re: Pornhub Will Show Its 75 Million Daily Visitors Why Net Neutrality Matters

ajit and donald can both go suck a frick.

you should try getting a girlfriend. Then neither Pronhub nor Trump would be so important to you.

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I hope that Entergy decides tonight that you shouldn't watch tv or have AC and cuts your power due to "usage." Oh wait, THEY CANT JUST BECAUSE.

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No, they charge you by your amount of usage. So this is exactly the same as what the ISPs are trying to go to. With electricity, water and gas you pay for a "pipeline" (whether the medium is pipe or wire) with a limited transfer capacity, and they charge you for how many units you use and no one complains.

Yet when the ISPs do it everyone decides to compare the 2 and make it so the ISPs are evil for wanting the same set up that other utilities have. It's a complete apples to oranges scenario.

Another thing, there is only so much bandwidth (as in frequency, not as in upload and download speed) for data to travel through the "pipelines" (copper and fiber cable in this case) and it's being filled up on networks by services that pay for no impact they have on networks. When the Internet was nothing but pictures and text it was one thing but now with streaming media, it's a totally different animal.

There is good and bad to both sides of the arguments, either way once their is an official decision prices are going up on either Netflix style services or the services of your ISP.

Terrible analogy in that business work directly with UPS and other shippers to improving their shipping times and can pay for infrastructure upgrades to support this. Net neutrality means everyone is treated the same and the companies can't even work together to improve their own speeds with the ISP despite the fact that data is not all the same. Video streaming vs gaming vs texts, emails, etc should be treated differently.

How much do the ISP's actually pay for the infrastructure? How much is subsidized? Genuine question, but I was under the impression that a lot of the cable infrastructure for distribution of the internet was heavily subsidized by the government. Then the ISP's take advantage of government protected monopolies. They are kind of like private utilities that by design do not have much competition or in some markets any competition.

The better analogy from what I understand would be if UPS and Fed Ex tried to regulate the delivery of goods on roads that were largely paid for by the public and didn't allow any commerce using the publicly funded infrastructure to go through anyone except them.

EDIT: There is this weird grey area because these ISP's are somewhere between a publicly funded utility and privately held profit seeking enterprises. It makes for really sketchy business. This is why companies like Comcast are known for being shite and are still able to get away with it because they have so much market power.

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How much do the ISP's actually pay for the infrastructure? How much is subsidized? Genuine question, but I was under the impression that a lot of the cable infrastructure for distribution of the internet was heavily subsidized by the government. Then the ISP's take advantage of government protected monopolies. They are kind of like private utilities that by design do not have much competition or in some markets any competition.

The better analogy from what I understand would be if UPS and Fed Ex tried to regulate the delivery of goods on roads that were largely paid for by the public and didn't allow any commerce using the publicly funded infrastructure to go through anyone except them.

EDIT: There is this weird grey area because these ISP's are somewhere between a publicly funded utility and privately held profit seeking enterprises. It makes for really sketchy business. This is why companies like Comcast are known for being shite and are still able to get away with it because they have so much market power.

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Cox and New Orleans have a "non-exclusive franchise" relationship for Cable TV, which also skirts that line between public and private. But they must have a relationship because providers need access to city rights of way and utility power poles.

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My god you guys are such pussies. OH NO MY WIFE CANT FIND OUT IM WHACKING OFF. Really asshats. I don't know what to say

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If you could read, that's not what this is about.

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They are about to let corporate telecoms frick with our internet, when they know the populace overwhelmingly disapproves of it. This isn't capitalism. It's flat out ignorance.

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Its worse than ignorance.. it's intentional.

How the frick can anyone disagree with the concept of the internet being a telecommunication service? It's literally nothing more than the transportation of information

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The other day, for some reason a movie titled "Catfish" caught my attention. It got my attention early into it, but after I guess.. Maybe the first 15 mins, it was complete crap

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Are you serious?

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It's ludicrous to think that people would not pay extra for net neutrality over being throttled.

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People who have access to extra providers. The vast majority of us are stuck with the monopolies. If fricking Google couldn't get into the internet business (while investing heavily into it) then why would you expect a start-up to succeed?