re: FCC plans to vote to overturn U.S. net neutrality rules in December

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Quality of ISP service increasing has absolutely nothing to do with net neutrality.

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Requiring all internet traffic to be treated equally removes a slimy way for an ISP to generate revenue and moves the competition to who can deliver the better product (access to the internet).

Right now AT&T customers can stream DirecTV without it counting toward your monthly data caps (which are also bullshite btw). But if you want to watch Netflix or another video service you rack up data charges and ultimately have to pay more for your internet. AT&T offers a cheaper data deal to DirecTV (its own video service) than it does to outside video providers like Netflix. That discourages competition and it shouldn't be allowed. A better solution would be to break the companies up but I'll settle for internet traffic being treated equally.

It's funny though.. Verizon (owns Go-90) received a letter for violating net neutrality rules. Ajit Pai (former Verizon general counsel) runs the show now and rescinded the letter when he became chairman.

1) I pay to access the internet at X speed through their infrastructure
2) Comcast charges content creators to deliver content to me
3) I pay for access to content
4) Comcast begins to create content and to deliver content
5) Comcast begins to charge content creators a higher price to deliver content to me. Fees go up.
6) Comcast promotes their own content and delivery service and gives me access to it for a much lower cost but if I choose to use the other service they throttle my speed or make me pay more money.

I feel like i'm taking crazy pills when Trumpkins try to defend this nonsense