Trump Names Two Opponents of Net Neutrality To Oversee FCC Transition Team (gizmodo.com) 395
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: President-elect Donald Trump has appointed two new advisers to his transition team that will oversee his FCC and telecommunications policy agenda. Both of the new advisers are staunch opponents of net neutrality regulations. Jeff Eisenach, one of the two newly appointed advisers, is an economist who has previously worked as a consultant for Verizon and its trade association. In September 2014, Eisenach testified before a Senate Judiciary Committee and said, "Net neutrality would not improve consumer welfare or protect the public interest." He has also worked for the conservative think-tank American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and in a blog post wrote, "Net neutrality is crony capitalism pure and simple." Mark Jamison, the other newly appointed adviser, also has a long history of battling against net neutrality oversight. Jamison formerly worked on Sprint's lobbying team and now leads the University of Florida's Public Utility Research Center. Both Eisenach and Jamison are considered leading adversaries of net neutrality who worked hard to prevent the rules from being passed last year. For the uninitiated, the rules passed last year prevent companies internet providers from discriminating against any online content or services. For example, without net neutrality rules, internet providers like Comcast and Verizon could charge internet subscribers more for using sites like Netflix. The FCC's net neutrality rules would protect consumers from paying exorbitant fees for internet use.
Why are we even arguing about it? (Score:5, Interesting)
This is simple. They are ether common carriers or they are not.
If they are common carriers then they can not inspect the content they carry and as such are not liable for that content.
If they are NOT common carriers then they can inspect the content and charge what they like. However, they are liable for the content they carry. Thus if they choose to not be common carriers and someone is transmitting Child porn, threats, selling drugs, pirated music and movies,etc. Then they are liable for the transport of that data and we should prosecute them for it.
Do it just a few times and all the ISP's will be on board with becoming common carriers.
Re:Why are we even arguing about it? (Score:5, Insightful)
It is absolutely not that simple. Since Trump or at least congress can craft the regulations with whatever exemptions they see fit. Giving "common carriers" their cake and letting them eat it.
Re:Why are we even arguing about it? (Score:5, Insightful)
Trump or at least congress can craft the regulations with whatever exemptions they see fit.
Donald calls this process "Draining the Swamp".
Re:Why are we even arguing about it? (Score:5, Insightful)
He only wants to drain it so he can build his own sewage works there. The first thing he has done is appoint his friends and family to his administration, scumbags the lot of them.
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Why are people surprised about this? Only idiots didn't see this coming.
People have been told they should be angry and that they have been cheated; the one thing Trump is very good at is playing for ratings and he got that. He was able to use the media to his advantage and without having to pay for a lot of the attention. We shall see in four years if the electors do not vote against him, who will admit to having voted for Trump, especially since the sewage plant is in full swing it seems.
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I'm pretty sure Amtrak is allowed to check to make sure you aren't shipping large quantities of radioactive material on their cars. I'm pretty sure that qualifies as "reasonable rail transportation management".
The loopholes are large and easily navigable.
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Are you worried the internet will be used to transport radioactive bits?
Re:Why are we even arguing about it? (Score:5, Funny)
Well, some Youtube comments do give you cancer, so maybe that's why!
Re:Why are we even arguing about it? (Score:5, Insightful)
Cough, cough, like corporate censorship is no their wet dream, even in personal one on one digital transmissions, "sorry the statement you just made is illegal and you have been cut off, penalty for the message is a 72 hour cooling off period during which your service will be disconnected, this is your third warning any additional infraction will result in an extended disconnection of three months, have a nice day". Your plan sucks big time, you are giving them exactly what they want. Net neutrality is a privacy right, those who attack our right to privacy should be punished, severely.
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Privacy and Free speech are the positive/negative (freedom to, freedom from) liberty two sides of the same coin. You can't have free speech without Anonymity (privacy!) and you cant have privacy without free speech.
