For all those that say that net neutrality does nothing, and doesn’t matter, I ask this. If net neutrality never made a difference, then why is every ISP pouring a collective billions of dollars into stopping it? Why did they do the same thing about 5 years ago trying to kill it? Why did they do the same AGAIN 10 years ago trying to prevent it becoming law the first time?
If you can’t see how net neutrality affects the internet, then you don’t understand. As a general rule of thumb, if you don’t understand something just look at what big money corporations are doing. You generally want the opposite of that. They are not here to be your friend. They are here to try to take every dollar they can from you.
Sounds like people with voting. They love to tell you how it doesn’t matter, and yet republicans put tons of effort into making it more difficult.
Not every ISP! Where I live there’s an awesome ISP, Sonic, which is pro-NN, and last I heard only offers “best effort” service — which means there’s no throttling your link, no paid tiers; if the fiber and hardware can support 10Gbps symmetric, then that’s what you get.
Sadly, they’re not the norm. And sadly, not offered at my address.
I heard if them 10 years ago, and told them if they ever expand into Ohio, call me. Even at 2am. I WANT to give them my money!..but I can’t…
Great comment. We have the same thing here in Australia with tobacco laws. The most recent change was to ban almost all branding on cigarette packaging. They’re not allowed to use fonts, slogans, logos, or colours, just the brand name in plain text on a standard brown-green box.
The logic being that branding makes a product more attractive to a consumer. Make it duller and less people will buy it.
Tobacco companies fought it tooth and nail. Kept arguing it wouldn’t stop people from smoking. Well then why are you lobbying so hard against it? Obviously the only reason they will ever fight anything is because they think it will hurt their revenue. So whatever they oppose, I support.
Right. Because it is always about money, and if their sales figures weren’t going to go down, then it seems like they’d end up saving a ton of money by completely cutting out their entire advertising budget. No need to even design a logo.
Yeah, the third amendment to the us constitution basically never comes up, but if the military and police demanded we repeal it you bet your ass I’m fighting them on it
I like how the author figured any cord cutting image will do. Ethernet is not the cord the term refers to.
It’s the ISP cutting the Ethernet by opposing net neutrality so they can force you to use their overpriced cable TV service. An inverted mockery of the traditional “cord cutting”, just as the image depicts.
Cable internet needs to opened to alternative ISPs, just like DSL in telcos.
He’s not even the FCC chairman anymore but this news still makes me want to punch Ajit Pai in the face.
