[l56] Net neutrality dies

Posted by leemcd56 on April 8, 2010, 1:59 p.m.

Well guys it seems that net neutrality is once again under immense fire in the United States. Lobbyists such as Comcast, AT&T, Krueger, and Verizon intend to strangle money out of its subscribers and limit things such as speed for uploading/downloading large files, blocking competition, preventing certain sites from opening while pushing sites in their favor, and among other things monitor data that passes through their servers–i.e., your personal information. The FCC was denied hands-down on the 7th of April, 2010 , by a court ruling, the right to prevent such big companies from impeding on users' rights and private data. Therefore net neutrality had officially died. One can only imagine what will happen next but the battle still is not over because the FCC is pissed off now more than ever.

Pause for a second. The FCC? Fighting for United States citizens' rights? Ha, since when? Sure, they may limit what you can see on TV and on the radio, and even strike an episode of Family Guy that bashed them to the ground but when it comes to the Internet all hell breaks loose. Kind of like, "This is MY house bitch! TITS OR GTFO."–except I'm pretty sure no one wants to see the man-tits of Comcast CEO Brian L. Roberts.

Continuing, the fight is not over and you can show the FCC and the Supreme Court that you do give a rat's ass about net neutrality and make sure your private STAYS private. One of the largest activist groups, http://savetheinternet.com is your best bet. If you do not support net neutrality, I can only say one thing:

I'm pretty sure somehow this is going to effect international communications as well as most web sites on the internet are centralized in the United States and some communications companies root through US corporations.

Comments

Polystyrene Man 14 years, 8 months ago
Ferret 14 years, 8 months ago

wow. I am joining as we speak.

Alert Games 14 years, 8 months ago

Yeah I heard about this.

I think theres not much the court could have done. The businesses do need to be able to control the bandwidth (ATT iPhone, anyone?)

HOWEVER, the FCC still needs to have control over the fairness. thats what i think. i dont want stuff like e.g. 64digits to go down because its hosted on godaddy, which is not supported on comcast very much, etc.

and i hate comcast, cause theyre the best at sucking the most out of their customers.