We can carve excemptions into these. Shouting fire in crowded theatres, or intentionally inciting some crimes (ie calling a hit on somebody, or ordering a crowd to go burn down a mosque, or whatever) might be a reasonable excemption to free speech, and likewise we might throw a few excemptions in
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If they are common carriers then they can not inspect the content they carry and as such are not liable for that content.
However they can look at the envelope (the address and the return address) and charge differently/deliver with different quality of service, favoring their own content.
Basically Verizon would like it's Internet service to be like their cellular service years ago, where signing on meant you really had to use their services.
Re: Why are we even arguing about it? (Score:3)
This is what you think. It may even be supported by logic. Unfortunately, politics is not about logic, it is about power and influence and money. Lobbyists in high places will do what they always wanted the last 4 years.
While I do not live in the US, it frightens me what that might have an effect on the EU.
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The US has only so many wide fast interconnects nationally for consumer grade data.
Content providers are getting cash per show or movie. The national or local brand ISP is getting paid per account. Who is paying for the upgrade of the tubes and pipes that interconnect nationally?
Time for some infrastructure upgrade payments along the US wid
Re:I still want short distance & long distance (Score:5, Insightful)
ISP's have been playing games with content providers and backbone internet companies for years. Netflix offered to install a FREE CDN on all the ISP's networks that would have decreased their network traffic to the backbone by over 50% but they refused because they wanted Netflix to pay to get to their customers. Ultimately Netflix caved and paid the toll and raised their rates to compensate. Net Neutrality would make this type of extortion illegal. Right now AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, et al own the last mile AND competing VOD services. This is a complete conflict of interest.
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Telco monopolies and cartels demanding a new "upkeep" payment to the east, west coast and fly over states per packet?
The telcos forget they just push packets. They are not making great content. If content is making billions in profit, become a content producer too.
If the US gets closed telco networks with packet payments in the east, mid and
Re:I still want short distance & long distance (Score:5, Interesting)
So killing net neutrality is not necessarily a bad thing if it's coupled with forcing local governments to allow competition in the last mile.
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Netflix offered to install a FREE CDN on all the ISP's networks that would have decreased their network traffic to the backbone by over 50% but they refused because they wanted Netflix to pay to get to their customers.
You mean, pay for peering, which Netflix didn't want to do?
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This honestly sounds like the sort of thing you could goad Trump into promising on Twitter. This is your one big chance to directly influence policy before they take his Twitter account away again.
I feel sorry for you guys. No joke. (Score:2, Interesting)
I have to say it, folks. Looking across the pond and seeing what's going on in the US right now is so patently absurd, words fail me. I'm seriously worried. You're having a Type A autocrat in charge soon and clear and present dangers encroaching on basic foundational structures, social contracts and rights in the US.
I acutally have a serious question regarding the most recent developments:
What are you doing about this? Personally, I mean. What are you thinking about doing?
Anybody of you guys going all-out p
Re:I feel sorry for you guys. No joke. (Score:5, Funny)
Personally, just saying fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck over and over again in my head.
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Let me put it this way: Bush, for all his flaws, never started a nuclear war. There is still room to be worse than him.
Re: I feel sorry for you guys. No joke. (Score:2)
Why should Clinton throw nuclear bombs in Syria? It makes no sense and only kill civilians. Even if she is a war mongering person. Trump however is not a rational person and therefore not easy to understand. This is a problem because your allies do not know if they can trust you and your enemies must expect the worst. Such setup can lead to war.
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Hillary might have started one, over Syria. She fucked up in Libya as SoS and was talking of escalating in Syria.
Don't kid youself that Trump will be worse. Clinton is a warmonger. Or would have been, we've dodged that now.
Get in your "But Hillary would have been worse" arguments while you still can. They will provide increasingly diminishing returns. If America isn't sick of winning in 4 years we're going to be really pissed.
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The pot is only a few degrees warmer than it was last year. I'm sure everything will work out [gunshowcomic.com].
Re:I feel sorry for you guys. No joke. (Score:5, Funny)
Now I'm just back to worrying about zombies.
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Florida puts up with meth spills on the highway, but not political protests.
