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It's amazing how guns are always the problem to people who want the big bad government to protect them from their neighbors (who they've never met).
I wish I could afford to contribute, still. I'm a lifer, but broke. At least now that we lost Net Neutrality, I can unsubscribe from DemandProgress, because the rest of their attempted force-of-hand bullshit makes me puke.
I mean.. it's just legal now. Before they did it illegally.
I think this does happen alot actually. This would be less of an issue if these things weren't oligopolies because well if one is slowing down a favourite site you could easily change, but in many places, you got very few options like in rural towns for instance. The below link is not about ISP's but this is an almost esential monopolist doing something crappy because they can. You might say that well you could use bing bro, we have a lot of good search engines. Well in my experience bing is less good at finding things than google.
Read this for example
Live in small town with one ISP, no issues before, no issues yet. Will update you if it changes.
LET should be its own nation. We need unilateral declaration of independence from the internet.
Fuck yeah! We already have a pretty accurate analogue of most nations' parliaments: the Cest Pit.
.let TLD anyone?
This is one one those topics where people hold strong opinions (like often happens in politics) and it's somewhat amusing that the subject moved to NRA so quickly (very American)
Netflix, Facebook, Google and so on are always the loudest whiners against tolls carriers may ask them since they're such a bandwidth burden and I doubt something actually damaging them could ever happen; and in the end we'll be convinced that the battle is for indie innovative webdevs who can't fight back Spotify's hegemony on zero-rating mobile plans
I preferred the Great Berlin Wall of Mexico (wholly financed by Mexico) dramastic meme but this guy drinking from a big orange mug is all the rage right now
much deprived
very wow
There's this French Qwant hyped recently (with a fallback "bang" syntax à la duckduckgo) but it's not quite there yet; it leverages on the European "perception" of "privacy" in the commercial you should find on their homepage as well (at least in the Deutschland/Suisse/Italia region); obviously it supports net neutrality explicitly (well, most States in Europe allegedly support net neutrality, then e.g. zero-rating plans are a thing) since, hey, only Trump and Hitler are against net neutrality. Then again, they received from EIB some 25 million € so yeah they're indie webdevs fighting back monopolies with their own bare hands
Same here and I highly doubt they will do shit about any kind of traffic shaping.
Did you just linked wikipedia as source?
Oh boy, wikipedia is accurate as fuck, in terms of political stuff.
Well nice. I am just glad that everybody can agree to disagree with out this place becoming like the forums in news papers where each tribe is screaming at the top of their lungs at the other tribe.
Not sure about my own politics actually.
We should form a socialist country called LET land please implementing fiscal conservatism so that the credit card isn't maxed and nobody gets completely left behind?
Or, you know, you could just look at the sources referenced on the page for the original content/report.
Scam. Refund plz.
My apologies. I forgot that LET requires scholarly, peer-reviewed sources of information that are recommended by 4 out of 5 dentists.
Your Wikipedia donation has been refunded, please avoid opening a PayPal dispute for any future donations.
Well, I am not going to revalidated these sources.
Sometimes there is a lot of shit/fake stuff linked in wikipedia sources.
If you want to take them for granted, you need to validated all the sources.
I love wiki I learned so much from it.
When I was more of a millenial, I used to look up countries of the worlds on it, different animals, histories of empires and other fun crap like that.
Now I only like computers, other people's computers through the internet, and news.
You just described Vatican City (socialist/charitable, no VAT/low taxes, no sinful riches unless it's for the Church); yet again, you'll have to accept One and Only One Provider
I like vat and taxes actually, I just like them to be used for a surplus especially in the "good growth years" or at least balanced budget because another recession will happen.
Venezuela is calling and telling you that, at least, you should diligently reinvest rather than keeping your money under the mattress or living the bling bling life for a while
Assuming you can get a competitive and efficient service with economics governed by a State, but that's a different chapter
You can't really drive an economy thinking that there will be a recession; the moment you're doing so, you're in the recession and the 1 hundred trillion Zimbabwe dollars you placed in your mattress are worth nothing
Yeah but list seems not very incorrect . Small and western countries at top with little people where direct democracy possible , bigger and autocratic countries/middle east countries are down which is natural . They are relative . It is not like you are better than me . Every country has specially .
USA #1 . If you think otherwise you are wrong, death wrong.
Youtube and millennials, can't go wrong with it
No! China nombaa oneeee
china nombeee ooonwwwwwweeeee
Looks like you’re not wasting time on Friday
THIS iS THE END OF THE INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT
I AM MOVING TO CANADA
I heard Germany is also good.
hahaha, i am getting home, I am really tired of tody at the office
Fuck it, 4:41pm
Welcome to the world where Telecom dominates Everything. (South Korea lacks Net Neutrality too!)
Scam. Chargeback issued. (fixed that for you).
I predict burstable but no continuous broadband speed for all of the connections, except for the well defined additionally paid ones. Yes, you pay for 1Gbps and your connection can burst up to 1Gbps, but you can't effectively use it for anything else except youtube, netflix or whatever package you additionally paid for.
But, that won't be good enough, so those parasites will start offering limited additional packages, like for example 50GB of youtube. If you want another 50 of fast youtube you'll have to pay.
Then, even that won't be good enough and instead of slower speed they'll start showing captive portals towards blocking access altogether, if the user doesn't cough up the money.
But then, when that won't be enough as well, they'll start automatically charging overages instead. You watched 11GB of youtube this month? You'll pay for that 1GB more, at a more expensive rate, for sure.
They'll corner up the market, aggregate, jack up the pricess and shorten the offers.
A significant part of those money is going to go towards the content providers, so they'll shut up and finally this smut, the entertainment industry wins. It profits from legally racketeering people. It shoves content and you have to pay, wheter you like it or not.
PS: Did I forget to mention tracking everyone and injecting targeted isp ads/content?
Yes, all of this "goodness" and you have to pay for it.
It's beyond evil.
Kill'em while they're young.