What the web COULD look like without Net Neutrality

pretty scary stuff

terrifying

This frightens me beyond all inconceivable recognition. I shudder to think what the net would be if it were controlled by the telecommunication companies...

What the heck? Are you people slow? Net Neutrality wouldn't let the government "regulate" the internet, the purpose is to prevent the ISPs from giving traffic priority on the networks. For example, without net neutrality comcast could decide to throttle all VOIPs except their own so you either have to pay for theirs or pay extra to use vonage with reasonable quality. Or maybe Fox wants to 'sponsor' your connection so Fox.com loads at normal speed but CNN is so slow it would be faster to use dialup. Comcast already does this with Bittorrent Traffic despite the many legitimate uses for it. More recently they have been doing this with all uploads, making it virtually impossible to say upload a video to Youtube. Within the past week or so the FCC lost its court case against them for this practice. The court ruled the FCC's net neutrality policies outside of their mandate so there is in fact no longer anything stopping the ISPs from implementing a policy like this or even from completely blocking access to any sites they want to. How long to you think it will take for them to start making their competitor's websites antagonizingly slow? Net Neutrality is not about starting Government censorship its about stopping corporate censorship.

little bit of both dude -

look at the "great austrilian firewall" for government censorship then look at canada's rogers isp for corporate censorship.

You got it right there sapereaud, slow as dial up baby! Regulating seems to
have this evil connotation to some people, yet the absents of regulation in
effect regulates against one group and for another.

The last thing we need is for a tiered internet, one that limits innovation
and encourages the same old way of doing things. Where big money wins, and
the little guy loses.

The biggest innovations come out of left field, not from the incumbents, and
network shaping or priority would hurt that innovation immensely.

ps. We in North America should be thanking our lucky stars that the Chinese
government is such a fan of censorship and network control. Talk about
hurting their development and innovation. A neutral internet (like the
neutral power grid and neutral road ways that our countries have been built
on) is one of the biggest assets we have.

Protect it. http://www.freethenet.ca

Obviously it doesn't look like this so why the F*** are you worried about it? Not only that, but why the F*** are you trying to get the government involved in it? The government has absolutely NO business being involved in the internet. The internet is the only medium that remains relatively untouched by the government, free from the FCC, free from taxes, free from censorship, and free from regulation. And YOU and people like YOU are trying to ruin this.

Please stop trying to cause problems by wanting to prevent problems that aren't even problems.

Your right except the government and the FCC has controlled the internet since its inception and has just recently let go most of its control. They have been preventing corporations from dictating the flow of information. And we should consider what could happen as that is our responsibility as citizens and voters. if you don't like it, move to a place were no one cares about you and what you have to say then you don't have to worry about it.

"Your right except the government and the FCC has controlled the internet since its inception and has just recently let go most of its control. "

Stop pulling shit out of your ass. This is completely made up therefore your entire argument is completely null.

"if you don't like it, move to a place were no one cares about you and what you have to say then you don't have to worry about it."

Great argument, you sound like a 3rd grader.

Now that's the sort of honest in your face debate I'm talking about.

Well said sir.

I was either drunk or.... when I replied to the comment above. I'm certain that after the "the well said sir" I meant to put in a sarcastic and or snarky comment in reply to "someone who reads". So let me try this again.

Well said sir. Thank you for putting down Glenn Beck's latest book for long enough to leave that insightful comment.

Sarah Palin would be proud.

Obviously it doesn't look like this so why the F*** are you worried about it? Not only that, but why the F*** are you trying to get the government involved in it? The government has absolutely NO business being involved in the internet. The internet is the only medium that remains relatively untouched by the government, free from the FCC, free from taxes, free from censorship, and free from regulation. And YOU and people like YOU are trying to ruin this.

Please stop trying to cause problems by wanting to prevent problems that aren't even problems.

Yup, add those all together, and that's about *the monthly fee* I've paid for internet for the past year.

Good point / yikes!

Yup, add those all together, and that's about what I've paid for internet for the past year.

If they would like to charge more to have access to certain web sites, wouldn't that just kill off the bigger websites and allow smaller websites to grow?

Yeah because the internet has been around for how long and this isnt at all what it looks like.

Good point Joe, though i think you miss the point.

This is a gross exaggeration of what could happen, but the reality of
current regulations is that a tiered internet is a real possibility.

That's not good for anyone, except maybe Comcast and some entertainment
executives.

Fuck net neutrality

Oh such words of wisdom.

Let me guess, you're an executive at one of the telecom co's and you're just trying to vent your frustration.

I'll allow it. Thanks for the insight. :S

The FCC is already doing a fine job of keeping the "net neutral".
Why do we need more legislation to fix something that isn't broken?
Is there any evidence out there that supports the above image?

The FCC isn't doing a good job of keeping the net neutral. Austrillia has a giant firewall that keeps their people from seeing what their goernement deems as "questionable content" that's not neutrality !!!

oh, and canada's internet is filtered by their isps... and all encrypted traffic is throttled... again, not neutral.

No evidence of the above actually happening, I think it shows the awful potential of a two tiered internet. The FCC has stepped up with some positive decision in recent months to ensure that you and I have the same access to reading/publishing and sharing that a big company would have.

plus I'm sure you all would enjoy being charged by the minute when you use the internet. I bet that would put some business under. Net neutrality will only kill one of the greatest innovations not make it better. Which is what always happens when we let govt get involved in areas they don't belong

Anything regulated by govt would become useless

Actually the US Government did control a big chunk of the internet and just recently "gave up" its "control" to ICANN. This is going to happen if the Government doesn't put new laws into place to take over where to old ones that expired. Laws to protect the consumers rights from the ISP. The above image is what will happen if the Government let the ISPs do what they want or if they are able to get laws past saying they can do what they want.

It would be like paying for cable!!

More like getting commercials with cable....

It could happen, it would just SUCK. And defeat the original purpose.

What the internet would look like without Net Neutrality http://bit.ly/3DBBGU #netneutrality

No!!!

You know, the EU is seriously considering something like this

That is a sad thing to hear man. From what I've read, there is a lot to be
upset over, especially in the UK.

Where should we look for more info on that?

This gives me the willies. A day we hope never comes. William Wallace screamed it best, "Freeeeedommmmm!"

Dear John McCain and supporters of his Net Neutrality bill,

*This* is why Net Neutrality is important.

Love,
Jason

Dear John McCain,
This is why Net Neutrality is important.

Love,
Jason