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It accomplishes nothing. Do the protests BEFORE the election. In fact, forget the protests, just get people to vote. 40% of the eligible voters didn't even bother to vote (even if they hate the presidential candidates there is so much more to vote on). If you get people to vote you can change an election, if you go and protest then nothing changes.
Re: I feel sorry for you guys. No joke. (Score:2)
Wow... a vague threat of violence? Go back to playing Call of Duty in your mom's basement, AC.
Okay... I realize that, in an urban dictionary sort of way, that previous sentence could come across as iffy...
Anyway, point stands. Thinly veiled threats as off the cuff jokes are.... very 2016.
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Re: I feel sorry for you guys. No joke. (Score:3)
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but, when we have a say in electing a democratic leader, we respect the result and hope for the best.
If the system of selecting leaders was by heredity, military action, or any such other measure, their would be some poor leaders. I don't why we imagine democracy is that much different.
Re: I feel sorry for you guys. No joke. (Score:3)
People accept that Trump is the next president. They just do not like it. And that for good reasons. It is also time to discuss what will come and how fast so you can prepare for it.
Looking in the mirror are you? (Score:3, Interesting)
America is doing just fine thanks. Trump just released a video [youtube.com] saying what he will be doing, so you don't have to wonder or believe what a bunch of media guys who detest him CLAIM he will do.
Among them:
TPP cancelled. Enjoy whatever country you are in joining that!
More shale production - vast reduction in CO2. We are doing our part, how about your nation?
Two regulations have to be removed for every new one created - while you strangle as regulations pile up.
Ethics reform - five year ban on administration
Re:Looking in the mirror are you? (Score:5, Informative)
America is doing just fine thanks. Trump just released a video [youtube.com] saying what he will be doing, so you don't have to wonder or believe what a bunch of media guys who detest him CLAIM he will do.
Among them:
TPP cancelled. Enjoy whatever country you are in joining that!
Maybe a good thing, maybe a bad thing. Depends what takes its place.
More shale production - vast reduction in CO2. We are doing our part, how about your nation?
Natural gas is fine but shale oil isn't exactly environmentally friendly, if I recall it takes a lot of processing to turn into usable oil.
And it's funny how you left out the "clean coal" part just after that. Trump is going to try to bring back coal, the worst energy source we have for CO2, it doesn't mean he'll succeed but he'll try.
Two regulations have to be removed for every new one created - while you strangle as regulations pile up.
And if you don't have enough you get the 2008 financial crisis. If you do it well sure that's good, but that sounds a bit like a spin on the classic "I'll reduce government waste!" promise, it ignores the factors that created that waste in the first place.
Ethics reform - five year ban on administration officials becoming lobbyists, can never lobby for foreign nations. I wonder how cozy corporations are to YOUR government...
Sounds good, but Trump's transition team is already loaded with lobbyists and corporate bigwigs, so I'm skeptical of its sincerity.
Investigation of visa program abuses (read: companies bringing in lots of foreign programmers and then severely underpaying them as they hold the green card over them).
Sounds good.
Energy grid to be hardened against attacks. As your countries power grid fails over the coming decade you can think back on this as you are sitting in the cold with a flashlight...
A good idea... but why would you assume no one else is hardening their energy and network infrastructure?
The funny thing is many of these items (like TPP being cancelled, or visa abuse) were once darlings of the Slashdot liberals. But now that Trump supports them... well I guess they decided fascism is better than Trump? Oh well.
He's not being criticized for the things he said above, hell, half the things he said above are pretty much things he's emphasizing for the first time.
The problem is all of the things he said and promised on the campaign trail. The problem is all the alt-right figures he's bringing into the white house that have literal white nationalists rejoicing. The problem is the fact that he's already using his position as president-elect to increase his personal wealth.
Re:Looking in the mirror are you? (Score:5, Informative)
Given he's already backed away from multiple campaign promises within days of winning, it's incredibly cute you think he will actually follow through.
