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Very funny video, guy at work showed it to me last week. And there's a very good dig at FCC Chairman Ajit Pai at the very end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltzy5vRmN8Q
The truth is a little more complicated. Internet service providers can sell you different tier packages with different speeds and bandwidth caps, that's totally legal. But what the repeal means is they can now charge you extra to access YouTube if Vime gives them money to slow down other video sharing sites. There's been so much consolidation in ISPs and ISPs have been buying major internet content providers that this is a serious problem.
The claim was that there was no innovation in internet technology because of the onus of net neutrality. The truth is that the innovation did not come from ISPs, it came from tech startups making spiffy new things. Within the last two months AT&T laid off 700 engineers in violation of union contracts and will now be hiring contractors so they won't be responsible for benefits. Comcast laid off 500, similar story. Comcast made a boast that they're spending $50mil on infrastructure improvements because of the repeal when that money had already been budgeted before the repeal had even been discussed.
Today, California became the third or fourth state to impose some form of regulation reinstating net neutrality, and Congress has legislation in development to enshrine it in law so that future FCC chairmen can't screw with it as Pai included a state preemption clause but worded it poorly. Plus, aren't the Republicans all about state rights? Where does an alleged Republican administration get off on repealing regulation then saying states can't put it back in place?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltzy5vRmN8Q
The truth is a little more complicated. Internet service providers can sell you different tier packages with different speeds and bandwidth caps, that's totally legal. But what the repeal means is they can now charge you extra to access YouTube if Vime gives them money to slow down other video sharing sites. There's been so much consolidation in ISPs and ISPs have been buying major internet content providers that this is a serious problem.
The claim was that there was no innovation in internet technology because of the onus of net neutrality. The truth is that the innovation did not come from ISPs, it came from tech startups making spiffy new things. Within the last two months AT&T laid off 700 engineers in violation of union contracts and will now be hiring contractors so they won't be responsible for benefits. Comcast laid off 500, similar story. Comcast made a boast that they're spending $50mil on infrastructure improvements because of the repeal when that money had already been budgeted before the repeal had even been discussed.
Today, California became the third or fourth state to impose some form of regulation reinstating net neutrality, and Congress has legislation in development to enshrine it in law so that future FCC chairmen can't screw with it as Pai included a state preemption clause but worded it poorly. Plus, aren't the Republicans all about state rights? Where does an alleged Republican administration get off on repealing regulation then saying states can't put it back in place?
