What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video
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I understand what you are saying. Since NN went into effect in 2015 were there any cases of ISPs throttling content before 2015, causing for the need of NN to be put in place? I don't trust the government to be the watchdog, that honestly is my biggest beef with NN. Just wait till the next time power shifts to the other side then NN will be back. Who is to say that the government wouldn't use NN to shutdown opposition on the net? Trust me I think both parties are corrupt in America, I don't think either one puts the citizens first, they put party first and quite frankly I really don't see much difference between the two parties. I understand your concern and it needs to be addressed, I am always afraid to give more power to the government. I think we are dancing around the issue here, the issue is the fact that ISPs are owned or own themselves content makers for example Comcast owns NBCUniversal. Charter Internet in my area sells Charter Cable TV. If the ISPs just did ISP wouldn't that address a lot of the issues. If ISPs were just truly ISPs then they wouldn't have an incentive to throttle content. I am not against an open and free internet. I am just not sure NN was the best way to go about it. I really think NN was more of taking a sledgehammer to fix something when we needed something more like a surgeon and a scalpel.
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@penguinwrangler said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
I understand what you are saying. Since NN went into effect in 2015 were there any cases of ISPs throttling content before 2015, causing for the need of NN to be put in place?
There are numerous cases of ISPs throttling and only allowing content of their choosing on their networks.
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@dustinb3403 said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@penguinwrangler said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
I understand what you are saying. Since NN went into effect in 2015 were there any cases of ISPs throttling content before 2015, causing for the need of NN to be put in place?
There are numerous cases of ISPs throttling and only allowing content of their choosing on their networks.
Okay can you point me to one? Not trying to be sarcastic. I really want to see these examples.
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http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/06/technology/verizon_blocks_google_wallet/index.htm
There is one such example. Even if you were a good customer of Verizon's you literally couldn't use a service that was built into the devices you wanted. I'll get a more comprehensive list.
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I am not trying to be mean. I have been sick for a week now and I am just really grumpy. I apologize if anything I type today seems nasty. I am not trying to be.
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@penguinwrangler Here is a more complete list.
https://www.freepress.net/blog/2017/04/25/net-neutrality-violations-brief-history
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@dustinb3403 said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/06/technology/verizon_blocks_google_wallet/index.htm
There is one such example. Even if you were a good customer of Verizon's you literally couldn't use a service that was built into the devices you wanted. I'll get a more comprehensive list.
To me that would be an issue for the FTC to take up not the FCC. The FTC mission statement is "Working to protect consumers by preventing anticompetitive, deceptive, and unfair business practices, enhancing informed consumer choice and public understanding of the competitive process, and accomplishing this without unduly burdening legitimate business activity." To me what Verizon was doing was very anticompetitive. I always ask myself whenever I see someone saying we need this new law, hold on do we have something that already covers this, or just needs to be tweaked to cover the issue.
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@penguinwrangler said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@dustinb3403 said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/06/technology/verizon_blocks_google_wallet/index.htm
There is one such example. Even if you were a good customer of Verizon's you literally couldn't use a service that was built into the devices you wanted. I'll get a more comprehensive list.
To me that would be an issue for the FTC to take up not the FCC. The FTC mission statement is "Working to protect consumers by preventing anticompetitive, deceptive, and unfair business practices, enhancing informed consumer choice and public understanding of the competitive process, and accomplishing this without unduly burdening legitimate business activity." To me what Verizon was doing was very anticompetitive. I always ask myself whenever I see someone saying we need this new law, hold on do we have something that already covers this, or just needs to be tweaked to cover the issue.
The issue is that the FTC has no authority at all to do anything in these cases, until people / businesses are harmed. The FCC had the authority to prevent these abuses by requiring service providers such as Verizon to not do these kinds of things at all.
To equate all packets the same.
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@penguinwrangler said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@dustinb3403 said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/06/technology/verizon_blocks_google_wallet/index.htm
There is one such example. Even if you were a good customer of Verizon's you literally couldn't use a service that was built into the devices you wanted. I'll get a more comprehensive list.