Just look at the incompetents he's considering or selecting. He doesn't know what he's doing, and his handlers are simply indulging themselves in punishing the disloyal and rewarding the ever dwindling supply of "loyalists." Plus, the man has displayed the attention span of a gerbil for anything that is not directly tied to his making money or his pride.
This is going to be a long 4-8 years.
Re:Looking in the mirror are you? (Score:5, Informative)
Ethics reform - five year ban on administration officials becoming lobbyists, can never lobby for foreign nations. I wonder how cozy corporations are to YOUR government...
You want to talk about corporations being cozy with government?
1) Trump is trying to get his children positions in the White House while they're operating the non-blind "blind trust"
2) Trump is having one of those children attend his political meetings
3) Trump is also continuing to attend his company's business meetings alongside that same child
I don't see him as being credible in terms of ethics reform. If he wants to "drain the swamp", he should start by removing his own conflicts of interest.
Drain the swamp (Score:3)
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Yes, we can clearly see where Trump's conflict of interest are, and thanks to his blind supporters, he doesn't care either. Trump's questionable business ethics is legendary.
http://www.nationalreview.com/... [nationalreview.com]
I don't have problems with technocrats, some are career politicians. As long if they are honest and competent, why not. However, Trump is neither honest nor competent. Trump is just a self promoter who is good at selling his brand. Over the years, his year of hustling for a quick buck has gradu
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Chelsea? Well since Clinton won the presidency and is putting her daughter in charge of....
Wait a second, what you're saying is literal fiction. What's real life is Trump's kids are going to be running his company and that is NOT a blind trust.
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"More shale production - vast reduction in CO2. We are doing our part, how about your nation?"
What about Trumps promises on bringing back coal?
"Two regulations have to be removed for every new one created - while you strangle as regulations pile up."
What a dumb policy. As if "regulations" are inherently bad. The idiot Right seems to have this bizarre thing with "regulations" like the idiot Left has a thing against "chemicals". Just because it's a "regulation" doesnt make it bad and just because it's a "chem
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TPP: was already dead in the EU
More shale production: Holy crap if you see that as a good thing
Ethics reform: You have a at best discutable guy becoming president without knowing his financials, and you mention ethics reform? Again, holy crap.
Two regulations etc: Nice words, often leads to undesirable results. Not bad in principle, but only the actual implementation matters here.
Energy grid: Having a good energy grid is vital but its symptomatic that the right wingers sell it 'against attacks' where you sim
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The pendulum swings (Score:2)
it's just lopsided to the right nearly always. Even our "left" is mostly right. Obama was Bush in black face for the most part, yea he did some good things, and he did some really really bad things.
I was hoping that Trump would be so hated by his own party nothing would happen but I have to say nearly every subsequent headline sounds like a legacy of pain - raping the FCC that was finally doing the right thing is just the newest set of overwhelming stupid washing over the US.
Democrats are as much for blame
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Politicians will always act like politicians. That means they hate Tump up until the time that he gets elected. Then there is a short moment of internal conflict where they balance their dislike of him with the realization that their party is in charge. Then they call him up and say "Donald, how's it going old buddy, how can I help?"
Re:I feel sorry for you guys. No joke. (Score:5, Interesting)
Rational adults don't pack up and move to Canada when an election doesn't go their way, nor do they build a bunker, collecting guns and freeze-dried food in preparation for some sort of Armageddon. Donald Trump may be an arrogant bastard who thinks of attractive women as trophies to fondle, but he's not Anti-Christ-Hitler-Stalin-Pol-Pot. The fringe right also said a lot of idiotic things when Obama was elected, only the mainstream press was having a collective liberalgasm over electing our first black President, and so probably didn't care as much about reporting it.
Any law passed can also be repealed, and the President can be ousted every four years if he gets to be too unpopular. In truth, very little can be done to significantly change things without Congress' approval (you know, that "balance of powers" thing), and the Republicans have a *very* slim majority in the Senate.
A year from now, when the country hasn't actually imploded, all this angst is going to look a bit silly in retrospect.
