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

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1. frick the FCC and all telecom regs
2. Current regs + net neutrality, but strive for #1
3. Current regs + no net neutrality = shitshow

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1 is the only viable option because the telecoms own the FCC.

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Google.......one of the richest companies on the planet............wanted to piggy back off Comcast AND to dictate the terms to Comcast

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Gotta protect the little guys.

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Nope. I'd have cheered Obama on if got rid of net neutrality instead of instituting it.

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Yeah. WTF?

We've been anti NN for fricking YEARS!

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Gotta protect the little guys.

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Yeah.

He's come at me with that Nashville silliness before.

I'm like, wait, wut? Google didn't want to pay what Comcast asked?..........because it was too expensive? Oh, and Comcast wanted extra precautions with their gear too if I recall.

All of this was deemed to prohibitive.

I'm like, what? Did Google CEOs also demand blow jobs from Comcast CEOs? Cause, I mean, they really should have thrown those in too!



I mean..........you almost can't make that shite up.

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Taxing Authority

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I had fun in this thread............but, it's Friday.........and, it's time to stop embarrassing people on the internet.

To think that you idiots may be engineers, parents, and certainly voters.

It’s either going with companies like Comcast/AT&T who I know for certain will frick me and the entire population or going with the government which is so fricking incompetent that I’m pretty sure the internet will remain the same roughly unregulated.

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I had fun in this thread............but, it's Friday.........and, it's time to stop embarrassing people on the internet.

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You haven’t had a coherent thought since Trump called Mexicans rapists.

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Nope. I'd have cheered Obama on if got rid of net neutrality instead of instituting it.

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Yeah, they tried the “you’re only against it because of Obama”

I will fully admit my position on this changed. Was for it at one time. Sounds like a great idea. Who could be against “neutrality”? Then I started digging deeper. Now... not a proponent.

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Maybe you could try providing a convincing link that there are lots of ISPs out there.

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I did that in the same thread Halfwit started on the O-T Board.

A poster in that thread claimed there was only one option for high speed internet access where he lived in southwest Oklahoma and that's why he's pissing his pants in fear.

I didn't know his city so I picked a random city in southwest Oklahoma which was Lawton, Oklahoma, not exactly a mega-metropolis.

I provided a link to him which listed 14 ISP's in Lawton with only one of them having a download speed less than 5 mbps. His comeback? "I don't live in Lawton."

It appeared that most of those 14 ISPs served the entire southwest Oklahoma market.

There are numerous ISPs in every city of any size and even in rural areas. They may not be the "traditional" carriers like Comcast or Cox but they are there.

I use Cox most of the time but when Cox goes down I switch over to AT&T data access using my iPad or my iPhone. That's TWO ISP's I use now in my home. How many fricking ISPs do I need?? (I'm starting to think that "ISP" is not really the best term to describe access to the internet. It should just be "internet access.")

I have at least 9 ISP's available to me where I live in Baton Rouge.

I said "I give up" because arguing something that is so common sense with some of you Drama Queens is a waste of time.

How anyone could be against Net Neutrality is beyond me. Comcast is the most hated company on the planet, so it’s a fair bet that whatever they think is good has to be bad. Yet here we are.