To me that would be an issue for the FTC to take up not the FCC. The FTC mission statement is "Working to protect consumers by preventing anticompetitive, deceptive, and unfair business practices, enhancing informed consumer choice and public understanding of the competitive process, and accomplishing this without unduly burdening legitimate business activity." To me what Verizon was doing was very anticompetitive. I always ask myself whenever I see someone saying we need this new law, hold on do we have something that already covers this, or just needs to be tweaked to cover the issue.
Problem is, we don't care how competitive it is, that's a minor issue. It's the greater issue that the FCC is supposed to protect us from that is the issue. Access to information and resources shouldn't be seen as a consumer issue, it should be seen as a freedom issue.
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@penguinwrangler said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
I don't trust the government to be the watchdog, that honestly is my biggest beef with NN.
Here is the problem, though.. the government is the watchdog. There is no other choice. There's no alternative. So there are two things we can do... task and empower the government with doing it, or let them get away without having to do it.
So the question isn't do you want government or not, but do you want protection or not.
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@scottalanmiller The problem is I don't trust the government to be an impartial watchdog.
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@penguinwrangler said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@scottalanmiller The problem is I don't trust the government to be an impartial watchdog.
But you trust the ISP's to not screw you over the moment they have the chance more than you trust the government?
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@penguinwrangler said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@scottalanmiller The problem is I don't trust the government to be an impartial watchdog.
But is that not better than no watchdog at all?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@penguinwrangler said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@scottalanmiller The problem is I don't trust the government to be an impartial watchdog.
But is that not better than no watchdog at all?
The problem is that the watchdog can get confused as to who it is supposed to be watching.
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@penguinwrangler said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@scottalanmiller The problem is I don't trust the government to be an impartial watchdog.
Another anti NN person with a total misunderstanding of the issue.
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@dafyre said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@scottalanmiller said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@penguinwrangler said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@scottalanmiller The problem is I don't trust the government to be an impartial watchdog.
But is that not better than no watchdog at all?
The problem is that the watchdog can get confused as to who it is supposed to be watching.
Still remains, give the options.... a watchdog you don't trust, or just letting the inmates take over, which do you prefer?
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@dafyre Seriously, another one. Ok, phone companies have been under Title II for nearly a century. Where is the rampant censorship from the FCC on your phone calls? Show me one example of the FCC interfering with your phone calls maliciously in the last century. There is none, just like classifiying ISPs Title II would lead to none.
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And since these kinds of laws don't give any power to censor or spy.... one has to assume that if the gov't is going to do it with NN or similar in place, that they will do it without them in place.
Basically, if we trust them to be a watchdog, great. If we don't trust them to be the watchdog, then whether we let them be or not, they are going to do what they are going to do.
We aren't changing what a corrupt government CAN do, we are simply creating a law to make it accountable for what it MUST do.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
And since these kinds of laws don't give any power to censor or spy.... one has to assume that if the gov't is going to do it with NN or similar in place, that they will do it without them in place.
Basically, if we trust them to be a watchdog, great. If we don't trust them to be the watchdog, then whether we let them be or not, they are going to do what they are going to do.
We aren't changing what a corrupt government CAN do, we are simply creating a law to make it accountable for what it MUST do.
But NN wasn't to hold the government accountable. It was to hold the corporations accountable. Our 1st amendment rights by the constitution is to hold the government at bay, but we see how well that is holding up.
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@momurda said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video:
@dafyre Seriously, another one. Ok, phone companies have been under Title II for nearly a century. Where is the rampant censorship from the FCC on your phone calls? Show me one example of the FCC interfering with your phone calls maliciously in the last century. There is none, just like classifiying ISPs Title II would lead to none.
That (or something similar to it) was mentioned by the "fathers of the internet" in that a user who goes to google.com no more chooses if the content is delivered across an individual network or CDN, they simply want to go to google.com.
Just like a person who calls a telephone number from their home phone has no choice in the path to getting their call to the number they want.
