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on Tuesday November 21 2017, @10:43PM
from the the-end-of-the-net-as-we-know-it dept.
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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TOO BAD YOU CAN'T BUY a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin
real fast and freak everybody out.
-- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
(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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford