Net Neutraility Dead in the US

[cardgame]

C'mon, guys! Laissez-faire policy worked brilliantly in the 19th century!

 

[Kaitzilla]

Wow, what's this mean for Netflix and their $9.99 per month deal?

I heard they are 1/3rd of internet bandwidth usage in the USA.

 

[Farm Boy]

If I can only apply for a wide slew of jobs via the internet, if many people can only efficiently contact a wide variety of their acquaintances via the internet, if land-line services are plummeting, if letter-writing is a dying art, if newspaper subscriptions are in the toilet, and especially if your car and thermostat start emailing you regularly, it's well past time for ISPs to be common carriers.

 

[Antilogic]

Guys, guys, Time Warner, AT&T and Comcast all promised not to do anything bad. That's good enough for me!

Did anyone else feel a bit queasy when they saw phrases like "innovative choices" over and over again?

If I can only apply for a wide slew of jobs via the internet, if many people can only efficiently contact a wide variety of their acquaintances via the internet, if land-line services are plummeting, if letter-writing is a dying art, if newspaper subscriptions are in the toilet, and especially if your car and thermostat start emailing you regularly, it's well past time for ISPs to be common carriers.

A thousand times this. I'd go as far as to call it common and vital national infrastructure.

 

[Zelig]

Wow, what's this mean for Netflix and their $9.99 per month deal?

I heard they are 1/3rd of internet bandwidth usage in the USA.

I'm guessing not much.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/22/5...ustomer-action-if-isps-violate-net-neutrality

Netflix is probably one of the few companies (along with Google, Facebook and maybe Wikipedia, off the top of my head) who could agitate consumers enough to get real action, like Wiki and friends did with SOPA.

Bigger problem with Netflix long-term is that $10/m isn't sustainable for the current amount of new content if people are cutting their tv subscriptions - even if everyone were to get Netflix subscriptions, the total revenue would be much lower than what TV makes now.