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Sep 20, 2017
10:09:19am

DapperDan All-American

It was smart of the ISPs to go with this angle. Get's lots of people to support

them because they think with their party even though the policies will only hurt them.

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DapperDan

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There are basically two sides to the net neutrality argument

DapperDan

9/20/17 10:02am

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MMCougIII

9/20/17 10:03am

Nope, there's only one take on any political argument.

sgriff

9/20/17 10:06am

Bottom line is that understanding net neutrality isn't a simple case of putting

TaiJuan

9/20/17 10:07am

I am surprised at how quickly net neutrality became political.

Nathanael Greene

9/20/17 10:07am

It was smart of the ISPs to go with this angle. Get's lots of people to support

DapperDan

9/20/17 10:09am

I say this as someone who has some concerns about both, philosophically. I don't

TaiJuan

9/20/17 10:15am

The Texas example is actually a good one. In order to create a free market for energy, the government HAD to step in

jaromp

9/20/17 10:27am

Help an idiot understand

jkccoug

9/20/17 10:16am

What is the problem that net neutrality of fixing?

9/20/17 10:17am

It prevents a deal facto utility from charging you more to use a Netflix branded

TaiJuan

9/20/17 10:21am

Since net neutrality has been how the internet has operated since day 1 and

DapperDan

9/20/17 10:21am

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MMCougIII

9/20/17 10:42am

Because companies were trying to implement things net neutrality will fix

DapperDan

9/20/17 10:48am

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MMCougIII

9/20/17 10:56am

Comcast, Verizon, others started throttling connections when they detected that customers would access Netflix or Amazon

jaromp

9/20/17 11:06am

This is one of the biggest problems and I don't understand how anyone

9/20/17 11:09am

RE: What specific examples actually occurred or was it all theoretical?

DapperDan

9/20/17 11:07am

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MMCougIII

9/20/17 11:16am

If bandwidth is an issue charge bandwidth hogs. Comcast is content to let you

TaiJuan

9/20/17 11:18am

Because they sold you bandwidth. You pay them for 100 mb/s. You should be able to use that bandwidth.

jaromp

9/20/17 11:22am

It actually affected my business

GenkiLawyer

9/20/17 12:58pm

A lot has changed and now ISPs are seeing additional $$ opportunities and/or

jkccoug

9/20/17 10:49am

Well, giving power to other countries hostile to the US is not something nerds

NSFW

9/20/17 10:25am

Expain how that would occur please. This is genuine curriosty BTW.

sgriff

9/20/17 10:32am

Wut

DapperDan

9/20/17 10:36am

Not smart for work?

shimmy

9/20/17 11:25am

Thanks for stating my opinion in a format that won't get deleted.

9/20/17 10:26am

No neutral position on net neutrality, huh.

Rize Alloyal

9/20/17 11:29am

I suppose ignorant is a position one could have

DapperDan

9/20/17 11:43am

Bears beets Battlestar Galactica

NVCougar

9/20/17 12:10pm

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