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This is very serious, it will destroy all innovation, and sites like city-data who rely on a fair open internet. The one thing the USA has left to create jobs could be put to a halt due to ISP greed. We must stand up to the FCC before we have no free speech left. The college kids who create small tech companies will be non existent in this new playing field, how could anyone afford to pay premium rates to Comcast or Verizon if they are a start-up? And we are not talking about a few hundred $$.
Most people don’t think about things until it’s too late. I hope the FCC does the right thing here however there are too many lobbyists putting money in pockets….
If I recall the beginning of this mess properly, it isn't the FCC we have to worry about. If I am correct the problem is the net neutrality issue is arising because the power was taken AWAY from the FCC to regulate it. The FCC had enforced net neutrality from the start only allowing ISPs to block/throttle websites on a case by case basis, reviewed by the FCC prior to enacting said ban.
Municipalities should set up their own service. It'd probably be more expensive at first, but it'd be cheaper in the long run and would likely have better service.
Municipalities should set up their own service. It'd probably be more expensive at first, but it'd be cheaper in the long run and would likely have better service.
Municipalities should set up their own service. It'd probably be more expensive at first, but it'd be cheaper in the long run and would likely have better service.
If this were to happen most of the smaller municipalities would just contract out to existing ISPs anyway and people would still be stuck with the crappy ISPs who would do such things without net neutrality anyway.
Personally what I think needs to happen is the FCC just needs to be given the jurisdiction over net neutrality like it was before because it seemed like they were going a good job of keeping everything in line. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
This can end up like the cell phone industry – over charged, poor service, long contracts, and no service representatives to talk with about issues. How wonderful to allow a few large corporations uncontrolled unregulated to own the internet.
I'm wondering why this hasn't gotten a lot more mainstream attention. This is an issue that could affect all of us... who controls information flow and how we receive it.
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