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So. What happens if Net Neutrality loses?

VianiViani
in General
Like, do the victors actually have what they plan on doing listed out? I have encountered a lot of fear mongering (Internet Big Brother), but nothing in-stone by Comcast-kun and Friends. Are they planning on Cable-ifying the internet?

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  • eriophora ziaeriophora zia
    I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god
    It'll likely be a slow creep. Nothing overnight. I would be shocked if sites like Facebook, et cetera, didn't end up with speed deals and such.

    I think "fast" and "slow" lane internet is more likely than it being cable-ified. Favored sites that pay the ISP get better speeds and therefore have a consumer advantage. They will market it as "the fastest Netflix or YouTube experience around!" and pretend it is good for consumers - more speed yay! But actually everything else had just been artificially slowed down.
  • BeeBee
    Pretty much.  They'll sell priority on existing pipes, and try to subtly throttle the shit out of things they don't like.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Bee said:

    Pretty much.  They'll sell priority on existing pipes, and try to subtly throttle the shit out of things they don't like.

    So basically we need to find ways to disguise certain traffic as other traffic.
  • BeeBee
    I mean you already see better traffic if you go through a VPN.  It's just hard to prove it's on purpose.
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    also it's really hard to distinguish content beyond, like, "probably text?" or "probably video?" if you're running through SSL anyways so it probably won't go much beyond "go slower if you're a company that hasn't Paid Its Dues" but since like half the internet is now running on Amazon servers anyways who fucking knows
  • Yarrun XIXYarrun XIX
    Whores! we want "poems that kill."
    Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
    guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
    and take their weapons leaving them dead
    What the hell happened to this timeline anyways?
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Comcast already throttles my Netflix and also makes so it sometimes takes fifteen seconds to load a page.
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