Re: Net Neutrality

by **Other Teams Pursuing That** Thu 25 Jan 2018 - 12:59

Offended by a Burger King commercial. Some life people live.

by Da Mayor Thu 25 Jan 2018 - 13:00

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:Who the fuck would get offended by this?

Prob the same people who wanted LAKS gone.

by **DWags** Thu 25 Jan 2018 - 13:09

LooseGoose wrote:
Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:Who the fuck would get offended by this?

It seems the Libertarians are.

Having Failed at Making Edible Burgers, Burger King Tries To Explain Net Neutrality The second-rate fast-food giant gets basic internet protocols wrong.

And keep in mind that the now-defunct Federal Communications Communications' Net Neutrality rules were memorably and usefully defined by economist Thomas W. Hazlett as government regulation of ISPs' business models and a way of giving a new mission to an agency whose reason for being is less and less clear and whose history is not filled with glory.

The joke in the video is that customers must pay $26 to get a Whopper "hyperfast." If they go with the standard price, it takes forever. Because you know, Net Neutrality rules that were formalized in 2015 somehow magically altered the way internet service providers (ISPs) delivered data to their customers. Before 2015, the internet was a morass of shakedown artists who forced all of us to pay extra for this or that site. And now that Net Neutrality has been repealed, the 'net has reverted to a Hobbesian world in which access is nasty, brutish, and metered.

Oh wait, in fact, the average speed and number of internet connections kept growing regardless of the regulatory regime. The FCC's most recent Internet Access Services Report counted 104 million fixed internet connections, a new high. That number doesn't count mobile or satellite connections. Eighty percent of census tracts had at three or more ISPs offering connections of 10 Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps upstream and another 17 percent had two ISPs doing the same (figure 4). So 97 percent of America can go elsewhere when it comes to basic internet connections that allow the sort of streaming, surfing, and gaming we want.

Current FCC head Ajit Pai once called Net Neutrality "a solution that won't work to a problem that doesn't exist." The new Burger King vid helps prove that point.

Poor Bob, just the kind of governing he admires.

Libertarians? Net Neutrality - Page 6 502811600

Quick fact check. Man, you read some crazy ass shit.

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by Guest Thu 25 Jan 2018 - 13:19

Noted that you offered no refutation of his point.

I have no idea where you got that screed against them....got a link?

by **Rocinante** Thu 25 Jan 2018 - 13:20

Maybe this has been discussed earlier in the thread, but the senate is one vote away from being able to overturn the FCC ruling, so if you have a republican senator, writing him/her and asking them to support the effort couldn't hurt.

Sorry for asking people to do things.

by **Other Teams Pursuing That** Thu 25 Jan 2018 - 13:23

Rocinante wrote:Maybe this has been discussed earlier in the thread, but the senate is one vote away from being able to overturn the FCC ruling, so if you have a republican senator, writing him/her and asking them to support the effort couldn't hurt.

Sorry for asking people to do things.

by Guest Thu 25 Jan 2018 - 14:00

DWags wrote:Libertarians? Quick fact check. Man, you read some crazy ass shit.

More "crazy ass shit".

America's Border Patrol Behave Like Monsters: Activist Arrested Hours After Aid Group Released Video Showing Agents Dumping Out Life-Saving Water [UPDATED]

Trump and GOP Nativists Are Preparing to Screw Dreamers

The Internet Makes Life Better and Safer for Sex Workers. Obviously.

How the Government Is Gutting the Right to Trial by Jury

Poll Commissioned by Pot Prohibitionists Shows How Unpopular Pot Prohibition Is A survey by an anti-marijuana group finds that only 16 percent of Americans support the current federal policy.

Also they've been leading the fight against Civil Forfeiture for years.....sometime you might want to visit and read a site rather than take some internet numbnut's word for what it's about.

by **Rocinante** Thu 25 Jan 2018 - 14:33

That has nothing to do with net neutrality Goose. Don’t make this a you vs everyone else thing and get it torpedoed.

by **Watch Out Pylon!** Thu 25 Jan 2018 - 14:35

LooseGoose wrote:
DWags wrote:Libertarians? Quick fact check. Man, you read some crazy ass shit.

More "crazy ass shit".

America's Border Patrol Behave Like Monsters: Activist Arrested Hours After Aid Group Released Video Showing Agents Dumping Out Life-Saving Water [UPDATED]

Trump and GOP Nativists Are Preparing to Screw Dreamers

The Internet Makes Life Better and Safer for Sex Workers. Obviously.

How the Government Is Gutting the Right to Trial by Jury

Poll Commissioned by Pot Prohibitionists Shows How Unpopular Pot Prohibition Is A survey by an anti-marijuana group finds that only 16 percent of Americans support the current federal policy.

Also they've been leading the fight against Civil Forfeiture for years.....sometime you might want to visit and read a site rather than take some internet numbnut's word for what it's about.

I'm pretty sure most people don't have enough time to vet the wackadoo websites you visit Goose.

by **Robert J Sakimano** Thu 25 Jan 2018 - 14:53

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:Offended by a Burger King commercial. Some life people live.

some folks walk around waiting on things to be offended by.

When you get outraged when someone says "Happy Holidays" or at a cup at Starbucks, you probably lead a pretty sad life.

The are fun to chuckle at, though.

by **DWags** Sat 27 Jan 2018 - 11:09

gHost Spartan wrote:Burger King takes on Net Neutrality and it's hilarious

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/burger-king-explains-net-neutrality?link_id=1&can_id=0dcbe6c55a7dad8a42648ca69ce8e019&source=email-you-need-to-watch-this-6&email_referrer=email_292473&email_subject=you-need-to-watch-this

Groundhog Day?

by SawGreen Sat 27 Jan 2018 - 14:29

So, I live in the Boonies and the best internet that I can get is WiFi (which isn't too bad). About 2 weeks after NN went in the can, I started seeing a very noticeable preference to streamed content. The most obvious is opening YouTube. I can watch a video with nothing but the video showing...no text or icons for other videos, or ads or nothing. Same deal with Netflix. I can watch Netflix all day long, but can't open a Google home page for minutes as long as Netflix is streaming.

The company is coming out next week to upgrade all of our equipment, so the jury is still out, but doesn't this smell like throttling?

by **Heat Miser** Tue 18 Aug 2020 - 16:16

America’s Terrible Internet Is Making Quarantine Worse

Why millions of students still can’t get online

by **Jake from State Farm** Tue 18 Aug 2020 - 19:45

Heat Miser wrote:America’s Terrible Internet Is Making Quarantine Worse

Why millions of students still can’t get online

Hopefully Elon Musk and Starlink fix it. It's already in beta testing in Washington state. Speeds are running up to 60 Mbps, way faster than the barely dsl speeds most of the rural internet connections are.

by **Heat Miser** Mon 17 May 2021 - 9:25

ISPs Funded 8.5 Million Fake Comments Opposing Net Neutrality

The secret campaign, backed by major broadband companies, used real people’s names without their consent.

by **Floyd Robertson** Mon 17 May 2021 - 13:36

Heat Miser wrote:ISPs Funded 8.5 Million Fake Comments Opposing Net Neutrality

The secret campaign, backed by major broadband companies, used real people’s names without their consent.

Everyone who is shocked by this raise your hands.

Just what I thought, I don't see any raised hands.

by **tGreenWay** Mon 17 May 2021 - 14:52

I’d love to know if them sonsabitches used my names, both real and fake.

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