Opinions on the FCC decision?

So until the FCC voted and made its decision today, I didn't know that they were only repealing legislation that happened after 2015. I thought they were going to fuck up the whole internet, as did everyone else. But there was not ONE SINGLE DETAIL ANYWHERE as to the fact that they were rolling back post-2015 stuff. NOTHING ON THAT was anywhere. What the hell? Fucking news and media.

You were lied to. By Reddit, by MSM, by Tumblr, even by Sup Forums (*butthurt Euros). Pai himself said it. This isn't the end of the internet as we know it. You'll probably barely even notice a difference.

>B-But Pai will spy on me while I'm fapping to my slow loading porn!
The government already was spying on your masturbation habits. Now your ISP will spy on your masturbation habits. Not much of a difference there, eh? And don't act like slow-loading porn is a world ending thing.

"Net neutrality was introduced in 1996. What took place in 2015 was the reclassification from title 1 to title 2. The reason for reclassification was the ongoing problem of ISPs providing monopolies blackmailing and throttling smaller companies and damaging public access."

Thoughts?

>B-But the internet will cost MONIES now!
The internet will practically be a part of your electric bill now? This is a poorfag issue, and the only way to solve that would be, oh, I don't know, getting a job. As for hard working middle class people who are actually responsible for their money, this issue is overall very minor. And even if the "packs" thing is true, those prices won't be nearly as exorbitant as Reddit is making them out to be. Relax.

Of course Pai could have been lying. One would not have known at the time.

Apparently the prices aren't going to get more expensive anyway? Also why are you getting mad at a hypothetical person?

I wonder how many people believe we're talking about 1996 instead of 2015. Maybe this is what is causing the mass confusion?

>B-But Sup Forums and all my favorite streaming sites will shut down!
>B-But Sup Forums will be blocked in America!!
No it won't. What a silly thing to even imply. You really think all ISPs are going to look at an anime image board and think "oh, this is a really dangerous and non-innovative website" and immediately shut them down? As for the streaming sites, it's unlikely they'll actually be shut down or blocked by force, but even if they do, they can just make way for new ones.

A lot of conversation about whether or not we'll lose access or have paywalls for specific sites but what do you guys think about the physical infrastructure side of things? Do you think ISPs and other companies will be more competitive?

I'm responding to very common fearmongering complaints with the most likely scenario of all this. Also keep in mind that this repeal isn't an "effective immediately" thing. It's going to slowly ooze in over time.

We should honestly get rid of all internet regulations all together.

I would pay more to get godtier ping on my vidya desu

that wasn't done on accident. conflating the notion of a neutral network with 2015 regulations was done on purpose by pro-NN side

nothing will change they repealed something that didn't even take effect

we dodged a massive bullet
it would've been the end of grassroots underground right wing conversation

streaming sites and VOIP are going to be the #1 and #2 things throttled by ISP's (as they were before 2015) in order to extort money out of the sites it all comes down to what competes with things your isp offers on the side. Your cable company often offers both landline telephone and international calling packages (which Skype, Discord, Teamspeak, etc are ways to get around paying for so they see them as competition), and cable television packages which Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, HBO Now compete with.

Now why would they let their competitors be unimpeded unless law restricted them from doing that?

ISP's aren't a competitive market. You will have probably 1 cable provider and 1 dsl provider per town. The dsl is a lot slower than the cable so for a lot of people.. they have all of 1 real option.. their 1 local cable company.

No, not at all, because your local government gave 1 cable company a monopoly to dig and bury cables under the ground. Repealing those local government regulations wasn't a part of the FCC decision.

>everyone else
Only low information leftists didn’t bother to find out what was happening before artistically screeching about it.

Some streaming sites treat their video display like YouTube does, same format and all. Right now I let it sit for an hour to load and buffer. I don't understand how now will be THAT much different.

Uh.. most people can just hit play and stream in HD right now, what's your isp and what's your speed?

But yeah if things start being throttled we're going to be looking at a lot of buffering, for Netflix you can't really do that it doesn't buffer, so it'll just be unusable unless they change it do where instead of streaming a movie or show you download it. You'd probably need to set it do buffer all night while you went to bed to be able to watch a movie though. If it loads at all.

>Right now I let it sit for an hour to load and buffer.

>what's wrong with this guys? it's perfectly normal and fine!

>what's your isp and what's your speed?
AT&T. Pretty generic, what you'd expect.

About Netflix, I think you can download individual episodes already, but I'm not entirely sure how that works.
Not fine per se, but nothing about it's going to really change.

Why should we spend more money if we don't have to? What part of repealing net neutrality is worth the potential for an increase in prices?

we will always have ascii porn

We don't. I'm not for this repeal, but I'm trying to point out bit by bit how it's not nearly as world-ending as Tumblr and r/politics are making it out to be.
>Now I have to pay $100 just to look up the weather? Oh noes the internet is regressing the sky's fallin' man!
Not happening. He's not charging you per Google search.

How many threads of the same are you going to make kikes?

Mods are cracking down because the majority of NN threads now are pure shitposting. No actual discussion.

>implying you can afford to find out if the sky is falling

... you're still on dialup? K buddy you should join the 21st century sometime.

>nothing about it's going to really change

except that those of us with faster internet that can currently stream in HD without buffering, will be reduced to your slow ass speeds and buffering.

They decided to go with chicken little hysteria.

It was pretty effective. I wonder how much they had to payout to blanket the clearnet.

There is no confusion because they aren't getting any genuine information about it at all. They are being told outright lies with no basis for confusion. They know what they were told and they were told a bunch of baloney.

only faggots hate deregulated capitalism. that total commie Obama reclassified ISPs because under the old classification, they kept trying to achieve what was done today, and had to keep being sued and fined and prosecuted for supposedly bad stuff, llike 'trying to be monopolies' or 'sneaking hidden fees in' or 'throttling bandwidth and blocking competitors sites so people can't switch carriers'. But who cares if they do that? No one. Locking people into contracts and charging 'fees' that get made up month to month is just capitalism. Just work harder to pay for it, or go without and be a cuck. All these people bitching about how companies should be forced by the evil government to stick to their contracts are all just libtardcuckfuckers. Duh.

leaf is this all true?
t. normie on the subject

Pure capitalism, you stupid socialist faggot. It is a privilege to live in a society that agrees that profit is the prime motivator. Don't like it, fuck off to leaf-town.

>treating paying more for the same service as a good thing
what the fuck are you smoking?

>But there was not ONE SINGLE DETAIL ANYWHERE as to the fact that they were rolling back post-2015 stuff. NOTHING ON THAT was anywhere. What the hell? Fucking news and media.
Try CNN
The main reason why you all dislike news organizations is because you're lazy and functionally retarded
They're corrupt, but you need to check up on them all to get the real picture

The FTC has been doing a good job

Why duplicate government oversight?

No, not "as did everyone else." Plenty of us knew all the panicky bullshit on both sides was idiots jerking each other off about nothing. We hoped when it was done and the Internet didn't burst into flames, they'd all go back to their BBC threads, but now apparently they've switched to slide threads rehashing and talking about repeal. Fucknuts.

Hye you bluepilled cuck, if you don't love America now that Trump's made it great, do us all a favor and stop paying for your internet. and leave the cafe you're stealing it from.

Prove it