re: Federal Court Strikes Down Net Neutrality Rules, Sides with Big Telecom

Hate to play Devil's Advocate here but imagine this: You are the power company, you provide power to houses and it costs you money to furnish said power, so what do you do? Have the consumer pay for the AMOUNT of power consumed.

Now what if GE or LG or some other electronics company invents a new super appliance that consumes a TON of power...no sweat to you because your customers pay for the amount of power they consume, if they want the super appliance then by all means they should be prepared to pay the "cost" of having it.

Now flip the coin...you are an ISP, you provide bandwith for the consumer..at a flat rate. Now imagine instead of GE/LG and a super appliance consuming power, it's HULU, or Netflix, bandwith hogs of the internet. Why should the ISP be responsible for providing more bandwith to it's customers at no cost?

Would you, as the consumer be will to pay a bill more like the power company? Would HULU or Netflix be willing to pay the ISP for rights to have thier product esentially piggyback off the ISP's bandwith? The ISP gets cut out in this situation. Therefore, the only logcial solution if Netflix won't pay up, and the customer won't pay up, is for the ISP to cut out the possibility of having to provide more robust bandwith for free.

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so, how does this effect the deep web?

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There will be a snuff film and silk road surcharge added to your monthly ISP bill.

I'm talking about going all in.

And sure, they're harvesting data, as is every company out there. They're just better at doing it than the others are.

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There will be a snuff film and silk road surcharge added to your monthly ISP bill.

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But they will accept bitcoin as payment.