FCC Approves Net Neutrality

[Ridge]

Ah, fixing a problem that didnt exist.

It definitely existed. http://jointhefastlane.com/

[Ridge]

*NSFW*

but funny as hell...

Mostly because it's true.

The barely trained installer thing hit hard. I work for an ISP, and I work with those guys. Some of them can't spell the name of our company. Some have trouble remembering how to spell their name.

[DAL357]

Burton Folsom. An excellent book all around. Here's a lecture he gave on the subject (a little over an hour ... but quicker than reading the book).

Cool, thanks!

[davsel]

[Gman]

Whatever the question, more government is usually not the answer. It certainly doesn't take 300 pages to tell ISPs to play fair.

China has government regulated Internet. The .gov getting involved is a slippery slope.

Sent from my electronic leash.

[68Charger]

It definitely existed. http://jointhefastlane.com/

I'm going to go ahead and call that BS marketing and a proxy caching service...
It looks to me that they're not giving you priority access to places like youtube.com and foxnews.com,etc... they have "videotube.com" and "foxynews.com"

so it looks to me like they cache content from websites on their own premium servers, and serve it up to their customers at premium prices.
There are lots of factors that can affect your speed to download anything- and it's the lowest common denominator (the bottleneck) when Millions of people hit the same server farm at say foxnews.com after a big news event occurs, their servers are heavily utilized, or their internet connection gets overloaded...

So I'd say the link you provided is free market at work, not a provider deciding what content is at work, unless you can prove that jointhefastlane is a subsidiary of a core internet provider...

[68Charger]

Whatever the question, more government is usually not the answer. It certainly doesn't take 300 pages to tell ISPs to play fair.

China has government regulated Internet. The .gov getting involved is a slippery slope.

Sent from my electronic leash.

Congratulations! we just graduated to the standards created by the "People's republic of China"!!
but we still can't buy their ammo...

[Rabid]

I did not see this come up already so for a little better understanding on the issue:
1. The reason you get a much better deal on your internet when you include a phone line is because a land line phone is under section 2 and these companies get government subsidies (tax dollars) on it.
2. These companies have been subsidized to upgrade their networks so even rural areas could have fiber optic internet by now, again that is millions of tax payers dollars, but they have not. The FCC has brought at least one of these companies to court (IIRR its two). The judge pretty much said we can not do anything if these companies pocket the tax payers money under section 1 like they currently are but rather under section 2 you would have a viable case.
3. The government made these oligopolies by giving these companies our hard earned money on promises they did not fulfill and still have a 90 something percent profit margin on top of that.
4. The government has not allowed a free market, look up what happened to Falcon Broadband in the springs if you do not believe me.

How does the government fix this problem they created? I have no idea but i have provided some facts and it deserves as much attention, if not more because it is our tax dollars, as the current ammo ban that looms over us does.

[clublights]

*NSFW*

but funny as hell...

Mostly because it's true.

Along those same lines...

also NSFW

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c38...-t-give-a-f-ck