Comments on: Court Throws Net Neutrality Overboard, But Comcast Won’t Ban Torrents

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:17:00 +0000

Mmmm…. doughnut. ;-)

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:15:00 +0000

They’re too busy protesting the firing of homophobic retards like Phil Robertson to care about real issues.

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:14:00 +0000

It’ll go unopposed because morons in Murca are too busy giving a rat’s tail about who’s screwing who on Real Housewives this week. They’ll happily fork over grotesque fees to their cable provider because of the whole FOMO epidemic. Wouldn’t want to miss Kimye’s televised wedding or Lena Dumass’s latest romp of nude exhibitionism.

Is there ANY WAY the E.U. can impose sanctions on US???

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:10:00 +0000

Maybe if Justine Beaver gets deported and barred from Internet usage, people will wake up and care.

Then again, the Lardassians and Smiley Virus haven’t been involved in a plane crash, so who knows…

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:09:00 +0000

This must have something to do with the fact that Comcast is also a media company. It owns NBC and Universal. Piracy aside, I shudder to think of Comcast blocking access to ABC, CBS and Fox because those are competing networks. I mean, I wouldn’t mind losing Fox News, but Family Guy? Noooooo…

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:04:00 +0000

Agreed, especially since the Internet is global. The way these ISPs are making it sound, if I visit a site with servers headquartered outside the U.S., I should have to pay long distance as though I was calling them. Worse would be if I visit a site with servers outside of my state. Which is absolutely ridiculous but that seems like the idea. To treat internet traffic like phone calls, a moot point also when you consider services like Vonage that allow people to make international calls at the same standard rate as domestic.

Either that or they’ll charge for “packages” like with cable, where you pay extra for access to more channels, or channels grouped by similar content (i.e. news networks, sports networks, movies, etc.). AFAIK there are only about 1,000 cable-channel numbers versus billions if not trillions of web pages. Jesus H. Chrysler, can you imagine how much it would cost for full access to everything indexed on Google?!?

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 21:58:00 +0000

Internet should become a public utility, then, and private companies should get out of the game. Seeing as it was originally developed by the DoD, why shouldn’t it be a taxpayer-funded service like the physical “superhighways” are? Internet is part of national infrastructure. I don’t have to pay more money to drive on suburban roads versus rural roads versus the 405, or California roads versus Wyoming roads, or high-traffic rush hour versus the overnight hours when nobody’s out and about. Why should I therefore have to pay more money to “drive on” Twitter (largely text-based, less bandwidth) versus YouTube (video, therefore more bandwidth)? Or more money for a high-traffic site like HuffPost or Yahoo versus some obscure nobody’s website about quinoa?

Tax dollars went to build the Internet in 1970. Tax dollars went to build the cell phone towers. We the people should be reaping the full, unencumbered rewards of what our tax dollars sowed, not corporate executives at VZ and Comcast. Obama should send a message to these ISPs about who really owns the Internet: “YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT.”

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 21:46:00 +0000

Tech savvy people and people who can afford higher fees and special equipment. This leaves the rest of us SOL.

Oh well, glad I didn’t get rid of my old Beta tapes now that frickin’ YouTube is going to be exorbitantly unaffordable.

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