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

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Sep 20, 2017
11:22:27am

jaromp All-American

That's not what it was about, anyway, regardless of the excuse they gave.

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jaromp

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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?

Freddie Cougar

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

CavemanCougar

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.

CavemanCougar

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

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