Current Events > Right on the heels of Net Neutrility dying Comcast

(+) Yeah! (+)

immediately starts to fuck everybody over

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/comcast-quietly-drops-promise-not-to-charge-tolls-for-internet-fast-lanes/

For years, Comcast has been promising that it won't violate the principles of net neutrality, regardless of whether the government imposes any net neutrality rules. That meant that Comcast wouldn't block or throttle lawful Internet traffic and that it wouldn't create fast lanes in order to collect tolls from Web companies that want priority access over the Comcast network.

This was one of the ways in which Comcast argued that the Federal Communications Commission should not reclassify broadband providers as common carriers, a designation that forces ISPs to treat customers fairly in other ways. The Title II common carrier classification that makes net neutrality rules enforceable isn't necessary because ISPs won't violate net neutrality principles anyway, Comcast and other ISPs have claimed.

But with Republican Ajit Pai now in charge at the Federal Communications Commission, Comcast's stance has changed. While the company still says it won't block or throttle Internet content, it has dropped its promise about not instituting paid prioritization.

Instead, Comcast now vaguely says that it won't "discriminate against lawful content" or impose "anti-competitive paid prioritization." The change in wording suggests that Comcast may offer paid fast lanes to websites or other online services, such as video streaming providers, after Pai's FCC eliminates the net neutrality rules next month.

This is only the beginning, Not only will you be forced to pay for a Youtube package, you'll be forced to pay for what videos you want to watch instead of having access to everything on there with your only limit being what you can put in the search bar.
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Sorry, can't read this anymore because I haven't bought the "gaming websites" tier on my package.

Remember Tsarist Russia? This is the shit theyd pull. Eventually that attitude backfired.
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If they manage to pass their poor and middle class killing tax cuts today, it's pretty much a lock they'll be able to pass their shitty NN killer and then when things do get bad they'll immediately start blaming Democrats and Liberals since that's obviously working and Trump will roll out the tweets, fake vides and rallies saying everything is fine and facts are once again fake news.
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tremain07 posted...

If they manage to pass their poor and middle class killing tax cuts today, it's pretty much a lock they'll be able to pass their shitty NN killer and then when things do get bad they'll immediately start blaming Democrats and Liberals since that's obviously working and Trump will roll out the tweets, fake vides and rallies saying everything is fine and facts are once again fake news.

Would they even be able to see his tweets? Anyways, glad I don't have Comcast as my ISP, though I'm worried Cox may try this in the future (Though it seems at least their track record seems to be a bit cleaner than most of the other ISPs) if the other US ISPs decide to follow Comcast...
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