Net Neutrality -- What You Need To Know

I'm still confused.

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Without net neutrality, comcast could throttle your connection to your bank making it unusable. Same for insurance, or any other online service you use. Then suddenly comcast gets to dictate who you bank with, who gets your insurance, where you get your music, news, and pretty much everything else.

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Much like you see Comcast/DTV/etc dropping TV stations during "negotiations", just wait til they start blocking websites for the same thing.

"Sorry, Chase doesn't pay us enough money to provide access to their website, so we're not going to allow it until they agree to our contract demands."

Is there any way this doesn't send internet costs through the roof for consumers?

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It's a threat to your wallet, not your freedom.

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I completely disagree. If your comms provider has the ability to unduly influence who you buy what from, its about freedom. The gov't is letting the ISPs restrict services, giving them defacto control over almost every part of your digital life.

And in most markets, there are only one or two providers for high speed internet. So that choice is pretty much out the window.

They probably won't do it with banking to start with, but it will be coming. get your comcast quintiple play - insurance, banking, phone, internet and security services. Its really quite scary.

They will probably be doing the same for TV channels. They don't like the rhetoric on one station, cut them from the line-up and have their internet service slowed until it is unusable. News channel over with until they pay up

Don't forget that all of these companies control most of the television services throughout the country as well

Or they know that people won't be able to cut the cord as easily anymore since they will be able to throttle and know that DirecTV is going to stop losing people.

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And in most markets, there are only one or two providers for high speed internet.

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This is the real problem, unfortunately I doubt they try to fix it.

For now you have the choice of 4 wireless providers in most markets. I wonder if that's enough competition. If you can access your bank on your phone through AT&T but not on your desktop through Comcast, the first thing that's going to happen is calls to tech support thinking it's broken. It would have to be a pretty colluded situation, not that the companies we're talking about wouldn't go there, for blocking sites to not create a massive outcry, and the public voice has never had more influence on companies than it does now with anything anyone says on social media potentially being covered like it's actual news.

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If you can access your bank on your phone through AT&T but not on your desktop through Comcast, the first thing that's going to happen is calls to tech support thinking it's broken. It would have to be a pretty colluded situation, not that the companies we're talking about wouldn't go there, for blocking sites to not create a massive outcry, and the public voice has never had more influence on companies than it does now with anything anyone says on social media potentially being covered like it's actual news.

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there response is going to be - its the bank that has the problem.

And reality is if customer service mattered to these fricks, they would have decent customer service. Call ATT, or comcast and see what the experience is like. Its scary.

They know you are pretty much stuck, so they DGAF.

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And reality is if customer service mattered to these fricks, they would have decent customer service. Call ATT, or comcast and see what the experience is like. Its scary.

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Which is why I'm pissed that they bought DirecTV. It's the one place you can still get halfway decent customer service.

What incentive do they have to offer customer service when they are the only choice?

That's a horribly written article.

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Its the biggest threat to personal freedom we have seen in the last 50 years.

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uh no

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So where does having a corporate gatekeeper that decides which products and services you have access to fit in your list of threats to personal freedom?