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U.S. citizens and residents have one day left to comment on the FCC's plan to kill net neutrality. Final comments are due tomorrow Wednesday, August 30th, by end-of-day Eastern time (UTC -5).
Once the comment period closes, the FCC is supposed to review the feedback and use it as guidance to revise its proposal. However, it probably won't hurt to also contact your congressional representatives, given the antagonism of the FCC's current leadership towards both the public input and net neutrality itself.
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You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality
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Cum tacent, clamant. When they are silent, they shout. -Cicero
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @05:09PM (15 children)
All my traffic is equal. Screw your neutrality.
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday August 29 2017, @05:14PM (14 children)
All my traffic is equal. Screw your neutrality.
Until they throttle all VPNs that don't pay for the fast-lane...
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @05:33PM
Do your worst. I'll just mod my VPN to make it look like I'm shopping for a fast-lane package all day and then never buy one. Providers prioritize their own store site because suckers might buy something? I'm gonna do the online hobo move and eat all your free samples.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday August 29 2017, @05:35PM (12 children)
setCap(user, 2^30);
if ( ! isInTheList(traffic_dest, AVL_paid) ) countAgainstCap(user);
if (capExceeded(user)) throttle(user, 2^17);
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @05:55PM (11 children)
if (!billPaid(user)) traffic_dest = billPaySite;
if (traffic_dest == billPaySite) allowTraffic();
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @06:03PM
"Okay, Clu, tonight we check everything in the right-hand column. We don't have much time to find that file. This is top priority. This isn't correcting my bank statement or phone bill problem...this is a must. Now, I wrote you. I taught you everything about the system. You're the best program that's ever been written. You're dogged and relentless, remember?"
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday August 29 2017, @06:04PM (9 children)
// you forgot one statement
if (!billPaid(user))
{
throttle(user);
traffic_dest = billPaySite;
}
You can pay your bill at 128kb/s.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @06:15PM (8 children)
You're insane. Nobody will wait for the bill pay site to load at 128kbps.
Bill pay needs to be fast and free or your customers will cancel.
Every provider exempts billing and activation from traffic accounting. Hello, loophole.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday August 29 2017, @06:36PM (7 children)
> Bill pay needs to be fast and free or your customers will cancel.
You must not live in the US. Cancelling because paying is slow is a luxury that competition provides. No competition, no problem.
On top of which, this statement was conditional on you being a scum who has not paid. You should be grateful we provide you with enough bandwidth to pay your late fee, scum!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @06:55PM (6 children)
You must have drunk the kool-aid that brainwashes you into believing the only ISPs in the US are cable monopolies. There's plenty of competition among regional wireline ISPs and national mobile broadband providers.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday August 29 2017, @07:35PM
That kool-aid tasted like homework. When I did mine, I had the choice between two equally bad providers for high-speed, which happens to be better than about half of the houses in the US, according to the FCC.
Wireless broadband is for people whose horizon is more than a couple miles away. I also comes with caps and speed limits which barely qualify as broadband under 21st century advanced economy criteria.
Overdue payment speed is definitely not one of the criteria that would make me switch my payments towards the most evil of the two scumbag companies I had the privilege of selecting from.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @09:11PM (2 children)
Not really, there's frequently two options that are terrible and wireless providers are expensive. Generally, the unlimited is only for one device and if you want to tether that'll cost you as well. Even T-Moble that's generally ahead of the curve, limits the tethering to 10gb per month when the limit for the device itself is more like 28gb per month before they throttle.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 30 2017, @03:21AM (1 child)
How can they tell if you're tethering?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 30 2017, @09:43AM
They look for the tether. Duh.
(Score: 2) by WillR on Tuesday August 29 2017, @09:19PM (1 child)
There is? I see a little competition is between the cable monopoly and the phone monopoly, but that's hardly "plenty". And there's no competition at all if you want more than about 25mbit service, because the phone monopoly's wires suck.
Mobile broadband: if you liked our 1000GB/month data caps on cable, you're gonna love our 10GB/month caps on mobile a hundred times as much!
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Wednesday August 30 2017, @05:02PM
I'm getting 75mbps symmetric from the phone monopoly right now. Verizon FIOS FTW! :)
My only other option here is Cox, and they're pretty atrocious. The ONLY reason to go with Cox is if you expect you'll be unable to pay your bill at some point shortly after signing up, because Verizon would then hit you with a big early termination fee too. But after two years the contract expires and they've upgraded my service twice since then without me paying a dime more...I was on 25/25 when I first signed up. Pricing is identical between the two...every time one changes their rates, the other immediately alters theirs to match...