FCC plan would give Internet providers power to decide how you use your internet

[CageTheBengal]

(11-22-2017, 01:37 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: The internet worked just fine before any net neutrality rules.  There was the occasional anti-competitive play or blocking, which has always been handled by existing regulations.

And how can you miss something or have the internet ruined by legislation that barely ever went into effect?

Not true. ISPs wanted to and have controlled how much bandwidth flows based upon population. A family in rural Ohio weren't getting the same speeds as a family in New York despite having the same service and paying the same rate. ISPs also started practicing monitoring customers and sending them warnings just for using torrents and if they tried using a VPN they would disable their account. Torrents themselves aren't bad and are an easier way to share information to people with low bandwidth due to what kind of internet is available to them.

You don't have to wait for it to go into effect to see how it could potentially change the way the internet operates all you have to do is some critical thinking about what the plan is and see the big picture. Have Comcast, Time Warner Spectre and AT&T with their glowing reputations given anybody a reason to trust them? Not that I can find. Comcast owns NBC I don't see how it would be good for the market or consumers if Comcast decided to reduce speeds or cut off access all together to their content to hurt their competitor. Is it 100% sure going to happen? No but that doesn't mean setting up the groundwork for that to happen is a smart move.


Here are some of the rules they want to roll back...

• the FCC requires that ISPs publicly disclose all their network management practices, so that users can make informed decisions when purchasing internet service.
  

         
          We all like to know what we are paying for right? Before this ISPs didn't have to share with you the fact that they could slow your internet down after you hit a set percentage of   data usage or that they might move you the back of the bandwidth flow if you lived in rural areas compared to high traffic areas.

•  No Blocking or Unreasonable Discrimination for Wired Internet
  
  This prevents ISPs from blocking or slowing websites. Why would they want to do this? Maybe because say a company like Comcast might want to discriminate against a competitor like Netflix. Maybe an ISP who happen to be run by people with a political slant and choose which news outlet they want to have a slow connection or a fast one. Considering the first rule I showed would be rolled back we would never know if they were doing that anyways.
  

What do you find appealing about letting ISPs make the rules they get to play by?