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Rational adults don't pack up and move to Canada when an election doesn't go their way, ...
Good thing nobody told me that. I moved to Canada after Bush Jr. was re-elected. Never regretted it once.
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My wife already took the plunge and became a Canadian citizen. I am still just a permanent resident.
It was easy for me to transfer within the company that I worked for. At the time there were openings in Toronto, and I was able to negotiate a nice salary increase. My employer did all the paperwork for the temporary work visas. So for me it was very easy to move here.
The application for permanent residency I had to prepare without help. It's a lot of tedious work but perfectly doable without having to go
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Rational adults don't pack up and move to Canada when an election doesn't go their way, nor do they build a bunker, collecting guns and freeze-dried food in preparation for some sort of Armageddon. Donald Trump may be an arrogant bastard who thinks of attractive women as trophies to fondle, but he's not Anti-Christ-Hitler-Stalin-Pol-Pot. The fringe right also said a lot of idiotic things when Obama was elected, only the mainstream press was having a collective liberalgasm over electing our first black President, and so probably didn't care as much about reporting it.
Any law passed can also be repealed, and the President can be ousted every four years if he gets to be too unpopular. In truth, very little can be done to significantly change things without Congress' approval (you know, that "balance of powers" thing), and the Republicans have a *very* slim majority in the Senate.
A year from now, when the country hasn't actually imploded, all this angst is going to look a bit silly in retrospect.
You think a piece of paper is going to stop someone like Trump? He reminds me a lot of Mussolini actually. That aside, all it takes is a little fear at the right time to turn a democracy into an authoritarian state "for your protection".
The difference between Trump and Obama is that Obama never said, nor had a history of saying, despotic ideals. He never got a crowd riled up to lock up a political opponent. He never threatened news organizations with lawsuits, even Fox at the peak of Beck Mania. Obama didn'
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That aside, all it takes is a little fear at the right time to turn a democracy into an authoritarian state "for your protection".
No, it really doesn't. People who make arguments like that point to the early century dictatorships like Germany or Italy, without considering that neither of those countries had any real democratic tradition, like the US has had for two centuries with our republic. A history of rule by authoritarian monarchs makes it pretty easy to transition to a dictatorship, because they're really the same thing, except the former has a bit more history to give it legitimacy.
Also, it appears you haven't been truly pay
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They also did the usual thing where they went out and found an American tourist who was prepared to say something nice about the place, (this is standard practice for the media here) but the guy they picked was also going to apply for residency.
We might get a few Yanks coming over, which would be nice.
"nice" (Score:2, Insightful)
We might get a few Yanks coming over, which would be nice.
You are welcome to anyone who flees the US over an election and can't even wait to see what kind of policies are actually implemented. We have a term for them here: ""Blithering Idiot", or "Dumber than a bag full of hammers".
Happily for the world the natural wonders of New Zealand will not put up with idiocy long, and natural selection will prove its worth once again.
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In America, we have the right to bear arms.
We do not have the right to use them.
Notice our riots. We use stone-age weapons. Literally.
There's big talk about how the Second Amendment will allow us to overthrow our own government, but it's illegal to even express the intent.
As for what we're going to do: We will do nothing except let democracy work.
And, it will.
Presidential candidates promise things that are beyond the scope of the Executive branch.
Immigration, abortion, taxes, economy, jobs, walls, immigrati
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I'm drinking and posting on the internet. What am I supposed to do?
The thought has crossed my mind to emigrate, but to where? And do I really think I could or that I'd like it better?
I have thought of that, but never seriously.
I can't just show up in Germany and say I'm a refugee from Syria. I don't think they'd believe me, but maybe I could get them to let me stay anyway.
But if I had a good job offer from most parts of Europe or some parts of South America or Asia or Canada I would consider it. I've m
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What are you doing about this? Personally, I mean. What are you thinking about doing?
In part it's premature to be very specific. We have to see exactly what he does. I expect he may well stab some of his friends in the back, and that will be bad for him and good for people against him. Other the general outline is pretty clear: Protest. Educate. Volunteer. Donate. Call out bad behavior.
