Obama wants to regulate the internet

[don]

Re: Obama wants to regulate the internet

Last Night Tonight

[metalman]

Re: Obama wants to regulate the internet

'cui bono?' how long do want it to take for an itulip page to load? itulip is not exactly a big player on the internet. the loss of net neutrality means you might not be able to load this website at all.

gives me an idea... write a web site plugin/widget called 'performance of this site after net neutrality' to advertise the impact.

plugin/widget slows the site to a crawl when the visitor activates it by clicking on it.

demonstrates the impact. makes it real. wakes up the masses.

[jmdpet]

Re: Obama wants to regulate the internet

Some have already done this, e.g.

http://theonion.github.io/comcastifyjs/

[shiny!]

Re: Obama wants to regulate the internet

gives me an idea... write a web site plugin/widget called 'performance of this site after net neutrality' to advertise the impact.

plugin/widget slows the site to a crawl when the visitor activates it by clicking on it.

demonstrates the impact. makes it real. wakes up the masses.

Don't you mean 'performance of this site without net neutrality'?

[vinoveri]

Re: Obama wants to regulate the internet

The value of our ISP, (Comcast), is availability, maximum bandwidth, and total use for X period. It's simple, not unlike buying electricity. They should price it that way.

This is the key point. Agreed.

But as always the devil is in the details. If the final set of rules include exceptions and exemptions, it is always possible it might make things worse.

And who among us does not believe that the final implementation will in fact have such exceptions and exemptions and those lobbyist will end up getting their swag anyway.
Rewriting the law is challenging enough. The FCC rules and regs that follow is where the sausage gets made.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. And if it is broke, then fix what's broke ONLY.
Can someone tell me what is broken?

I smell bait and switch (but then again I'm somewhat cynical...)