US Senate Defeats Bill That Would Have Overturned Net Neutrality

[danDroid]

Reminder.. Let's keep this discussion family friendly

 

[Willyammer]

Jonas,

The rules for the so-called Net Neutrality Law are to take affect on November 20. The GOP's effort to stop it, was an honorable one. The name "Net Neutrality" represents a set of rules that will lead to anything but. The name sounds nice and sweet, and unassuming to those that tend to judge books by their covers. And that's just what the Leftists controlling the Senate, and Barack Obama want us to believe. (That it's a wonderful and nice law)

Net Neutrality, now how could anyone not be for that? It really sounds nice, what could possibly be wrong with it?

Net Neutrality is about giving the U.S. government control of the Internet. "The Internet Control Law" would be a much more appropriate name for it, but then had the Democrats (Leftists) honestly labeled it, it wouldn't be getting so much support from the unaware masses who are willing to support a law because it has a wonderful name. "Net Neutrality", what a nice name. (A con-artist never tells you he's a con-artist.)

Wow! Someone escaped the ass-ylum.

 

[CaptainCaveMan]

Jonas,

The rules for the so-called Net Neutrality Law are to take affect on November 20. The GOP's effort to stop it, was an honorable one. The name "Net Neutrality" represents a set of rules that will lead to anything but. The name sounds nice and sweet, and unassuming to those that tend to judge books by their covers. And that's just what the Leftists controlling the Senate, and Barack Obama want us to believe. (That it's a wonderful and nice law)

Net Neutrality, now how could anyone not be for that? It really sounds nice, what could possibly be wrong with it?

Net Neutrality is about giving the U.S. government control of the Internet. "The Internet Control Law" would be a much more appropriate name for it, but then had the Democrats (Leftists) honestly labeled it, it wouldn't be getting so much support from the unaware masses who are willing to support a law because it has a wonderful name. "Net Neutrality", what a nice name. (A con-artist never tells you he's a con-artist.)

You're not reading what we are typing. Do yourself a favor and read this...

The word-for-word rules oh how the FCC is going base decisions on starting November 20th straight from the FCC website:
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-10-201A1.pdf

i. Transparency. Fixed and mobile broadband providers must disclose the network
management practices, performance characteristics, and terms and conditions of their
broadband services;

ii. No blocking. Fixed broadband providers may not block lawful content, applications,
services, or non-harmful devices; mobile broadband providers may not block lawful
websites, or block applications that compete with their voice or video telephony
services; and

iii. No unreasonable discrimination. Fixed broadband providers may not unreasonably
discriminate in transmitting lawful network traffic.

That's it. No more. No less. No Obama coming to take your porn away. This IS what is going down. The republicans today were trying to remove these rules.

 

[brad92]

Jonas,

The rules for the so-called Net Neutrality Law are to take affect on November 20. The GOP's effort to stop it, was an honorable one. The name "Net Neutrality" represents a set of rules that will lead to anything but. The name sounds nice and sweet, and unassuming to those that tend to judge books by their covers. And that's just what the Leftists controlling the Senate, and Barack Obama want us to believe. (That it's a wonderful and nice law)

Net Neutrality, now how could anyone not be for that? It really sounds nice, what could possibly be wrong with it?

Net Neutrality is about giving the U.S. government control of the Internet. "The Internet Control Law" would be a much more appropriate name for it, but then had the Democrats (Leftists) honestly labeled it, it wouldn't be getting so much support from the unaware masses who are willing to support a law because it has a wonderful name. "Net Neutrality", what a nice name. (A con-artist never tells you he's a con-artist.)

I agree with this post.

I also think its funny how the insults come out when people have nothing to counter with

Boot Manager

 

[droid_mike]

Guys, Verizon DOES throttle the top 5%, or at least reserves the right to do so.

The reason why they are throttling is that the courts have limited the FCC's jurisdiction especially in the areas of wireless. If net neutrality was in full force, there would be no throttling allowed.

 

[Jonas]

I agree with this post.

I also think its funny how the insults come out when people have nothing to counter with

Boot Manager

Could you please elaborate on how this is correct? Just out of curiosity, I apologize if I come across as asinine.

