In my area, I have access to Comcast and CenturyLink. My current Comcast speed is 200 Mbps. If I wanted CenturyLink, the fastest connection I could get is 5 Mbps for $50 a month. That's not enough bandwidth for my household. If CenturyLink offered service at 50 Mbps, I would switch in a second. But 5 Mbps is literally unusable in my household. Usually someone is streaming video while I play video games online.
The point of your post was to over-read into basic boilerplate statements to the point of conspiratorial thinking.
Were you around and trying to use mobile data prior to net neutrality?
No business is going to be making a statement actively supporting the ability of people to user services like torrents. For obvious reasons.
Mobile data has never had unfettered net neutrality
You don't think throttling speed and capping data is already a flagrant moneygrab? In some ways it's even moreso than this draconian pay-to-access image!
If a service is used to almost exclusively do illegal things, blocking the service isn't irrational. (Same deal as w/ the backpage shutdown.) I'm not agreeing with it, and Comcast sucks, but the fearmongering with this stuff is ridiculous (and ignores the political realities snapcracken just made a thread about.)
The number of people affected by caps and throttling is pretty effectively miniscule.
I got an iPhone about a year after they came out, but don't recall ever having to pay for access to particular websites. That's not to say that it didn't happen with some carriers.....I just never remember tiered access ever being an option.
Once upon a time the trump presidency and how terrible it would be were also regarded as pie in the sky fearmongering.
OMFG they should be sued for this type of thing.
Tons of it is now -it's how a lot of modern downloads are done w/ gaming! If they want to block Game of Thrones from being pirated while allowing legit stuff through, I don't see an ethical issue with that.
I support Net Neutrality. I just don't think we're in a position where it's actually threatened, despite Pai's best attempts to go at it, because the companies are well aware of the political realities and the incoming blue wave and inevitability of a Dem trifecta in the next 2-6 years.
Yep, it is 100% what it will be. It will force businesses to give money to ISPs to be a partner, or else the customer pays for it. If Twitch isn't an official partner of your ISP, and the traffic counts against your cap, either the customer screams at Twitch, which they in turn give money to the ISP, or the consumer just pays for it, and the ISP makes more money.
I don't think that absolutely nothing is going to happen. But at the same time, I don't think there's suddenly going to be $45 nickel-and-dime in surcharges for me just to access the websites I used to.
Nobody is saying thing will get ridiculous all of a sudden. But things will get worse over time if people don't take it seriously and begin to fucking care.