However biggest real problem is the normalization of the lunatic fringe; the Klan, neonazis and white supremacists. These will have to be challenged. That means confront, fight if necessary, protect wher
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Hi Qbertino,
If you read through this thread, the replies you received will likely be greatly disheartening.
It's truly a fact-free world where "truthiness" trumps reality.
Even here on Slashdot.
When stories of outrageous ISP pricing and behaviour, etc. ad nauseam, start appearing in the future, take some solace in that it's basically exactly what they've asked for and they deserve it, hard. H.L. Menken being paraphrased there.
Thanks for you many +5 Informative / Insightful posts over the years. I don't expe
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Thanks for making my point, ya twatwaffle.
Re:Brexified! [Re:I feel sorry for you guys. No jo (Score:5, Funny)
Look who's lecturing us: YOUR country Brexited your asses into recession.
That should give you an idea just how fucked you really are. When even Boris Johnson is all like, 'what a muppet!' you should probably take note.
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Look who's lecturing us: YOUR country Brexited your asses into recession.
We'll see who gets to gloat. [thedailymash.co.uk]
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Look who's lecturing us: YOUR country Brexited your asses into recession.
Yeah, and now old Farage is over there fucking up your shit. Well, tough, he's your problem now, we don't want him back.
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that's just a side-effect of the chemtrails.
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What if they shoot back? They are allowed to buy guns, you know...
Re: I feel sorry for you guys. No joke. (Score:2, Interesting)
I'm a liberal and I own many guns. Specifically because of the alt right criminal types I have encountered before.
But I am more than happy letting them believe I am afraid of guns and don't own any. Let them come unprepared for what i have in store for them.
Re: I feel sorry for you guys. No joke. (Score:2)
Does SJW mean black people? I'm not up on all the white supremacist lingo.
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Gun sales were up because of Right wing propaganda that the Left was going to "take our guns". Please note that not a single piece of legislation proposed by the Democratic party mainstream during the Obama years sought to disarm law abiding Americans. Meanwhile Right wing talking heads have been screaming that Liberals were trying to ban all guns for the last 8 years.
Shit, Bernie Sanders, the most Liberal of serious US contenders for the US presidency since forever, had a very clear stance against radical
Hello Trump apologists (Score:3, Interesting)
Please tell us how higher costs, lower speeds, less competition, and blocked/gated content will make america great again.
I for one am looking forward to paying extra for a Google and Wikipedia subscription on my cable bill. I can't quite afford the all access bundle but, hey, who needs every port. Netflix is overrated anyway.
Yes tell us how fair internet access is actually slavery and crooked government and that Veriozon(tm) Internet(tm) pure capitalist freedom.
Additionally, could you also tell me how I'm a CTR shill and that as a Liberal, that I'm actually the real racist.
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we've had higher costs, lower speeds, less competition for years. I can't do port 25 email out of my home, so I call that blocked content
President Wildcard (Score:2)
It's premature to say what Mr. Trump will actually do. He has given anti-trust some lip service, which suggests he'd preserve NN in order prevent big telecoms from also controlling big media. But whether he follows through is another matter.
While he may prefer trust-busting actions, he may trade it away for something else that he wants from Congress, being the deal-maker he is. The up-side is that he may be willing to cut deals with Democrats also, but it would only work for issues that divide the GOP, for
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Net neutrality isn't (Score:3, Informative)
For those of you who believe that the net neutrality regulations that the FCC are trying to impose actually is what you believe it to be, you should actually go ahead and read the regulations.
Your understanding of what "net neutrality" means and what the FCC is actually doing are different. By reading the regulations you might actually understand why what the FCC is proposing is, well, bad.
It's 2016. You can go read the stuff yourself. Even the preamble to the regulations is full of inaccuracies, half-truths, and outright lies. For example, the FCC tries to say that its current regulations are what made the Internet great - except that the FCC's attempts at regulating the internet have never actually taken effect. Then it gets better.
