If you like your Internet you can keep your Internet. Period.

POSTED BY: JEWELSTAITEFAN
UPDATED: Monday, March 9, 2015 00:16
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JEWELSTAITEFAN

Saturday, February 28, 2015 3:27 AM

At Obama's directive, the FCC has made the dictated power grab, citing language from the Federal Communications Act of 1934 and the Railroad Act of 1855. Applied to that ungoverned frontier of the Internet that Algore invented.
And the tech weenies think that this removal of their freedoms and liberties is a great thing, they are celebrating.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/fcc-passes-net-neutrality-means-americans-18
5435429.html

On a party-line vote, the supposedly independent from the President 5 Commissioners - of whom none had read the 340 page decree - got their 3 Obamabots to grab this freedom from the American people. And then the Chairman Wheeler made a statement confusing the "Regulation of the First Amendment" with a Right bestowed by the Creator (or Founders), and compared that pesky First Amendment Regulation with their power grab.

I did not see a pertinent thread here yet - did I miss it?

BTW, this confiscation of freedoms and liberties is called by Obamabots and other Libtards "Net Neutrality"

AURAPTOR

Saturday, February 28, 2015 4:34 AM

Resistance is futile.

We're all part of the collective.

JONGSSTRAW

Saturday, February 28, 2015 8:24 AM

So much for "can't stop the signal." If Mud.rasslin.milfs.com shuts down because of this I swear there's gonna be hell to pay!

SIGNYM

Saturday, February 28, 2015 10:15 AM

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The new rules aim to ensure that Internet service providers (ISPs) cannot discriminate between content-makers by blocking or deliberately slowing some content while offering prioritization for those willing or able to pay. Mobile data service for smartphones and tablets also are being placed under the new rules. The directive also includes requirements to protect consumer privacy and to ensure Internet service is available for people with disabilities and in remote areas.

So, basically, you will be able to download FFF.net at the same speed as before, instead of being bumped to a snail's-pace by Netflix.

Is that a bad thing?

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

AURAPTOR

Saturday, February 28, 2015 5:39 PM

It's a bad thing if Netflix has proprietary material it's sending down the line, and this , as much as I do enjoy it, is far less urgent.

And even though I do donate, this is still a 'free' website. Not so with Netflix.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Sunday, March 1, 2015 1:59 AM

I did forget to mention that Verizon issued a press release as reply. The message was in Morse Code, reflecting the 1855 level of government control now in effect.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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The new rules aim to ensure that Internet service providers (ISPs) cannot discriminate between content-makers by blocking or deliberately slowing some content while offering prioritization for those willing or able to pay. Mobile data service for smartphones and tablets also are being placed under the new rules. The directive also includes requirements to protect consumer privacy and to ensure Internet service is available for people with disabilities and in remote areas.
So, basically, you will be able to download FFF.net at the same speed as before, instead of being bumped to a snail's-pace by Netflix.

Is that a bad thing?

Never mind than man behind the curtain.

Nice of you to quote the Obamabot proposition of the problem that doesn't exist.
Now with Obama control over the internet, websites are like radio stations. Websites being required to apply for Obama's big government permission to exist? Websites being required to pay for license to exist? Websites being required to adapt content restrictions - only that content which Obama accepts and agrees with?
It took 50 years for the details of the FCA to be exposed - such as the Unfairness Doctrine - as uncontrolled censorship.
FCC has not issued any information about when, or even if the 340 pages of this new regulation will ever be released to find out what it contains.

Good to know the Imperial Forces and other Libtards have succumbed to the Jedi Mind Tricks of Obama.

SIGNYM

Sunday, March 1, 2015 4:28 AM

"The problem that doesn't exist."?

It most certainly does!

We have known for YEARS that Verizon is gating our traffic. We pay for dsl, our ISP is a third-party who leases Verizon lines, but at times all we get is dial-up speed.

We have called our ISP. One time, they changed our router connections, which helped somewhat. But other times, they refer us to Verizon, and Verizon gives us the same story every time .... you're more than 5000 feet from the central hub, you can't expect faster service.

But YES, WE CAN! Because occasionally, we get blazing fast service... full speed! Up to the level that we're actually paying for!

And then... well, the service drops off. Hubby has run diagnostics, where he repeatedly "pings" a known server and measures the response time and ... darn it, if it doesn't occasionally hit a very steady limit for hours, days, or weeks at a time. Far lower than what is (and has been) technically-achievable by the physical infrastructure... which (btw) doesn't change from day to day and week to week, so that doesn't explain the variation of speed.

WE know that we're being gated, I'm pretty sure our dsl provider knows we're being gated, but what can we do??? Go to another phone system??? Go to Time Warner cable? Wireless? (The various cell services that we've tried in our very urban area suck. We rarely get good signal in our house/ on our block.)

As far as "investment" is concerned.... Verizon has not put a penny into infrastructure. The FIOS lines that they STARTED to install (eight years ago) are still unfinished.

All we're doing is paying monopoly prices for horrible service.

So fuck 'em. I don't care if they get their ass kicked from here to eternity. Hang 'em high, as far as I'm concerned.

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

AURAPTOR

Sunday, March 1, 2015 6:25 AM

To quote Peter Parker...I missed the part where that's my problem.

SIGNYM

Sunday, March 1, 2015 6:31 AM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

To quote Peter Parker...I missed the part where that's my problem.

Don't politically support the telecom monopoly pigs.

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

AURAPTOR

Sunday, March 1, 2015 6:46 AM

Better them than the Imperial Federal Govt.

Alliance lovin' pigs, I got no use for 'em.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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