http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/technology/fcc-new-net-neutrality-rules.html?_r=3
SO. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said some crap about "fast lane" policies, which basically means Net Neutrality is boned. NN, in a nutshell, is an ISP has to give everyone the same deal like a phone company instead of charging for content like a cable package. If you know anything at all about how the Internet works, you know that it would be entirely ridiculous to do the latter as the ISPs don't actually pay for the content or anything like a cable company does.
tl;dr, former ISP lobbyist wants to block your access to Netflix.
This is a pretty cool article too:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/art...-Sellout-A-Wakeup-Call-And-A-Slap-In-The-Face
In my personal opinion, I feel like if this goes through, Google will step up its Fiber game and offer the same rate for the same access to everyone. They will then proceed to snatch up all of Comwarner's customers and get a functional vertical monopoly on the entire goddamn Internet.
SO. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said some crap about "fast lane" policies, which basically means Net Neutrality is boned. NN, in a nutshell, is an ISP has to give everyone the same deal like a phone company instead of charging for content like a cable package. If you know anything at all about how the Internet works, you know that it would be entirely ridiculous to do the latter as the ISPs don't actually pay for the content or anything like a cable company does.
tl;dr, former ISP lobbyist wants to block your access to Netflix.
This is a pretty cool article too:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/art...-Sellout-A-Wakeup-Call-And-A-Slap-In-The-Face
In my personal opinion, I feel like if this goes through, Google will step up its Fiber game and offer the same rate for the same access to everyone. They will then proceed to snatch up all of Comwarner's customers and get a functional vertical monopoly on the entire goddamn Internet.