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Typical Political mis-labeling (Score:4, Informative)
Net Neutrality as proposed is like saying your State has "Right to Work" laws. If you believe those laws give workers Rights, you are grossly mistaken. As GP stated, read what is being proposed and then make up your mind.
If you want another example, what exactly Patriotic about the "Patriot Act"? Yeah, this is not a new political trick.
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Net neutrality _as_ _it's_ _written_ simply ensures that ISPs can't treat traffic differently based on who's paying them. If anything, it doesn't go far enough as it doesn't cover peering agreements, still allowing a kind of non-neutrality.
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I don't understand what you are even trying to say here. So according to you the FCC's current net neutrality regulations are not what net neutrality supporters think it is, so it's good that we just got two guys that oppose net neutrality?
There's the "net neutrality" that we on /. think of, then there's "Net Neutrality(TM)(C)(Pat Pending)" that the FCC and their lobbyists were intent on implementing. Pretty much the only things these two have in common is the name. The latter is what the appointees oppose, and that's a Good Thing(TM).
The FCC version has none of the goodness that Slashdotters think "net neutrality" has. It was a giveaway to political supporters in the major telecommunications/internet/media and a power-grab for government.
I a
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Are you objecting to the FCC's net neutrality regulations because they're too restrictive or because they're too lenient?
Do the new advisers oppose them on the same grounds?
Re:Net neutrality isn't (Score:4, Informative)
Yes, I've actually read the regulations, and frankly their only real problem is that they don't go far enough. I used to be half owner of an ISP in the mid 90's. I was there for the ending of NSFNet, the birth of the commercial backbone, the rise of independent ISPs, and then telecom deregulation and subsiquent consolidation. I know what it meant to be a CLEC when big telecom was handed whatever they want. Net Neutrality is what made the Internet what it is. Walking away from it know, even as patchwork and incomplete as the current regulations are, will be a disaster for consumer. Period.
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Though it is all looking like a non-issue as wireless services are eating everyone's lunch at this point, and if SpaceX steps into the arena with their thousands of mini-com-sats Musk is going to turn around and eat theirs across
Good news everyone! (Score:2)
Soon you'll be able to pay your starving cable company $5 a month of "premium" Youtube access and another $5 for "premium" Netflix access.
America is going to be great again! ;)
Why is that bad? (Score:2)
Why is it bad to be able to pay more for higher speeds to some selected destinations? Overall your cable bill could be lower if you just need browsing speed for most sites but want to have a very fast connection for a handful of streaming video sites you use regularly...
That would actually make 4k streaming practical, for example.
You say that's bad, I say that's progress which is something we've not seen in a while. Under existing laws our network speeds are stagnating, Google is pulling out of fiber now..
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Why is it bad to be able to pay more for higher speeds to some selected destinations?
Because no proposal I have ever heard for "preferred traffic" has ever involved letting me decide what those destinations are.
Overall your cable bill could be lower if you just need browsing speed for most sites but want to have a very fast connection for a handful of streaming video sites you use regularly...
Has your cell bill gone down since carriers implemented data caps? This graphic [huffpost.com] is years old, but please provide literally any evidence that it is not the logical conclusion of such a plan.
That would actually make 4k streaming practical, for example.
What would make 4K streaming practical is for the backhaul to be upgraded to the point where 100mbits/sec down is a de facto standard, with 300mbit/sec remotely affordable. Comcast isn't hurting fo
Why is he pro-media? (Score:2)
Hint: Trump Hates the Media. Therefore... (Score:2)
Why is Trump taking pro-media stance?
Trump just read the riot act [thewrap.com] to the media elite.
On a larger scale, one for the first thing Trump plans to do is to kill US involvement in the TPP, which is pretty much a creation of the media companies [theintercept.com]...
In many ways, all along Trump has shown he is very much against the media industry. So if any one action appears to be FOR the media industry, it means you need to look a lot more closely.
