|
Politics & Religion Discussion of politics and religion |
|
Share | Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
01-16-2014, 11:52am | #1 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #10
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Florida Keys
Posts: 6,625
Thanks: 363
Thanked 1,765 Times in 758 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $8563902
|
A Federal Appeals Court Killed Free Speech on the Internet
Today, a federal appeals court handed over control of free speech on the Internet to a handful of companies. This is why it matters.
--- Say you’re an NRA Republican. You’re from Tennessee. The websites you go to on a daily basis are Yahoo for your email and news, ESPN for your sports, and TNGunOwners.com, a message board to talk about your day at the range. What if one day your access to your email is fine, your Tim Tebow coverage from ESPN is as loud as ever, and TNGunOwners.com inexplicably took 4-to-6 times longer to load? What if you called your Internet service provider and their answer was, “That’s just the way it is now”? Say you’re a Whole Foods-pillagin’ Democrat. You’re from Portland. You go to GMail for your email, MSNBC for your news, Reddit for your cat videos, and an indie music blog like Said The Gramophone to find your music. One day, your access to Gmail is fine, your Rachel Maddow clips are coming in clear as day, and that YouTube video of a cat taking a bath on Reddit is rolling along smoothly. But it takes so long to load one song from that indie music blog you just turn on the radio. Say you’re entirely apolitical. It doesn’t matter where you live. You’re struggling with depression because it’s hard to cope with your mother’s recently diagnosed cancer. You go to cancerforums.net. You go to takethislife.com for help, when you can’t read the cancer forum anymore. One day, those sites take ten times longer to load than they did before. What if you called your Internet service provider and their answer was, “Verizon now throttles bandwidth to websites from the non-Premium Tier. Would you like to upgrade?” --- A federal appeals court ruled that the FCC can no longer enforce which websites Verizon and all other broadband providers can favor, limit access to, or outright block — even if it’s to prop up a service or website of their own. This is not a binary political issue. It is not a Republican or Democrat issue. This is naked corporate greed. It is a bunch of companies who want to control the largest free information platform in the world. There is nothing good that an individual can derive from this decision. Nothing. Before someone tells you otherwise, Internet service providers’ backs were not against the wall in any way. “Bandwidth congestion” is not real. It costs just as much money, if not more money, to cap the data flowing through your broadband connection as it does to serve it to you. Data caps are solely a money-making construct. Average connection speeds in South Korea are twice as fast as those in the United States. That gap will grow even wider now. This ruling is anti-competitive for American business on a global level. Tech giants Google, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Yahoo have come out against rulings like this in the past. Instead, the decision favors companies with access to pipelines, like Comcast. It will help them use the Internet as a marketing tool for its other ventures, like NBC Universal. The very best scenario a consumer can hope for is this: Companies will start offering “unlimited” Internet plans to access the Internet you currently see today. The Web will be partitioned off into sections, like cable tiers, and those ISPs will offer speedier connections to certain kinds of websites if you buy into each tier. The very worst a consumer can expect is that some information will be deemed too unsavory for public consumption, while select corporate messages can be blasted to your home at lightning speed. This is not a political story. This is corporate greed at its most blatant and obvious. Call a Congressman. Get a law passed. Override the better lawyers, the lobbyists, the bought Congressmen. Do the impossible. It’s the only way. Read more: A Federal Appeals Court Killed Free Speech on the Internet Today. The Internet Will Now Be Enforced by a Handful of Companies. - Esquire Follow us: @Esquiremag on Twitter | Esquire on Facebook Visit us at Esquire.com |
||||||
01-16-2014, 11:55am | #2 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #16A
Barn Stall Owner #16B NCM Supporter '11,'13 Bantayan Kids '13
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: NW FL
Posts: 50,655
Thanks: 10,179
Thanked 13,061 Times in 7,342 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $602908
|
Keep that shit in PRC where it belongs.
|
||||||
The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to Sea Six For This Useful Post: |
01-16-2014, 12:00pm | #3 | ||||||
Goldilocks
Barn Stall Owner #905 Bantayan Kids '13,'15
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: My butt's been wiped.
Posts: 30,981
Thanks: 5,227
Thanked 16,607 Times in 7,133 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $1009320
|
|
||||||
01-16-2014, 12:02pm | #4 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #16A
Barn Stall Owner #16B NCM Supporter '11,'13 Bantayan Kids '13
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: NW FL
Posts: 50,655
Thanks: 10,179
Thanked 13,061 Times in 7,342 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $602908
|
|
||||||
01-16-2014, 12:05pm | #5 | ||||||
A Real Barner
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: GA
Posts: 19,015
Thanks: 9,674
Thanked 7,050 Times in 3,110 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $46272
|
It is the first step to setup the internet like cable TV pricing plans. You will pay for a lot of garbage you don't want and it will be bundled (speed wise) to the sites you most often visit.
I got a notice from Crapcast awhile back they are 'testing' internet volume in my area. They will start throttling soon, if they aren't already. |
||||||
01-16-2014, 12:22pm | #6 | |||||||
Barn Stall Owner #16A
Barn Stall Owner #16B NCM Supporter '11,'13 Bantayan Kids '13
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: NW FL
Posts: 50,655
Thanks: 10,179
Thanked 13,061 Times in 7,342 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $602908
|
How Democrats Kill Jobs
RealClearPolitics - Articles - Print Article
Quote:
This is not a political post. It is about corporate greed, plain and simple. |
|||||||
01-16-2014, 12:23pm | #7 | ||||||
C4 Mod
Barn Raising II,III
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Cincinnati, OH ....ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑBE....
