(12-14-2017 09:08 PM)mikeinoki Wrote:  

(12-14-2017 06:45 PM)DefCONNOne Wrote:  

(12-14-2017 06:22 PM)mikeinoki Wrote:  

(12-14-2017 05:15 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  

(12-14-2017 05:14 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  beat me to it. The internet was working just fine before net neutrality...

From 2012 on that had been changing, mostly in select areas as opposed to nation wide.

Now, expect it to be nation wide.

The difference is the huge growth of streaming channels and video. Netflix, Sling, Hulu Live TV, etc. are replacing traditional cable TV. My ISP is Spectrum/TWC. I do not have regular cable TV, I use Hulu and Netflix. Now Spectrum has the right to slow down or block video streaming. They can choose to offer their own online steaming service as a replacement, eliminating my choice. They can block access to websites or block apps (think ESPN, History Channel) from operating on "their" internet. This has already happened in Europe.

In case you're wondering why I wouldn't just switch to another service provider, as the linked article above states, "51 percent of Americans only have one ISP to choose from."

Goodbye internet freedom. Welcome Chinese Communist Internet 2017.

I'm sorry I breathe the same air you do, Mr. smugly superior cord-cutter.

Hope your asthma gets better. I choose to use Hulu primarily for the sports channels they offer, at $40/month and $60/month internet from TWC. To get the same channels from Spectrum/TWC I would need an internet/TV package that costs $170/month, for the first year. Now they have a legal tool to restrict what I choose to watch and try to force me back into their crappy cable packages. They are a monopoly where I live, just like the other 51% of Americans who only have 1 service provider in their area. I want freedom to choose how I want to use the internet, not to have a single monopolistic corporation dictate what I can and can't see, which websites I can visit, which apps I can use. Maybe everything is cherry pie, peaches and cream, hunky dory where you live. Well bully for you. Here it ain't. This blows.

So you want the "freedom" to "choose" what a bunch of unaccountable bureaucrats decide is best for you? And to force those same choices on everyone else?