In fact if you look you'll find that "Network Neutrality" was pushed for by the me
Could never really work in meatspace. (Score:2)
Sneakernetting would cut out the crap. Who wouldn't rather hear more about new Lithium Ion battery technology than Poodles Are From Mars?
First, be clear on the terms (Score:2)
You shit all over our internet..... (Score:3)
We are building a better one. Without Your bullshit walled gardens. Without your ads. Without your monitoring. Without your grand regulations. Without your clumsy meddling. Without your consistent need to monetize every damn thing see. Without your little carrier fiefdoms and exclusive hardware monopolies. Without the insanely low barrier of entry that allowed all the dopey phone-addict people who cant think for themselves to flood in and cause exactly this.
You can eavesdrop on your army of buffoons while they try to puzzle out why "just reset the router" is not working anymore. Spy on them while they pay for the privilege of being watched by their allies and overlords while being incessantly attacked by everybody else.
The old guard looks cross about your new hotness bullshit. You've found a way to ass up a simple communications and data moving tool. While you argue over how best to fuck us all over, we may just take our ball and go home. Youtube can kiss my ass. Netflix can fuck itself, and all the ZOMG4KULTRASTREAM24/71000DOLLARTV zombies can have the lot of it.
I'll meet you in the "Unlicensed spectrum".
Offer the ISPs a deal (Score:5, Informative)
Tell the ISPs (Comcast, Verizon, AT&T etc) that all the regulations they dont like will go away but in return all the laws, agreements, regulations and other things all over the USA (at all levels of government) that restrict competition also have to go away.
They get to do whatever they want on their own networks but they dont get the right to prevent someone else from comming in and competing with them.
Here in Australia we have a competitive market for broadband in most parts of the country and because of that, very few (if any) ISPs do the kind of crap they do in the USA.
Re:This is a good thing (Score:5, Insightful)
I find that those who oppose any kind of societal safety net have never had to use the resources of one.
And they never expect to.
This.... is delusional. You will age. You /will/ fall ill. Be it 6 months out of work for a septic knee (like what Tom Brady had), or full disability because nobody wants to hire someone who has to go to doctors' appointments 1/4 of the days out of a month on a regular basis. BAD SHIT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO YOU SOMETIME IN YOUR LIFE THAT YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO PLAN FOR.
I don't like wishing bad things on people. I don't need to. Because they happen anyway.
Against the safety net? Good luck to you. You'll need it.
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BMO
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In this particular case, I'm pretty sure his mom is still his safety net.
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Ah yes, what a glorious future it will be when 90 % of current low to minimum skill jobs are entirely automated and quite a large chunk of normal office jobs as well. Have you not followed the projections on the effects of technology to employment: there is no way there will be jobs for everyone in the future in industrialized nations, because pretty soon we'll reach a point in which a low-skill human is simply inferior/less efficient in most jobs compared
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Pure conservatives/libertarians are not bothered by cancer water: some humans will evolve superior livers to filter the pollution and produce immune offspring, comparable to Kevin Costner evolving gills in water-world. Competition and the Great Market-Place will produce a superior race. Don't let the pesky gov't interface with evolution.
It's Ayn Rand-ism and Social Darwinism. With dog-eat-dog, the superior dog lives and produces better dogs. Mad Max is not a dystopia: it's the human breading field. If you d
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comparable to Kevin Costner evolving gills in water-world.
So you are the guy who actually watched it. People told me someone did, buit I didn't believe them.
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It was always BS. Until I don't have to pay extra through the nose to my ISP in order to be allowed to run an irc server I'll never believe this net neutrality crap was legit.
Good point, although I think most people are probably more concerned with being blocked from running their own mail and web servers. I'm sure there were decent reasons, but I think they are reasons that were decided upon a long time ago and has more to do with getting people to pay business-class ISP fees.
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Actually I run both, and no, I don't have a consulting business.
And, all my VPN profiles for getting around the SMTP block are name "fuckcomcast" because I really do not appreciate their shit.
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Fuck that... they'll steal the nails too.