@CMC Scootaloo  
I mean it didn’t get gutted though. Only rolled back to the 2015 standard so that instead of the Federal Communications Commision being the ones regulating it, it’s infact the Federal Trade Commision.
 
Here’s what I mean.

https://stopthefcc.net/?source=demandprogress
 

 
On December 14th, three FCC commissioners ignored the will of the public and voted to gut net neutrality protections — despite polling showing that 83% of Americans opposed the repeal.
 
We still have a chance to stop the FCC, though. Net neutrality champion Senator Ed Markey is leading the charge in the Senate with a resolution that will overrule the FCC. A companion resolution from Representative Mike Doyle will be introduced in the House.
 
As the oversight body for the FCC, Congress can overturn this massive and illegitimate giveaway to the telecom industry. Since the FCC voted to end net neutrality, 50 senators have already pledged to reverse the FCC’s order!
 
The resolution is now guaranteed a floor vote, at which point we need just one more senator for it to pass. With all 49 Democrats and Republican Susan Collins supporting the resolution, we need just one more Republican. As polls show an overwhelming majority of Republican voters oppose the FCC’s order, and with more and more Republican lawmakers expressing skepticism about the FCC’s vote, we have a very strong shot of getting this through the Senate.
 

 
https://stopthefcc.net/?source=demandprogress
 

 
The link can also be found on my userpage. Go and contact the Senate now to kill another attempt to control and censor the Internet!

Sad thing is this is still faster than my internet when it is exaggerating. (took an hour to load a 6 minute video on low quality earlier)

BTW, This looks nearly exactly-the-same as the Eye of Sauron straight from Lord of the Rings:
 

 
… What am I doing?

@The Smiling Pony
 
This is like, sad. Am I blind?
 
But what do I expect on planet earth - Heaven? Partially, at least.

@BarryFromMars  
One reason they’re doing it is because people are finally actually using the service (the bandwidth) they pay for, in large part thanks to the increasing popularity of things like Netflix and Amazon’s own thing, plus full game downloads and whatnot.
 
Another reason is simply because they can. A few ISPs in the US control the market, and they’ve spotted a new way to make money: extort content providers.

@DudeManGuy
 
Is this why I’ve been thinking of that exact scenario you talked about in recent days? (Mobsters smashing up stuff to those who don’t pay.)
 
@BK_Leonidas
 
Yeah, It was a video that showed up as an advertisement.
 
@The Smiling Pony
 
I’ll say this: There is enough for need but it is not so for greed. But does this really apply to the situation? Then again anyone trying to monopolize stuff - Are they doing it for any real reason? Or is it an ego thing? “I’M BIGGER THAN YOU!” Pride comes before a fall!
 
The one who doesn’t serve all the rest is not so great.

In essence, the ISPs that already have a monopoly over their market are pissed that people are actually using the service they’re selling.
 
So their plan to stop this is to charge content providers (like websites) for access to “premium bandwidth” to their customers (ie. the bandwidth they’re already charging you for).
 
This means that betwee two companies with competing products that make heavy use of bandwidth, the one that pays up to the ISP will be the winner, as the other one will be stuck with “non-premium” bandwidth. This obviously has the potential of killing startups outright, kill off current non-big name competitors, and screw over every current online business regardless.
 
Furthermore, internet packages can be split by what premium bandwith-paying sites the customer wants to get that premium bandwidth for. So you’ll have your “starter pack”, where your advertised 50mb line is reall just 20mb, and you “cinephile” package, that has Netflix accessing your full 50mb (assuming Netflix pays up, ofc), your “gamer package”, etc.
 
Nobody wants this except the monopoly ISPs and the people they pay to make this sort of crap legal.

@BarryFromMars  
Really? Because this was my introduction to the concept of net neutrality.

@DudeManGuy  
I think that’s the best way to describe this whoole net-neutrality thing. The problem with American ISP is that they think they are big and bad enough that they don’t need to play by the rules, or more precisely, the government are giving them advantages while screwing everyone else over.
 
(I am living in Canada, so I am trying my best to understand thing happening down south of the border)

@BarryFromMars  
More like reinforce Time Warner and Comcast’s near-monopoly on the American ISP market by allowing them to cripple sites they don’t like or that can’t pay extra. Kind of like mobsters making a store pay “protection money” or else they’re going to smash up stuff.

@Background Pony #DF48
 
I did see a video on this whole FCC Net Neutrality thing in the last week. It was based in Philadelphia and was a stop-motion video with most people sitting on toilets, while the people trying to destroy net neutrality were on office chairs and a jingle of “F-C~~C, Don’t destroy our net neu-tral-i-ty” went along (though I think I misquoted the jingle?)
 
I gotta admit I don’t know a lot about this but here we are again on subject of some big dumb selfish beast like told of in the book of Revelations, from the looks of it? I read the comments here, And what are they trying to do ~~ Start up something like a Fascist regime on the internet?

@Supmandude  
You, too.

@Background Pony #DF48
 
You anons all look alike…

@Background Pony #DF48
 
Whoops I did!

@deathsia  
Did you quote the wrong person? I didn’t read my own, but I thought it was in favor of net neutrality and against the FCC.
 
(I know it seems stupid to not even read what I linked, but I was trying to do it in response to the other guy to show that it takes absolutely no intelligence on a topic to copy and paste a link. :P)

@Background Pony #DF48
 
I barely read the first paragraph before i was able to sum it up as one thing:
 
“Fluffy puff oh this is for the good of everyone!” Bulshit. It’s the SAME line we hear over and over again from lobbyist funded websites,goverment funded sites, and ISPs.
 
It’s the kind of bulshit that is meant to lull us into a false sense of security, make us think this will make things better, and then when turns out they were full of shit as they always are, they point the finger at the group who was TRYING to prevent this from happening in the first place saying: “It’s their fault!” while at the same time getting that nice fat paycheck they were waiting on for posting the non-sense BS they were paid to say.
 
Media Politics are being retarded I tell you…:/

@DudeManGuy  
I may have said this before, but that is a fucking good username. :3

@Background Pony #EDB8  
If you think eliminating net neutrality will benefit any company other than the two biggest ISPs, you’re a fool.

@Background Pony #EDB8  
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2014/09/10/kill-net-neutrality-kill-small-business-growth/

@Background Pony #163A  

@RIG  
Shame we can’t tag your comments and block them.

We’re fucked.

@RIG  
Oh boo hoo, you don’t need to anounce it to everyone.