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Privacy Online News reports
The "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" is a new Google Chrome browser extension [1] created by the good activists at Keep Our Net Free for education and awareness purposes. [It] simulates an online world without net neutrality (NN) where internet service providers (ISPs) control and squeeze your internet browsing experience for extra profit. The extension's functionality and stated goals are simple:
To demonstrate the impact of removing Net Neutrality, this extension slows your internet connection and blocks several websites.
All it takes is a few minutes of using the Internet with the "Removal of Net Neutrality Simulator" to get a clear grasp of why consumers deserve net neutrality. The creators of the dystopian simulator explained:
This extension shows you what the ramifications of this decision would be by slowing all websites except for "sponsored sites", and blocking content those sites' competitors' websites.
[1] All content is behind scripts.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Monday June 05 2017, @10:50PM
Yet the evil drumpf is letting them profit off of our browsing habits. Clearly they are so evil that they are even going to sabotage their own profits!!
This is the sort of doublethink I still see everywhere. "Trump is controlled by Russia, so he wants to start a war with them!!!" WTF are these people smoking?
This whole debate is an unfortunate. The real debate should be opening the last mile to competition, but as always, the MSM will NOT discuss the real issue or push the envelope and do their job as investigative journalists. They're telling the truth about everything else though, people seem to believe.