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Net Neutrality

Have you experienced slower internet or any of your favorite sites being blocked?

  • I've experienced slower internet unless I paid more for fast internet

    Votes: 1 12.5%

  • I've seen sites get blocked by my ISP

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I've experienced neither

    Votes: 7 87.5%
  • Total voters
    8
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When Donald Trump stepped into office, he appointed Ajit Pai as the chairman of the FCC who opposed net neutrality, believing that it impeded on freedom. A year ago, a law in 2015 which subjects internet service providers to title II of the 1934 communications act officially went out of effect.

Naturally, supporters of net neutrality were worried that this would be the end of an open internet as ISPs would be able to slow down internet speeds for people who didn't pay more for faster internet and even block a few sites. Competition would not help in this case, according to supporters, because there are usually only a few providers in a given area due to the upfront costs of building the infrastructure for it.

My question to you is whether you have seen slower internet or more blocked sites in the last year.
 
Google has done more to limit online freedom than any ISP ever dreamed of.
 
Masterhawk said:
When Donald Trump stepped into office, he appointed Ajit Pai as the chairman of the FCC who opposed net neutrality, believing that it impeded on freedom. A year ago, a law in 2015 which subjects internet service providers to title II of the 1934 communications act officially went out of effect.

Naturally, supporters of net neutrality were worried that this would be the end of an open internet as ISPs would be able to slow down internet speeds for people who didn't pay more for faster internet and even block a few sites. Competition would not help in this case, according to supporters, because there are usually only a few providers in a given area due to the upfront costs of building the infrastructure for it.

My question to you is whether you have seen slower internet or more blocked sites in the last year.
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The only slow downs I've experienced are from sites throttling the speed at which they send data to me...not from my ISP.

The only sites being blocked are from my security software (browser features, AV, etc.)

On the other hand, I stream very little content. Netflx, Hulu, YouTube, Google on Android...I use none of that kind of stuff. I suspect that THOSE would be the kinds of things an ISP would throttle. The run of the mill web page doesn't really use the same amount of bandwidth.
 
AmNat said:
Google has done more to limit online freedom than any ISP ever dreamed of.
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You'll be interested to find that Google (alongside other big internet companies) actually supports net neutrality.
 
Masterhawk said:
You'll be interested to find that Google (alongside other big internet companies) actually supports net neutrality.
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Which is what makes me suspicious of it.
 
Masterhawk said:
When Donald Trump stepped into office, he appointed Ajit Pai as the chairman of the FCC who opposed net neutrality, believing that it impeded on freedom. A year ago, a law in 2015 which subjects internet service providers to title II of the 1934 communications act officially went out of effect.

Naturally, supporters of net neutrality were worried that this would be the end of an open internet as ISPs would be able to slow down internet speeds for people who didn't pay more for faster internet and even block a few sites. Competition would not help in this case, according to supporters, because there are usually only a few providers in a given area due to the upfront costs of building the infrastructure for it.

My question to you is whether you have seen slower internet or more blocked sites in the last year.
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I've used 71.75 GB in the last 30 days, no slow down or throttle...
 
I can only access FOX NEWS these days.
 
So far as I am aware, I have not encountered either, yet.

That said, I have been using a VPN for most of my internet activity (even gaming), and that might be skewing the extremely unscientific results.
 
I have Google fiber. All is good.

But why shouldn't people who use a lot of bandwith pay more?
 
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