(12-19-2017, 03:29 PM)TrivialPursuit Wrote: Lots of ignorance in this thread.

Net Neutrality is just another way to make the idiot sheep (left) think the Government is doing something.

2015 is when it started.. so from 1991 to 2015 it was the FREE MARKET (that thing the left hates) that guided the internet.. and guess what? If we, the people, don't like what a company is doing, then we, the people, will stop using them. Period.

Net Neutrality was BS when it started and it's just a bigger more useless pile of BS now.

So let's just stomp this notion to the ground:

Prior to about 2010 net neutrailty was the de facto status of the internet not because of free market or any other outdated notion but because ISPs simply did not have the tech required to monitor the data going trough their networks. Somewhere between 2010 and 2015 this tech did become available and the ISPs start using it to reduce the bandwidth available to services like Netflix. If you're wondering why Netflix specifically; it's because the ISPs are often also the only providers of cable TV in an area and Netflix is a direct competitor of cable TV. If you're slow to keep up, I spell it out directly for you: ISPs like Comcast were intentionally abusing their monopoly position on broadband internet to hinder the operation of a direct competitor. 

The FCC tried to stop this practice but the ISPs argued in court that the FCC had no authority because they weren't considered Title II providers. The ISPs won this case so in response the FCC, with support from the executive branch and the federal government, declared ISPs to be Title II providers thus giving the FCC the authority to enforce net neutrality and stop the type of abusive practices of the years previous.

Net neutrality existed long before the 2015 change came into effect. The only thing that changed in 2015 was that the appropriate government agencies the ability to properly monitor and correct the ISPs to enforce free and equal access to the internet for all. With the current removal of this oversight that power has now returned to the ISPs which means your ability to access the internet at your discretion is now at the mercy of [BLEEP] Comcast and their ilk.

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