Demise of Net Neutrality

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Is not all about money, but rather about power. "Those with power have seen that access to uncontrolled information and the ability of people to network is a bigger threat to their power, privilege and wealth than any bombs, guns or protests rallies. "

^^^^^Aint no lie. Glad I do not use mobile device to access internet.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2148301/ ... a-faq.html

that the reason the founding fathers put freedom of speech before the right to bare arms

Popular movements have succeeded in recent history before the internet (Civil Rights movement, anti-Vietnam-War movement, etc). People will eventually organize to protest on a scale sufficient to revive the internet, presumably within the next couple centuries (assuming civilization survives that long).

In the meantime, I will train carrier pigeons to fly over FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and poop on his head.

as pogo said, "we have met the enemy, and he is us." IOW, instead of going out and voting in our best interest, we vote to stick it to somebody else that we look down on. and so we were largely fooled into voting a bunch of sociopathic glad handers into the vest pockets of their wealthy contributors and an oligarchy cum corporatist cabal in control over all of us.

...And the American Corporotacracy/Monopoly fails yet again to aim for an ambitious, better future and instead aims for low quality, high price, anti-innovative, no-other-choice options for the masses. Verizon & Comcast just became the gods of the internet.

It's stupid on so many levels. The next Instagram or Facebook won't be happening in the USA if this crap becomes permanent. The American internet will end up like the auto industry in the 1970's. And, as the title of this thread says, there's no way the throttling isn't going to get political.

I don't get why there isn't a huge battle going on between Netflix/Amazon/Google, and Comcast/Verizon. Maybe it hasn't started yet? Couldn't Comcast tell Amazon that they need to turn over 90% of their profits or be cut off from 90% of their users?

the people slavering for our descent to a banana republic are within shouting distance of their goal.

freedom and ignorance do not long coexist.

What could happen.

This could actually be pretty good news, in hindsight. If it causes a mass exodus from the internet, and the development of a decentralised alternative using wireless mesh networking...