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Net neutrality, people or profits ? - 9/3/2014 12:22:11 PM

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Coming sometime this year...net neutrality, equal treatment for all OR...they get to squeeze you out if you don't pay up.

I am not hopeful especially given Wheeler's looking as if he's about to sell put. Probably has a real nice high 6 fig. salary waiting for him at Comcast or Time Warner with a promise of more to come later. Can you imagine a bidding war between Google and Bing (MicroSoft) ?

Without net neutrality, the web could look very different: If, for instance, an Internet service provider wanted to wipe a site off the Internet's map, all it would have to do is dial back its load time and people would stop visiting. To stave off that fate, sites would wind up paying a ransom to the providers, or tone down criticism of those with their fingers on the dial. Sites that couldn't afford to pay, or wouldn't play ball, would simply wither.

In April, agency Chairman Tom Wheeler introduced a draft proposal that would still effectively end net neutrality, though he puzzlingly claimed in public that it would not.

The pertinent sector of the investor class is cashing in their free speech...er money.

Recently, Comcast and Time Warner Cable teamed up to spend $132,000 to sponsor a dinner honoring Clyburn, but pulled out after ethics groups questioned the motives of their sponsorship. The broadband providers have also funneled a fortune to the NAACP, which has privately sided with them against net neutrality despite stating publicly that it neither supports nor opposes the concept.

""I also support an open Internet," Rosenworcel said in the speech. "So I have real concerns about FCC Chairman Wheeler’s proposal on network neutrality -- which is before the agency right now."

Wheeler is an outright liar as I saw his public presentation where he clearly favors ISP's being able to rig the net in their for-profit interest. Now he comes with his spin that he favors net neutrality, saying any other interpretation...is a misunderstanding. YEAA right man...sure.

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RE: Net neutrality, people or profits ? - 9/3/2014 1:08:11 PM

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Been following this for a long time,
this guy has it nailed down(john oliver)
AGAIN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU

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RE: Net neutrality, people or profits ? - 9/3/2014 2:46:41 PM

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It seems that net neutrality, based on what I've read, would be a good thing.

So, why would an organization such as the N.A.A.C.P. be AGAINST it?

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RE: Net neutrality, people or profits ? - 9/3/2014 2:56:47 PM

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Read this...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/salesforce/2014/09/01/what-net-neutrality/
or watch the clip

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RE: Net neutrality, people or profits ? - 9/3/2014 4:32:19 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

Read this...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/salesforce/2014/09/01/what-net-neutrality/
or watch the clip

Liked your link.

Harvard Business Review blog, Robert E. Litan, vice president for research and policy at the Kauffman Foundation and a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institute, and Hal J. Singer, a managing director at Navigant Economics, argue that businesses need internet service providers to continue investing in their broadband networks, and they also need the opportunity to innovate.

But what is wrong with this statement from those above who are for in fact...greater restrictions ?

"“Priority delivery would enable certain real-time applications to operate free of jitter and generally perform at higher levels,” they argue, adding, “Absent net neutrality restrictions, entrepreneurs in their garages would devote significant energies trying to topple Google with the next killer application.” No they wouldn't.

First ISP's are already investing in their networks and invest in what will give them the greatest return. What is wrong with that statement is that current net neutrality presents no restrictions except those designed for a higher profit as opposed say...to Europe.

Any restrictions placed on current neutrality would be those designed to create that second or lower tier of the net. Thus extorting current businesses to pay up or get marginalized.

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RE: Net neutrality, people or profits ? - 9/3/2014 4:33:41 PM

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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant

It seems that net neutrality, based on what I've read, would be a good thing.

So, why would an organization such as the N.A.A.C.P. be AGAINST it?

They too are being paid.

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RE: Net neutrality, people or profits ? - 9/3/2014 4:48:05 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

Been following this for a long time,
this guy has it nailed down(john oliver)
AGAIN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU

I had no idea he was that funny. I enjoyed how he embellished it all.

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