seanfu Posted July 16, 2009 Report Share Posted July 16, 2009 Internert Neutrality is at stake. That means the end of cheap site production and freedom. FCC control. Check the video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontcareaboutmyid Posted July 16, 2009 Report Share Posted July 16, 2009 The internet neutrality has been at stake since 2006 (or 5) no new news. The main worry is that a provider like att, would block microsoft sites because of their partnership with apple and vice versa (att blocking connections from microsoft product users to apple and att sites.) its a quick and dirty example but it leads to why not to worry. Capitalism. You want the people to have access to your product. Without access you shrink your market share which means less money. So don't overly worry yourself about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanfu Posted July 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2009 Yeah, and what if I chose to start a blog and it runs me 500 dollars a month starting? Radio broadcasting used to be free because noone has ownership of air waves. But now you know what happens when you broadcast a radio broadcast that doesn't have millions backing it and FCC approved? You have radio "piracy" The internet taking this step is by no way mild or neutral. One step gets the momentum flowing for another step and another till we have 100 major sites like myspace and watered down youtube as cable would have channels, and free speech sites such as blogs and alternative media disappear. What was an every way medium, and the last of its kind, would then be a damn near 1 way medium. The comes FCC regulation, one more step into a totalitarian state by America so we can "protect our children" from naughty words and sex and make a "better" internet. The second we introduce the internet as a utility we are done with our free independant internet state. That is MY point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontcareaboutmyid Posted July 17, 2009 Report Share Posted July 17, 2009 First, any kind of credible site already takes thousands in programming, production, and bandwidth costs. Things like blogger and blogging network sites are first and foremost advertising platforms for the company that provides their use and are nothing close to credible media or news. Second, any kind of legislation that would affect advertising revenue to such network blogging sites is already being fought tooth and nail by the company lobbyists. Once again capitalism is going to prevent any kind of bad happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanfu Posted July 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2009 First, any kind of credible site already takes thousands in programming, production, and bandwidth costs. Things like blogger and blogging network sites are first and foremost advertising platforms for the company that provides their use and are nothing close to credible media or news. Second, any kind of legislation that would affect advertising revenue to such network blogging sites is already being fought tooth and nail by the company lobbyists. Once again capitalism is going to prevent any kind of bad happening. I disagree, but I don't think we're gonna get anywhere just going back and forth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontcareaboutmyid Posted July 17, 2009 Report Share Posted July 17, 2009 For those interested have some links on the whole thing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality http://www.savetheinternet.com/ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/02/technology/02fcc.html?_r=2 and the one that matters for right now any kind of law that actually makes it out of the house or the senate against net neutrality has to get passed Obama. Now the people against net neutrality actually have one main argument that we should all be aware of and does need to be addressed in some form, and that is the shrinking amount of bandwidth. File sharing software takes up a TON of bandwidth, along with the argument that sites that provide video content, such as youtube, are taking up a massive amount of bandwidth because of the size of files and amount of traffic they deal in. If a solution to the bandwidth allocation and use isn't solved you're going to see very slow, to non existent, connection speed and load times. And of course we're not going to get anywhere. This is a mma sim site, not a debate about net neutrality site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanfu Posted July 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2009 And of course we're not going to get anywhere. This is a mma sim site, not a debate about net neutrality site. That's fairly douchey, I was trying to spread awareness. And by the way there's actually a "debate about net neutrality site"? Dude, you should've posted a link to that too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 17, 2009 Report Share Posted July 17, 2009 That's fairly douchey. BEST. QUOTE. EVER. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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