I don’t think people understand how devastating the end of net neutrality, and consumer protections around internet connectivity, are going to be. Imagine the situation where you pay for 4 or 5 different streaming services, each with different “exclusives” — but for the Internet itself.
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Net neutrality eviscerated by appeals court ruling
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Wait. The pricing tiers and "add ons" and "subscriptions" will be staggering. Want News Networks? Surcharge, Streaming Netflix, Hulu, Disney, additional Premium charge.
People will be screaming for the Biden inflation once they see trumps.
2026: Now HD video is $5 extra
2028: Now video is $5 extra, and every steaming service you want HD on is $2 per service
Ad infinitum
You. Are. Screwed.
I did not think the US was like that. And now..... worse!?
It’s worse. The only option is a satellite internet service (not StarLink) that is not so reliable.
What a fucked up 17 years...
Unless you'd rather be beholden to Comcast the rest of your life.
Another way to fleece the consumers.
Seems when I start watching the phone rings.
Go away and take your village idiots and geriatrics with you. All of you, just…go.
There should be a nationwide movement to hold public forums and meet ups for researched news and social gathering. We lived thousands of years without it, they've made us feel like we need it.
American business is like heroin business, they want you to get addicted then you pay.
Death to the United States
Republicans, distracting voters with the price of eggs, America voted away their freedoms and protections.
Republicans care only of being re-elected.
It sucks and I don't like it!
Not looking forward to it.
Expect your video & music libraries to be cut off, too, unless you pay more and more for them. Those are just rentals, you may not own any of that content permanently
#InformationWar #DataCommons #NetNeutrality #FreedomofSpeech #ConstitutionalProtections #Education #STEM Someone make a peoples’ internet, stat.
Someone make a peoples’ market, asap.
Comcast closed a tech support call center here in retaliation. The space was taken over by Broadcom.
I'm on a learning curve, I welcome corrections.
Thanks in advance,
All of us.
For 2024 internet $1,999 a month
That about right?
Which is why it will happen.
Otherwise how would billionaires become trillionaires?
Which in effect is giving your vote to Trump.
The 6th circuit’s brains are fully baked
“The existence of a fact or a thought in one’s mind is not ‘information’ like 0s and 1s used by computers,”
https://youtube.com/watch?v=aau_kEtNV2U
Just another example of Trump’s SCOTUS working against America.
The reason this is happening is because a lazy uninformed populace vote against their best interest. People think the government is in control and that's not how it's supposed to work.
It wasn't supposed to be weaponized and used to detach Americans from functional shared objective reality, but here we are.
"That's a nice website you've got there... would be a shame if something were to... slow it down a lot..."
I'm full-time WFH and the only net outages have been when there were major blackouts/electrical outages nearby - and those are very rare since we're right near a big BG&E maintenance station.
(see also: Sega)
It’s very weird.
but I still remember "Use a cable modem, go to jail."
Back when telcos were doing competitive local service, though, lotsa weird stuff happened when different units tried switching to different telcos with random tech subcontractors.
I'm in a part of my town where the telco infrastructure's old,
so conversations with AT&T about switching (after they turned off CO DSL) tend to go "Sure! Let me check. Oh. Oh, you're on THAT block..." and a tech who tried to install service said just get cable🙂
I'm half-convinced the reason they bought cell phone co's was to own a company customers hated as much as their cable co.