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What Is Net Neutrality?

Amongst discussion of internet2 this may answer some peoples questions

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Gumpster : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

Gumpster

24 votes NegativePositive

182 days ago...

Why is this rated 4? what kind of idiots are watching this, this is serious and you`s aren`t taking it like that.

revoke : LVL 28: VP 3.7: said:

revoke

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181 days ago...

communist...

XxNightmare : LVL 26: VP 3.5: said:

XxNightmare

0 votes NegativePositive

177 days 7 hours ago...

We need obama.

Tada : LVL 40: VP 4.8: said:

Tada

10 votes NegativePositive

177 days 7 hours ago...

^With Obama you`re not even going to have money to pay for internet within a few years, same goes for McCain.

fqlynx : LVL 22: VP 3.1: said:

fqlynx

13 votes NegativePositive

177 days 5 hours ago...

No f*&king problem, if ISP`s start to restrict access, people will move to direct peer to peer internet connections and possibly even satellite internet access (we don`t need to stick to western ISP`s - we could just get the russians to give us access). In any case, the internet is network of computers in its basic form, how the hell are they gonna stop us from connecting to each other, especially with wireless technology and advanced encryption?

PS - If you know hacking, hack the sh&t out of those who want to restrict internet access!

yes4me : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

yes4me

7 votes NegativePositive

177 days 1 hour ago...

Great. I am glad I learned something today.

Cipher : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

Cipher

0 votes NegativePositive

176 days 21 hours ago...

Many Asian and African countries do not have net neutrality. I know because i have been there. youtube and other vids sharing website like spikedhumor are offlimit. because the government afraid people will be releasing information to create up-rise or revolutions and stuff like that, it`s stupid.

BuddyWhatsHisName : LVL 11: VP 2: said:

BuddyWhatsHisName

9 votes NegativePositive

176 days 11 hours ago...

Anyone who votes less than 5 probably owns or benefits from this already - or perhaps is just the greatest hole of all asses (if you know what I mean).

Something_For_Nothing : LVL 25: VP 3.4: said:

Something_For_Nothing

0 votes NegativePositive

175 days 22 hours ago...

if u have ever been to places like china and try to look up tianamen square stuff i garentee you, you aint going to find anything.

djkoz78 : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

djkoz78

1 votes NegativePositive

175 days 21 hours ago...

I saw another vid about something like this on how the internet providers were trying to change it like cable tv you have to pay for websites like tv channels or something like that

trancefreek : LVL 26: VP 3.5: said:

trancefreek

1 votes NegativePositive

175 days 21 hours ago...

Goddammit, I want to see Pee Drinking Whores Part XII, why won`t Time Warner Cable let me indulge my fantasy? Oh yes, now I remember, Net Neutrality. Assholes...

fall_ark : LVL 24: VP 3.3: said:

fall_ark

0 votes NegativePositive

175 days 19 hours ago...

^^^ Only if you don`t know what a proxy is.
Partly the reason why there are so many Chinese hackers... sorry, bad joke.

The Great Firewall (look it up in wiki if you don`t know what it is) seems to have evolved a bit, too. Now it`s not only imposibble (save through proxy) to access and view foreign sites including sensitive keywords from in China, but also impossible to view Chinese websites with such contexts from out of the country. Basically the filter now works both ways, which means you guys can`t visit certain Chinese websites that are perfectly viewable by people here.

It`s a big what the fuck moment for internet users here, you know, it just doesn`t make any sense.

Karmakaze : LVL 25: VP 3.4: said:

Karmakaze

0 votes NegativePositive

174 days 2 hours ago...

Proxies and peer-to-peer can`t prevent this type of thing, simply because the ISP blocks or degrades access to any address it wants, whether that be Google, or your mate down the road.

In fact as the video says it`s already happening in the US:

http://torrentfreak.com/verizon-bans-p2p-streaming-services-and-onli

ne-gaming/

Now of course even the Chinese aren`t stupid enough to go all the way so they don`t block all IP`s except the ones they approve, they simply ban the IP`s they disapprove of. But as I said, that`s easily reversible. In fact your firewall on your computer can do the exact same thing - its not even hard.

So the only reason ISP`s aren`t doing this at the moment is that there is no financial incentive. Google is not gonna pay an ISP to allow access, and as such it would only take one ISP to advertise that they are unfiltered and all the others will get hammered.

The real problem is in markets where there is only one provider - then the audience is captive and the ISP can do what it wants... which is exactly what is starting to happen such as with Verizon.

So short answer, nothing you can do (proxies, peer-to-peer) can prevent or get around this, short of using your vote to make the politicians take notice.

Edited to add:
By the way, don`t think that this is an ISP issue only. Consider Google and the other search engines - they can accomplish pretty much the same thing by determining what results you get to see. If you don`t know the site exists, it doesn`t matter if your ISP doesn`t block or degrade it, you are still unlikely to find it, and thus that site is likely to go out of business.

ReX : LVL 20: VP 2.9: said:

ReX

0 votes NegativePositive

78 days 3 hours ago...

google itself is already doing this* by using a restricted(less links) dbase when traffic is way too busy.

*making access painfully slow or not working or displaying at all

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