The little guys just don't have the resources to be nation wide and offer the same speed and reliability for home internet. It's similar in Canada as well, but we have pretty shitty internet because we have so few people and such a large country. 80 Mbps internet where I live is like $120.
Someone in the FCC is a former Verizon lawyer (or maybe it was former management) so they're pushing for net neutrality to be finished so ISP's can charge you additional fees to access sites you want. So big sites like eBay, Amazon, Netflix, and similar sites can be blocked or ISPs can threaten to block them to extort a pretty penny from them. I imagine the guy pushing for this gets a nice kickback from Verizon (and possibly other ISPs).
That looks great!
They're doing it because the head of the FCC is a former Verizon lawyer and can do whatever he wants now that he's in charge.
This is kinda true (in my eyes at least, cuz I hate Trump), but frankly I think we'll get more work done to fix the issue by not bringing up party lines like this. Net neutrality is one of few principles with broad bipartisan support outside the government, so we'll get more done by using that common ground. We don't win by saying "I told you so", we win by saying "let's not get fucked by these shitty companies and their monopolies".
Who told you such a lie? No matter how many people complain, you CAN'T sue them! The senators and president were elected by YOU to represent you, so whether you like it or not, you can boycott those, but not the FCC or it's decisions. You CAN cause a premature election to happen to replace senators or the president if more than 1/4th of the country is gathered through petitions, but that's never gonna happen with such a huge country. However, in the case that does happen, you can vote them all out of the office and replace them with others who will still be that kind of people!
Same here, in Greece we got like 10 million people and 15 or so providers, even if most aren't that known. In the US it's because the lines were laid out by the government at first and then sold them to investors, but at the time, there were only two individuals who were interested in that investment, so they got a hold of them, built companies and expanded and now things are like this. Now, if any small provider wants to provide internet to people, they "rent" or "borrow" a small part of the lines by one of the other two big companies and that part they get is intentionally and significantly slowed down to even bellow 40% of normal speed. That's also the reason why so many ISPs go with cellular, they prefer a satellite that, while slower, is more dependable and still faster and avoid using the big ISPs' cable lines.
IIRC the EFF even said as much not long ago, net neutrality is a lost battle. Some semblance of it still remains but it's not what anyone wanted. EFF had to take what they got and what they got was not much worth speaking of.
Not at all, I'm just not sure anything we do at this point will make a difference.
How do you suggest protesting it then? Digging up a bunch of fiber lines? Cutting down the cable lines? DDOSing their DNS servers? Actually that all sounds pretty fun and if a lot of people did it, it would cost them millions to repair all that shit.
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