 

[GaryCook]

You're not reading what we are typing. Do yourself a favor and read this...

The word-for-word rules oh how the FCC is going base decisions on starting November 20th straight from the FCC website:
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-10-201A1.pdf

i. Transparency. Fixed and mobile broadband providers must disclose the network
management practices, performance characteristics, and terms and conditions of their
broadband services;

ii. No blocking. Fixed broadband providers may not block lawful content, applications,
services, or non-harmful devices; mobile broadband providers may not block lawful
websites, or block applications that compete with their voice or video telephony
services; and

iii. No unreasonable discrimination. Fixed broadband providers may not unreasonably
discriminate in transmitting lawful network traffic.

That's it. No more. No less. No Obama coming to take your porn away. This IS what is going down. The republicans today were trying to remove these rules.

I appreciate your gesture, but I already have a file copy on my computer, and have laboriously read it. (My posts have been factually based)

 

[wolstonc]

Perhaps I wasn't clear in my previous question: What I meant was "why should we expect that xbox live, etc would be affected by either decision (for or against) net neutrality"?

Because if we had tiered home internet as well, one typical online gaming session would probably burn through your entire data allowance. Same with the other services. Just ask those who have mifi through Verizon and got multi thousand dollar bills. My 2nd week working for Verizon there was a $18,000 credit. Someone had a 5gb mobile broadband plan and used it for netflix. Overages.

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[iveman89]

okay so let me see if I got this right. Net Neutrality was passed by the Senate before. GOP tried to repeal it but that was defeated. Net Neutrality is what is written in post #33. So we preserve our freedom from Giant companies such as Charter, verizon, etc from taking control of us. We are happy about this except GaryCook. He is mad that Democrats passed it and GOP tried to reverse it and failed.

I have Charter Com and have to say that they suck. I'm not happy with them, but to have they have fast internet speed I need them, unless I switch to DSL... 1 year ago i was pay $30 less a month for more and better services. Now I have downgraded my packages and raised my bill. GaryCook wrote: If an Internet user is unhappy with service received by their current service provider (ATT, Comcast, etc.), they are free today to take their business elsewhere. I cant even try Time Warner or Comcast because they are not in my monopolized area. I heard Verizon FIOS is coming in the future. I cant wait to switch over.

 

[GaryCook]

okay so let me see if I got this right. Net Neutrality was passed by the Senate before. GOP tried to repeal it but that was defeated. Net Neutrality is what is written in post #33. So we preserve our freedom from Giant companies such as Charter, verizon, etc from taking control of us. We are happy about this except GaryCook. He is mad that Democrats passed it and GOP tried to reverse it and failed.

I have Charter Com and have to say that they suck. I'm not happy with them, but to have they have fast internet speed I need them, unless I switch to DSL... 1 year ago i was pay $30 less a month for more and better services. Now I have downgraded my packages and raised my bill. GaryCook wrote: If an Internet user is unhappy with service received by their current service provider (ATT, Comcast, etc.), they are free today to take their business elsewhere. I cant even try Time Warner or Comcast because they are not in my monopolized area. I heard Verizon FIOS is coming in the future. I cant wait to switch over.

Let me help you out. Because the U.S. Congress refused to give Barack Obama (BO) the power he was demanding over the Internet in 2010, our wonderful president took his own action. The White House wrote rules to police the Internet in an unprecedented way, and in December of 2010, he ordered the FCC to start enforcing the new rules on November 20, 2011. These rules were never passed by "We the People". They are being forced upon us in an effort to take away our "Constitutional First Amendment Rights" when BO believes the time is right. The "Net Neutrality" rules are worded in such a way, that BO will be able to cut the Internet off like a light switch. And for this reason, the U.S. Congress refused to go along with him.

Don't buy into the "Net Neutrality" name. It is only a disguise for something very sinister being cooked-up in the White House by BO and his gang of thug czars.

 

[dgstorm]

This thread was simply meant to inform users on legislation that could affect internet technology that we use with our Androids. It was not meant to turn into a political discussion which is not allowed in our forum rules. These forums are about bringing people together via technology, not driving them apart. Because the discussion has degenerated, this thread will be closed.