots.

[Order 66]

were you always this bad or

[MyOneAndOnly]

He would fit in better if he never posted again

[Trotskilicious]

thing is poots ive seen you demonstrate intellect so the flippant way you dismiss things youre ignorant of is frustrating but whatever bruh

this was a big victory, if you want to know more abt why watch the john oliver thing that went viral and i think really helped galvanize the public abt this issue

[Shallowed]

That almost makes a rainbow pattern

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by Tootles

Eloquently written Poots.

Why don't you both just go to shadowland

Not every place is for every person. Self selection isn't inherently bad. Over the course of fifteen goddamn years this has become a place for relatively like minded individuals to talk about things and to argue over the minutiae they disagree about since they (we) agree on almost every larger issue.

Why is this so hard for people to get

It's not like we isolate ourselves from bad ideas. We encounter them everywhere. There's just no need for us to encounter them here. Ugh.

[Starla]

The internet is already slower today. Thanks Obama.

[jczeroman]

Thank goodness I can now have full access to my binges of House of Cards and make those idiot cancer researchers and driverless car inventors wait their damn turn!

[Elphenor]

*rolls eyes*

[Order 66]

i... what?

[Tchocky]

Originally Posted by jczeroman

Thank goodness I can now have full access to my binges of House of Cards and make those idiot cancer researchers and driverless car inventors wait their damn turn!

A pity, right? I was totally looking forward to an internet in which ISPs have the ability to throttle or outright block what I want to do on the web on a whim, because an internet where big ISPs have free reign is better than what we have now.

[Tchocky]

Oh wait, that would blow.

But y'know...government evil, corporations good, because free market.

[jczeroman]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

A pity, right? I was totally looking forward to an internet in which ISPs have the ability to throttle or outright block what I want to do on the web on a whim, because an internet where big ISPs have free reign is better than what we have now.

Was this happening?

[Tchocky]

Originally Posted by jczeroman

Was this happening?

Dunno. Let's ask Netflix users:

http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2...et-neutrality/

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by jczeroman

Thank goodness I can now have full access to my binges of House of Cards and make those idiot cancer researchers and driverless car inventors wait their damn turn!

Are you

Fucking

Kidding me

[Eulogy]

Dude. You are just not nearly as bright as you think you are.

[Eulogy]

A bob Barr voter, everyone.

[Eulogy]

Because everyone knows comcast would altruistically open up a superhighway for cancer researchers

Are you a fucking moron? That's a serious question.

[Order 66]

why yes, yes i am

[Order 66]

oh you werent talking to me. nvm

[Eulogy]

And if anyone were to actually open a superhighway for cancer researchers it would be the motherfucking government

Someone just kill me

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by jczeroman

Was this happening?

You don't apply this logic to literally anything else!

RAAAAAHHHHHHHH

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

Someone just kill me

.

[Tchocky]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

Because everyone knows comcast would altruistically open up a superhighway for cancer researchers

B...but Net Neutrality = Big government, and big government BAD!

[jczeroman]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

Dunno. Let's ask Netflix users:

http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2...et-neutrality/

Tell me if I am reading the chart wrong, because here is what I'm seeing:

1) Because netflix uses a crap load of bandwidth, Comcast held them hostage until they paid a higher price than everyone else.

2) At the same time Comcast was holding Netflix hostage, download speeds under other companies (ATT, Verizon) also went down.

3) However, Netflix also experienced much faster download speeds during this same period with other companies (Cox, Cablevision, Google).

In other words, some ISPs tried to make Netflix pay, others offered Netflix *faster* speeds.

I see how this is *possibly* a problem if there were maybe one or two ISPs, but there are several and even in this instance, it looks like some tried to play hardball while others didn't. If anything, it seems to be like Netflix is the most evil company here. Why should a company which takes up the largest portion of bandwidth in the United States get to have that share of the market without paying a premium? I don't understand why Netflix shouldn't have to pay for dominating web traffic like that.

Moreover, I do not see how making the single largest user of US internet traffic pay a premium is somehow equivalent to "ISPs have the ability to throttle or outright block what I want to do on the web on a whim". Do you own Netflix or something?

[jczeroman]

I also support making people pay for luggage on flights. I like toll roads. I think people who drive more should pay higher gas taxes. It has nothing to do with ideology and everything to do with the fact that I subscribe to the radical notion that people should be responsible and accountable for what they use. I don't think that a massive service like Netflix deserves to be subsidized by smaller services.

[duovamp]

Cancer would've been cured right now if scienceoligists weren't using shitty internet. Thanks, Obama. More sick patients for him to kill.

[Trotskilicious]

i hear he masturbates during death panels

[Elphenor]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

And if anyone were to actually open a superhighway for cancer researchers it would be the motherfucking government

EXACTLY