For only $49.99 get unlimited access to "The rest of the web!" Only Facebook, Google, and Youtube come baseline with your $149.99 10Mbps access!

This is pretty much it. Imagine paying $1 for every image you load on FA for example, with the only requirement by your Internet provider being that they tell you about it first, even if it's super-tiny text in the bottom of a random email. It's pretty gross... :c

Is there anything I can do to protest it as a non US citizen? I feel like me phoning congress like the sites suggest won't do anything...

even if a US citizen phones their congressmen i'd heard of people being practically laughed at and told they're gonna vote the same way they voted before and won't change their mind.

Uuughhhh, that's horrible.

This, the FCC has explicitly stated it doesn't give a fuck what the public thinks.
Which strangely has me feeling somewhat powerless

Just imagine if EA provided your internet.

Or you know, what search functions will be like when COMCAST is running it.

Ohhhhhh goooooooddddddddd

Nobody really knows, honestly, but the most LIKELY outcome that I see is that ending NN would easily allow ISPs to block any site with "adult content". What's rated as adult content is completely up to the ISP, but the filtration would be done automatically and under the guise of "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!" To access it, you'd have to call or opt-in for the right to view said content (which is what they tried in England). Essentially, they bank on people being too embarrassed to say "I want to look at porn." or would charge a fee to allow access to "risque" sites.

A lot of ISPs are also experimenting with data caps, too. The likely scenario is that fastlaned sites don't contribute to your cap but others do, so browsing FA would eat into your month bandwidth (like a mobile device) and then charge you overages. Desktop sites eat up a hell of a lot more bandwidth than mobile ones and this would hit people really hard.

Especially people who watch HD movies (goodbye, 4K) or download games (especially, again, with 4k assets).

Yeah as much as I'm fearing the results of this, I still ultimately work with .jpgs. I can only imagine streamers/video creators/musicians having even more problems.

A large swath of people in this country only have Netflix, porn, online gaming, etc as a respite from their daily lives. Maybe it's optimistic, but to take even that away *I hope* is a bridge too far. NOBODY bloody wants this.

Internet providers want it. Money is the only thing on their mind, humanity and ethics be damned.

The standards of quality will also drop off over time. Ping rates will slowly start to climb, downloads will never quite get faster... and companies will do things in subtle ways to make it seem like they're making improvements. Gaming perks, more "boost" downloads, etc.

This is what Comcast does right now. I'm on a 75Mbit download plan but they have a "boost" package the add on which can up your downloads to 240Mbit under certain circumstances. So that's what they'll continue to do. Any progress or improvements will just be sold and packaged to consumers under add-ons instead of the natural progression we get now. And they'll blame it on websites like Netflix that use too much data. Because that's why they have to cap you. Netflix and Hulu are "hurting" consumers. I know this to be true because they've already used that argument, which is partly what lead to current Net Neutrality being what it is.

my upload speed is like... 1.2 Mbps.
I'm not terribly thrilled at the prospect of it becoming even more trash.

My upload speed is 12 Mbit. That's terrible, especially for 2017. If I had 1.2Mbit I'd be near crippled.

Isn't there anything that can be done?

Nope, not unless the world's citizens continue to flex and stay on top of it.

CONSTANT bitching. I know it seems stupid, but the more people make a scene (like with the Starwars Battlefront and things like it) the more they'll be impacted and the more people qill pay attention

there's a reason my avi's a floppy disk, bruh ;p

Yeeeep, same speed here. :/

Weirdly enough, Comcast supports Net Neutrality. Considering that they have those bad practices, I wonder what's in it for them?

http://corporate.comcast.com/comcas.....inkId=45007092

Comcast says they do... but their actions are anything but.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/comc.....231808530.html

They've done a lot of things which are explicitly anti-net neutrality, despite claiming they support it. They mostly have it listed so they can shut up supporters of net neutrality by going "See? We support it!" and then do the opposite behind the scenes.

Don't you guys do the same thing just on political content?

you know how much adult content i see on twitter?
its insane and most of it is from japan, granted you have to have the filter off.

Its gonna suck. Im not computer smart, hope it gets fucked

I think it's greed, pure and simple. The cable cord cutters are hurting the telecoms' bottom line and streaming video services are eating their lunch.
They intend to make it back by tacking tons of micro-fees onto your monthly bill.

I'm thinking they'll start by selling "premium" speeds to certain sites for extra fees and disguise it as a feature.
"Boost your Netflix bandwidth to support 8K for an extra +$3/month! Hulu premium quality for +$2! Crunchyroll hi def bandwidth for +$1!"

Who knows where it'll eventually lead.

Comcast already charges for the right to view HD TV. They'll apply the same logic to streaming services. Throttle their bandwidth so you never get over 720p, and if you want to see things higher, you'll need to subscribe to HD Internet+ or some shit. Net throttling is something they've been doing for years. This will just give them a price tag to put on it.

YUP! The bottom line for us consumers is, "Get out your wallets and bend over." :\

God, I wish I could run for office. Like even a local thing like Governor of my one state. I would fight for a government funded internet under Title Regulations even if the FCC doesn't bother with it.

It wouldn't matter. Right now, the FCC is arguing that local and state municipalities don't have the right to draft their own rules because of interstate commerce. So the Federal government is trying to stay states can't override or draft rules to change things because it violates other rules. Right now, we need higher powers to put their foot down, but the GOP majority is for axing it. Unless it changes on a Federal level we're currently fucked.

The best thing you can do at this point is encourage people to vote. Get people registered, get people interest in politics and how it impacts them, and tell them to vote their asses off in 2018. Turn the tide to politicians who put people before corporations.

Violent uprising is the only option? Got it.

Sad thing is you're correct. The more shit like this continues, the closer it's going to get to the point where blood's going to have to be spilt in order for there to be a real change.

But that's the problem; most of the people in politics don't put people before corporations. The ones who genuinely do are laregly outnumbered by the ones who don't; the ones who're corrupt as they come.

Pretty much this. No one thinks voting matters until it's too late... Except it isn't quite over yet - all the politicians in office voting in a way we don't want them to? Vote them out on re-election.

It's a shame Congress members have no term limits; funny how they're the ones who would have to change that...

Would peer to peer networks like Zeronet work? It's a decentralized network that ISPs can't monitor. It's pretty early, but it came out at the right time.

It's honestly a wonder how net neutrality's still around when you consider the amount of times these greedy fucks have tried to put a stop to it...

Land of the Free, eh?

only if you have a shit ton of cash

Land of the Free. Insert 25 cents to continue.

"Freedom costs a buck o' five..."

I'm actually feeling like it won't pass, as this has been attempted a couple times before and those previous time had big sites stepping in to stop it. At worst case scenario I can see a bunch of rioting happening around the country among some other things.

It'll mostly will never happen period.