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Post by slowcomingwarbird on Apr 29, 2024 1:40:11 GMT
Good. It's what keeps Internet service providers from playing favorites controlling traffic to content that isn't theirs, on an Internet that isn't theirs. I'll never forget Ted Cruz calling net neutrality "Obamacare for the Internet", one of the worst analogies ever. But what they clearly don't understand is that it is the advertisement servers in cooperation with "cloudflare" that blocks access to websites or slows bandwidth speeds. Acting as a "traffic light" for the internet. Now with "net neutrality" internet service providers will once again return to the practice of charging extra fees for the amount of data you access beyond a small quota set by the ISP. All of that with the supposed excuse that charging extra for metered data will somehow discourage internet piracy and that "honest" people can just pay extra for internet access based on how much they use because there are a few bad people abusing the internet who often are so small in number that it hardly has any impact at all. It is just an excuse to over charge exorbitant amounts because of some "paper tiger" presented as the real villain that is causing it to cost everyone a lot more extra fees.
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Post by slowcomingwarbird on Apr 29, 2024 1:48:01 GMT
To all those who have not observed a slow-down and wonder why the rule change means anything, I will ask again the question that dlancer has already asked: even if you have seen no slow-downs, why would you want your provider to even have that choice, that power? Technically cloudflare is not an internet service provider but they do have absolute authority to slow your internet access down to 33 kbps or even block internet access to one or more websites or the entire internet. Sometimes for up to a month. Then there are the hackers that launch denial of service attacks or worse. That nothing can be done about because they are in another nation overseas and are out of jurisdiction and out of legal reach.
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Post by uncreative on Apr 29, 2024 3:45:51 GMT
Once again the right is showing that they either have no idea what net neutrality is or they're choosing to misunderstand it.
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Post by Dracula on Apr 29, 2024 4:38:07 GMT
Good. It's what keeps Internet service providers from playing favorites controlling traffic to content that isn't theirs, on an Internet that isn't theirs. I'll never forget Ted Cruz calling net neutrality "Obamacare for the Internet", one of the worst analogies ever. But what they clearly don't understand is that it is the advertisement servers in cooperation with "cloudflare" that blocks access to websites or slows bandwidth speeds. Acting as a "traffic light" for the internet. Now with "net neutrality" internet service providers will once again return to the practice of charging extra fees for the amount of data you access beyond a small quota set by the ISP. All of that with the supposed excuse that charging extra for metered data will somehow discourage internet piracy and that "honest" people can just pay extra for internet access based on how much they use because there are a few bad people abusing the internet who often are so small in number that it hardly has any impact at all. It is just an excuse to over charge exorbitant amounts because of some "paper tiger" presented as the real villain that is causing it to cost everyone a lot more extra fees. Cloudflare is a CDN, content delivery network. It's what you use for your website so that worldwide access to your website is quicker for everyone, and you can turn it on or off as you like. It has nothing to do with connecting you to the Internet, let alone "slowing your internet access down", and they wouldn't be in business if using them for your website only makes your website's performance worse. Net neutrality never had anything to do with rising Internet costs so I don't get what you're referring to regarding "once again return..."
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