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on Tuesday November 21 2017, @10:43PM
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from the the-end-of-the-net-as-we-know-it dept.
The FCC will reveal vote to repeal net neutrality this week
The new rules are expected to be announced on Wednesday, whilst most Americans are distracted by getting home to loved ones for Thanksgiving.
This will then be followed by a vote on 10 December, which would see the 2015 rules designed to protect the internet being torn down.
[...] The important point, as we've said before, is that once the genie is out of the bottle, getting it back in is almost impossible and for our readers outside the US, don't think this doesn't affect you - everything that passes through US servers will be affected in some way and will knock on to you.
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FCC Will Reveal Vote to Repeal Net Neutrality This Week
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday November 21 2017, @11:13PM (6 children)
Some must have net neutrality, whereas others must not due to the corrupt nature of their businesses and governments.
Yet I've never actually heard any discussion of neutrality outside the US. Surely Soylent would have covered it.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @11:18PM (1 child)
China is Great. Everyone is connected to China Telecom and China Mobile and the entire network has one neutral Firewall.
(Score: 3, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday November 21 2017, @11:39PM
... except via Japan.
This because some politico gave his nephew his own telecom company, at the expense of China Telecom.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by c0lo on Tuesday November 21 2017, @11:55PM
Because we don't need to. Sure, there will be some hitchtes at first, but in this context (routing) the saying with "the Internet sees something-something as damage and routes around" really do apply.
We'll start by switching traffic via ... let me see... Brazil [soylentnews.org], India and South Africa [soylentnews.org], Cuba and Venezuela [cnet.com]?
Ah, I guess you can see the map by yourself [submarinecablemap.com].
If you want to go on the
- "but... Netflix and Apple and whatevs", let me remind that the CDN network is quite present where it needs to be. If more bandwidth is necessary, it will be created where necessary.
- online gaming - never seen anyone dying for not being able to play with/against USians
And the first that will look into getting their content/services presence less restricted and still cheap will be: Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Netflix and derivatives. Not quite the destitutes of the business world - if they want the money, they'll move after them instead of waiting the money to come to them.
I don't know why I have this feeling the joke is on you, dear USian guys. Perhaps that Ajit-whats-his-name is doing the rest of the world a service, NSA wiretapping and whatnot.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 22 2017, @02:59AM (1 child)
Portugal has an ISP that is all the EFF fears. Internet packages are purchased like cable TV packages.
India has ISPs (cell phone networks) that have made special deals with Facebook. That comes free, other stuff will cost you, so just stay on Facebook where you can afford it. Soylentnews costs real money.
(Score: 4, Informative) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday November 22 2017, @05:15AM
http://www.businessinsider.com/net-neutrality-portugal-how-american-internet-could-look-fcc-2017-11 [businessinsider.com]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 22 2017, @08:17AM
"Yet I've never actually heard any discussion of neutrality outside the US. Surely Soylent would have covered it."
That's probably because outside of the USA, network neutrality is known as "Common Sense".