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the quality or state of being neutral : a condition of being uninvolved in contests or controversies between others or of refraining from taking part on either side of such contest or controversy
originally posted by: ABNARTY
a reply to: Aazadan
Awesome post, thanks
I never made the TV/internet connection but it's true. I know so many folks who just do their entertainment on line versus TV. I know I would if I could. I live in a rural area, internet is satellite so no streaming.
A point I cannot get by is the opportunity the telcoms had to simply improve their product. They could have charged a lot more and never spent anything on overhead.
I wonder what the possibilities are for start ups to provide service? Y'know, competition. Without the hardware in place, it sounds kind of impossible
originally posted by: Aazadan
a reply to: Semicollegiate
Kind of, you're getting into an issue of semantics. Net Neutrality is basically a rule that says data is data, you can't discriminate one type against another or prioritize one type over another. Essentially that packets are to be treated neutral.
Basically Net Neutrality says that data is no longer just data, instead there are multiple types of data and that depending on who that data is going to/from it can be sped up or slowed down.
originally posted by: Semicollegiate
"Net Neutrality" (lie, its the opposite of neutral) removes all motivation to innovate or build better internet hardware.
originally posted by: interupt42
originally posted by: Semicollegiate
"Net Neutrality" (lie, its the opposite of neutral) removes all motivation to innovate or build better internet hardware.
How does net Neutrality remove motivation to innovate or build better internet hardware?
Here is a good entertaining overview of the issue
originally posted by: Semicollegiate
The government made cable TV into a monopoly.
There should be several, or at least a few, competing companies in every market. That makes the price go down through competition and innovation. More companies means more innovation and more infrastructure.
"Net Neutrality" (lie, its the opposite of neutral) removes all motivation to innovate or build better internet hardware.
Thanks to the FCC and a lot of lobbying (or maybe not much since the primary telecom lobbier was named head of the FCC) this rule is no longer in place.
If one network speeds up their service they can offer their customers a faster upload/download speed but they can't guarantee the other networks will support it.
What needs to happen is we need another federal level initiative to build a proper network and then we need to write the ISP's into a contract that we don't let them back out of.
originally posted by: Semicollegiate
It puts the government in charge of how the internet will operate. The biggest players will lobby the government to get what they want, which is control of the internet, and the small players will have higher fixed costs to comply with the rules.
The big players will spend money on lobbying rather than hardware or research and development.
That is what happens when the government gets involved, every time.
originally posted by: Semicollegiate
a reply to: Aazadan
Thanks to the FCC and a lot of lobbying (or maybe not much since the primary telecom lobbier was named head of the FCC) this rule is no longer in place.
That sound awful. Could you tell me what the rule is?
I know its bad and should not exist, even though I don't know what it is.
originally posted by: Semicollegiate
Monopolies make it harder to bypass, and rules like Net Neutrality are fertilizer for monopolies.
I'm glad you agree that cable TV is a monopoly.
The TV providers do not like this. Their own internet network is being used to distribute their television programming more efficiently than they can distribute it themselves over the cable TV wires.
Net Neutrality offers the ability for someone to compete with an existing technology.
By repealing it the telecoms can shut down all packets carrying data on TV shows and force people to instead go back to the old way of getting the TV show from them.
Net Neutrality provides incentive to innovate and create better hardware.
...and when they were tried [data caps] they failed spectacularly. Everything from people canceling service, to a MUCH higher rate of unauthorized network access using other peoples data, to crippling backlash on business as people could no longer use websites