Posts: 14,254
Thanks: 1,363
Thanked 7,927 Times in 3,541 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $19752494
|
In the last 8 months, my internet bill has increased by 40% while over the same timespan my speeds have decreased by almost 50%.
Lucky for me, I don't have any better options. |
||||||
01-16-2014, 12:24pm | #8 | ||||||
Bantayan Kids '13
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Louisville, KY
Posts: 4,079
Thanks: 1,230
Thanked 1,425 Times in 727 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $123317
|
Assholes
|
||||||
01-16-2014, 1:00pm | #9 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #15
Fantasy Football Champ '11,'13,'17
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Somewhere between mild insanity and complete psychosis.
Posts: 7,973
Thanks: 319
Thanked 2,462 Times in 1,242 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $1050381
|
Yeah, this was a shit decision and the GOP is stupid for supporting this garbage.
The internet was created by the government and we paid for it via our tax dollars, and oh by the way all that infrastructure owned by providers was actually also subsidized and mostly paid for by us. This is about as smart as turning the interstate highway system into a bunch of toll roads owned by a bunch of different companies. Except FAR more damaging. If this is allowed to happen, it will be an economic gut-punch. The internet provided a truly open market and a level playing field for competition of all sizes. It has been an economic boon for this country. So let's just go ahead and **** it up. |
||||||
The Following 5 Users Say Thank You to Will For This Useful Post: |
01-16-2014, 1:36pm | #10 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #10
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Florida Keys
Posts: 6,625
Thanks: 363
Thanked 1,765 Times in 758 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $8563902
|
|
||||||
01-16-2014, 1:36pm | #11 | ||||||
A Real Barner
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 2,488
Thanks: 722
Thanked 512 Times in 225 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $139239
|
|
||||||
01-16-2014, 3:49pm | #12 | ||||||||
Goldilocks
Barn Stall Owner #905 Bantayan Kids '13,'15
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: My butt's been wiped.
Posts: 30,981
Thanks: 5,227
Thanked 16,607 Times in 7,133 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $1009320
|
Quote:
Quote:
|
||||||||
01-16-2014, 5:09pm | #13 | |||||||
Latin American Goat Roper
Barn Stall Owner #101 Bantayan Kids '13
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Orange Park Florida
Posts: 61,002
Thanks: 33,113
Thanked 11,633 Times in 5,738 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $1138393
|
Quote:
I have essentially two choices......commi cast or Uverse..... that's IT for .net or even TV, |
|||||||
01-16-2014, 5:12pm | #14 | ||||||
Rebel Mod
Barn Stall Owner #88
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: The SouthLand
Posts: 8,702
Thanks: 2,083
Thanked 2,792 Times in 1,320 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $15450571
|
|
||||||
01-16-2014, 5:57pm | #15 | |||||||
Goldilocks
Barn Stall Owner #905 Bantayan Kids '13,'15
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: My butt's been wiped.
Posts: 30,981
Thanks: 5,227
Thanked 16,607 Times in 7,133 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $1009320
|
Quote:
But wild west internet ain't one of the things people will ditch. It's to ingrained in our daily lives. |
|||||||
01-16-2014, 6:02pm | #16 | |||||||
Latin American Goat Roper
Barn Stall Owner #101 Bantayan Kids '13
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Orange Park Florida
Posts: 61,002
Thanks: 33,113
Thanked 11,633 Times in 5,738 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $1138393
|
Quote:
the ISP's need US, we don't need them and that goes for the entire telecom networks nationwide too..... I may be bored as hell, but in fact, it's not so much more without the .net..... .net is good for email & business use..... |
|||||||
01-16-2014, 7:05pm | #17 | |||||||
Goldilocks
Barn Stall Owner #905 Bantayan Kids '13,'15
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: My butt's been wiped.
Posts: 30,981
Thanks: 5,227
Thanked 16,607 Times in 7,133 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $1009320
|
Quote:
|
|||||||
01-16-2014, 7:08pm | #18 | ||||||
Latin American Goat Roper
Barn Stall Owner #101 Bantayan Kids '13
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Orange Park Florida
Posts: 61,002
Thanks: 33,113
Thanked 11,633 Times in 5,738 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $1138393
|
|
||||||
01-17-2014, 10:08am | #19 | |||||||
C4 Mod
Barn Raising II,III
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Cincinnati, OH ....ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑBE....
Posts: 14,254
Thanks: 1,363
Thanked 7,927 Times in 3,541 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $19752494
|
Quote:
I dropped my internet plan to the lowest rate... because it's what I was getting anyway... and when we want a movie, we hit the RedBox. It's amazing that tech in this area seems to be going backwards. 5-7 years ago, I had FASTER internet at a much CHEAPER price. |
|||||||
01-29-2014, 2:07am | #20 | ||||||
Barn Stall Owner #10
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Florida Keys
Posts: 6,625
Thanks: 363
Thanked 1,765 Times in 758 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $8563902
|
|
||||||
|
|
Support the Barn: |
Download the Mobile App; |
Follow us on Facebook: |
||