shrekislove_ · 6 years ago
I'm not American(I'm assuming it's an American based topic) can you explain it to me?
timebender25 · 6 years ago
US is trying to take away the free internet and replace it with an EA designed internet.
Everything will cost money. Every site, every click.
shrekislove_ · 6 years ago
So even using funsubstance?
So this isn't like using Mobile data? Where you use your own data to get online?
timebender25 · 6 years ago
Yes.
timebender25 · 6 years ago
They can throttle EVERYTHING.
If you're not paying, they can cut access to any site, and slow down the rest.
shrekislove_ · 6 years ago
I shall do my research on this! With everything else going on(Facebook stuff) this issue hasn't been made public in the world
timebender25 · 6 years ago
It was made public months ago. It's died down already, even if it hasn't settled.
deleted · 6 years ago
What websites aren't responding?
guest_ · 6 years ago
@shrekislove- a less biased explaination is that net neutrality is the concept that all data on the internet must be treated equally by service providers. That means that they can’t charge different rates for different sites or offer faster or slower speeds to certain sites. In an example: net neutrality means that if Microsoft also owns yours internet provider they can’t block or slow access to apple web sites, or that your service provider can’t decide that they will charge an additional fee for you to use YouTube, or access a certain site when that site has high traffic. They must charge a flat fee for whatever data is used regardless of the type, and allow all data to pass equally. The US government ruled providers do not have to do this and so they will be able to block, slow, speed up, or charge money for certain sites and types of data as they like.
famousone · 6 years ago
People are trying to scare the masses into handing control of the internet to the government
timebender25 · 6 years ago
Well I'm certainly scared.
But I'm not going to let it sway my decision.
unicycle · 6 years ago
Isn't net neutrality being repealed? So the government already had control of the internet and everything was fine?
guest_ · 6 years ago
Net neutrality repeal means that there is no more neutrality and you can be blocked, throttled, or charged differently for different data. The repeal doesn’t go into effect until April 23rd unless law suits stop it. The government does not now nor has it (effectively) ever had control of the internet beyond compliance and aid of entities and loose regulations. Private corporations own most of the physical networks and servers that make the public internet, and most of the data transmitted over the internet. We likely won’t see the full consequences of the repeal for months or years after. Due to how public and hot button the issue was companies are unlikely to make sweeping changes while the law is still very new. They’ll likely ease people in slowly and test the waters to figure out the best profit models and gradually gain acceptance to changes.
unicycle · 6 years ago
Right. What I'm saying is that the FCC has repealed the Open Internet regulations that protected net neutrality. The government had some control of the internet, by regulating the service providers to ensure open access. Now it seems like many people want this issue back in the hands of the government. So people don't want to give the government more control over the internet than it already had before the repeal. From my view it's not about what famousone was saying, that people want the government to control the internet, but rather to just go back to what it was before. Granted, I'm not American so I may not have a complete understanding.
shrekislove_ · 6 years ago
@guest_ thanks for the explanation! I read up on it, and it does seem like a horrid idea. Unless your ISP compensate the additional charges by lowering your monthly fee.
So from my understanding, they'll charge you an actual fee for using things like YouTube, instagram and Facebook?(Will they charge a flat monthly rate or an amount depending on how often it is used?) The apps and sites that are technically free, they'll have an additional charge put through. So @guest_ you've remained non-biased on the topic, so can you tell me what the 'benefits' of this would be? From the consumer's point of view?