rocketboom.com— This video provides a simple and succinct explanation of what Net Neutrality is and why it is a bad thing. Watch. Learn. Contact your Congressional Leaders. Spread the word.
Jun 24, 2006View in Crawl 4
If the internet is not neutral expect your ISP bill to turn into your cellphone bill.Want to send/recieve video? That'll cost you extra.Want to send/recieve instant messages? That'll cost you extra.Want to send/recieve music? That'll cost you extra.Want to send/recieve voip calls? That'll cost you extra.If the cellphone networks were neutral your 1000 minute plan wouldn't differentiate between digital voice calls and digital data calls. Wait until meshed 802.11(whatever) takes over and you can send waitever data you want wirelessly from paractically anywhere. This is what these network providers want to stop before it gets to that point.
One of many reasons I don't own a cellphone. The companies have WAY too much control over what goes in and out and how much you pay.Awful non-standard Web browsers (I haven't seen Opera's browser enough to judge that)? Costly addon services? Telephone companies stuffing phones with costly addon services in our faces in the first place (SUBSCRIBE NOW AND GET TEH FREE CAM3r4 PHONY!!1)? PAYING TO SEND OR RECEIVE A TINY BLOCK OF f**kING TEXT?!?I'll stick with my 50-cent payphones, thx.
"This video provides a simple and succinct explanation of what Net Neutrality is and why it is a bad thing." Well if it's going to tell me why it's a bad thing, then I'm hardly convinced to watch it. I want something that will tell me what Net Neutrality is...then I'll decide for myself whether it's a bad thing.
but people browsing youtube end up downloading say 50mb of data in a few minutes whereas people browsing their email or news sites download maybe a meg or two in the same amount of time
Net Neutrality is not a bad thing!I'm already worried my VoIP is at risk given the reports about some ISPs blocking packets from them since the ISP also has their own VoIP solution. If there is no neutrality then it's a new way for old monopolistic companies to stay that way by forcing out their competition by raising the price for their services.Another thing to think about is all those great services Google keeps kicking out. You think those will stay free? Of course not.Telcos have always been greedy assh**es. Some things never change. Maybe they should quit worrying about making more money and take what they've been taxing us for years and get us the fiber they promised. Then bandwidth would be a moot point.
Actually corporations have no morality. Their sole purpuse is to keep their share holders happy by making money.That's an established fact.So would you expect a corporation to keep promises? Or take advantage of a potention source of revenue?This happens all the time, but people like sheep keep getting played. Why do you think with a govt. that maintains it's highest priority as catering to big business, the country is in shambles, jobless and poor?
dduardoJun 24, 2006
If the internet is not neutral expect your ISP bill to turn into your cellphone bill.Want to send/recieve video? That'll cost you extra.Want to send/recieve instant messages? That'll cost you extra.Want to send/recieve music? That'll cost you extra.Want to send/recieve voip calls? That'll cost you extra.If the cellphone networks were neutral your 1000 minute plan wouldn't differentiate between digital voice calls and digital data calls. Wait until meshed 802.11(whatever) takes over and you can send waitever data you want wirelessly from paractically anywhere. This is what these network providers want to stop before it gets to that point.
gamekidJun 24, 2006
One of many reasons I don't own a cellphone. The companies have WAY too much control over what goes in and out and how much you pay.Awful non-standard Web browsers (I haven't seen Opera's browser enough to judge that)? Costly addon services? Telephone companies stuffing phones with costly addon services in our faces in the first place (SUBSCRIBE NOW AND GET TEH FREE CAM3r4 PHONY!!1)? PAYING TO SEND OR RECEIVE A TINY BLOCK OF f**kING TEXT?!?I'll stick with my 50-cent payphones, thx.
gmaleticJun 24, 2006
"This video provides a simple and succinct explanation of what Net Neutrality is and why it is a bad thing." Well if it's going to tell me why it's a bad thing, then I'm hardly convinced to watch it. I want something that will tell me what Net Neutrality is...then I'll decide for myself whether it's a bad thing.
pdlevinJun 24, 2006
but people browsing youtube end up downloading say 50mb of data in a few minutes whereas people browsing their email or news sites download maybe a meg or two in the same amount of time
killroy42Jun 25, 2006
... and american polititians ;)
donolsen1155Jun 25, 2006
Net Neutrality is not a bad thing!I'm already worried my VoIP is at risk given the reports about some ISPs blocking packets from them since the ISP also has their own VoIP solution. If there is no neutrality then it's a new way for old monopolistic companies to stay that way by forcing out their competition by raising the price for their services.Another thing to think about is all those great services Google keeps kicking out. You think those will stay free? Of course not.Telcos have always been greedy assh**es. Some things never change. Maybe they should quit worrying about making more money and take what they've been taxing us for years and get us the fiber they promised. Then bandwidth would be a moot point.
Closed AccountJun 25, 2006
Actually corporations have no morality. Their sole purpuse is to keep their share holders happy by making money.That's an established fact.So would you expect a corporation to keep promises? Or take advantage of a potention source of revenue?This happens all the time, but people like sheep keep getting played. Why do you think with a govt. that maintains it's highest priority as catering to big business, the country is in shambles, jobless and poor?
brave1Jun 26, 2006
The blocking of craigslist mentioned in the video was not intentional, but was most likely due to the misconfiguration of some networking equipment/software on the craigslist side. Here's a link to a ZDNet blog with some more info and discussion: <a class="user" href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/index.php?p=250">http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/index.php?p=250</a>