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FCC Proposal Passes In Landmark Decision; Net Neutrality And Municipal Broadband Wins, ISPs Lose

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Is anyone else a little shocked that this actually passed as quickly as it did?
It passed pretty quickly, but this change did not come soon enough if you ask me. But hopefully we'll start seeing drastic improvements from here on out. I'm just wondering how long it'll actually take for ISPs to start taking action with these new rules and regulations.
 
Not sure what to think, really. Comcast already has me bent over the saw-horse tickling the ol' prostate with their overpriced service(s). I just hope this doesn't lead to more "extra" fees and taxes being added to my already high monthly bill! One thing's for sure, I do know how to call and cancel!
 
So tell me The Original Ralph, I have been seeing fewer carriers in my neighborhood. OH WAIT THERE IS ONLY ONE!!! TWC!!!! Prices have been steadily increasing since 2006 for me when I moved in my house and yet still no speed increase. I wonder who I will got too. OH WAIT... NOBODY!!!! CAUSE TWC OWNS MY NECK OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND WILL NOT ALLOW ANYONE ELSE BECAUSE THEY FEAR COMPETITION. So tell me how net neutrality make me loose.

SO TELL ME HOW THEY ARE NOT A MONOPOLY IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD?

News flash buddy, the cost of the net was going to go up if net neutrality wasnt in place including your phone bill and any internet service you would by buying (ie NETFLIX, HULU, How you would have like to be charge for using pandora just because your ISP says so and if not, you will not be able to use it unless you pay)

I guess you like being strangled by the balls. Go home and rethink what net neutrality is all about. I guess you don't like equal rights and are in favor of slaves.
 
So the internet is a utility now. How do you pay for your other utilities. Phone by the minute, electricity by the kilowatt.... so now you will get the fastest internet speed your provider offers but you will pay by the gig. Better hope you are not a power user.
 
Not sure what to think, really. Comcast already has me bent over the saw-horse tickling the ol' prostate with their overpriced service(s). I just hope this doesn't lead to more "extra" fees and taxes being added to my already high monthly bill! One thing's for sure, I do know how to call and cancel!

You will have to pay the new taxes this will result in.
 
The vote to make the Internet a government utility and remove restrictions on the Internet that limit usage passed with editorial rights. As a result of the new legislation, it now becomes illegal for ISPs to monitor the Internet usage of its customers.

But it will be ok for the government to do so, correct?
 
I can't believe all the drones that read this website. How can you or even the authors know that this is a win for the consumer and a loss for the ISP? The actual regulations were never released. They kept them under wraps. Wheeler himself refused to answer any questions from Congress about it. It's writers called it "net neutrality" because they knew such a name would make it sound fair and good just by it's very name.
 

Precisely. And that it was kept from public view can ONLY be nefarious. Next time you do your shopping, be sure to pick up some Vaseline...
 
Sooo... because the government could possibly do something bad with the regulations... we should all just let ISP's CONTINUE to abuse their power? I don't think that calculation makes sense.
 


That's the way some people seem to think. Cost has been going up annually, just like health insurance has done, but people don't want the Gov't to regulate internet access because there's a misplaced concern that it'll get screwed up. Well, guess what. The Gov't has been regulating landline telephone since at least the 1930's and if it wasn't for that regulation, we'd still only have AT&T/Bell Labs with total control over telephones.
 
I've said it before and I'll say it again. This is bad juju. If the policy is so great, why is it being kept from the public? Why is it kept secret? Why not send it out and and give everyone a 90-day period to review and propose changes or point out accidental mistakes?

The idea of true net neutrality is great. I believe that certain regulation can be done to keep the marketplace fair and to protect consumers. However a bunch of people that can't be voted out of office suddenly claiming oversight over something they didn't build and ramming through a secret 300+ page policy at a session that we can't give feedback on is NOT the way to do it.
 


you're obviously too young to remember - it wasn't till the phone industry was DEREGULATED that rates came down - when it was Ma Bell (ATT) and only ATT across the country, we all had high phone rates - it cost me $2.50 a minute to call europe, now it's 10 cents. We didn't have $29.99 "all you can talk" phone service, now we do - it was de-regulation and competition that brought it down.

you're falling for the logic the idiot liberal elites push that gov't is good - look at the post office and how poor the svc is, or the IRS - wait till you're audited and you find out an idiot that can't add, but has been taught how to screw with you to get you to surrender and just pay the fines hee/she has decided to levy so he/she can maker their audit goal.

wait till they're thru - comcast, verizon, twc will all be merged, " in the interests of the public"

i agree rates are not what i'd like, don't think i'm defending the ISPs, i'm not, but again think for a minute - they gave obamacare the name "Affordable health care" and it's been anything but. This has been historically the trick in gov't - give something a really beneficial sounding name to help sell it, even if that name is the exact opposite of what it will be.

Didn't it bother anybody that the FCC chairman, former CEO of comcast btw, would not release what the proposed rules were BEFORE THE VOTE? call me old fashioned, but i kind of like open debates, but wait, that's right, this is the self proclaimed "most transparent administration" in history. Just saying something doesn't make it so

 
Taking Clyburn's "Who decides how you use the Internet? Who decides what content you can view? " at face value, the answer is "the federal government", since they keep trying with SOPA, PIPA, DMCA, etc.
 
I found Comcast causing issues on the default DNS servers 75.75.75.75 all the time. Using Google DNS 8.8.8.8 resolves any issues. The USA ISP can suck a huge 1. We are being screwed and I'm happy the US Government finally stepped inn!
 
If it doesn't become another tax just as obamacare did, and government doesn't have any control of the content, i like the ideas of it, just not how its being implemented.

However this is very unlikely to be what it says its doing, the government is just taking control over way too many things, security over freedom is not what the constitution says.

We need to limit government, not expand it.

This has nothing to do with people's internet access, it has everything to do with government control, and tax revenue.
 
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