You should indeed wait until ISPs actually slow down specific sites. Problem is that happenend back in 2014.
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Many areas in the US only have one company provided Broadband speed internet. Some don’t even have a DSL alternative.
If you had a free market for ISPs I may agree with you. This would probably lead to NN being followed by everyone anyway though.
Those rules were all implicit before the reclassification.
I’d say large corporations having the same position as the EFF says more to be honest. The only companies it can actually benefit are Telcos.
You probably are getting your posts deleted for saying the same thing 5 times in a row. Either way though, Giz aren’t the government and therefore can censor as they please.
You didn’t have the internet pre net neutrality. The only difference reclassifying did was telling TelCos to stop throttling services directly as opposed to it just being implied. If this bill is passsed then it’ll seem like the ISPs have free reign again.
Good, it’s basically one of the principles of the damn thing. Without it you, technically, could have Telcos charging whatever they see fit per site. They’re more likely to just slow down sites they don’t agree with though. For example YouTube or NetFlix if they don’t pay enough.
Not only that, they may well do it the other way round, make people pay through the nose for anything not owned by them and charge a reasonable fee for their own stuff.
No, then you worry what the VPNs doing while loaded. Also the source codes online at
My point is that other countries with net neutrality laws have faster average internet speeds. So it isn’t, at least exclusively, net neutrality that gives the US a comparitively slow average speed. The netherlands, for example, has net neutrality but also has the 5th fastest internet worldwide.
directly probably not. You might have to pay more for netflix etc though.
In terms of speeds no, probably not. You may see higher costs for netflix etc but your actual internet price should stay the same.
That’s not they way it works. It doesn’t mean some tiny blog pays the same as netflix. It means per bit everyone pays the same.
Net Neutrality is followed by basically every western ISP though. Sometimes caps etc are set too low and then I would agree with you but this is the way the ISPs have been operating for ever.
What are you talking about of course NN exists. It’s one of the main principles of the internet. The regulations were enacted to stop ISPs from removing it (in any way).
What web browser do you use? I’m fairly sure both google chrome (Not chromium) and Firefox support everything needed for netflix and amazon PIV. Also I’m fairly sure both PIV and netflix use html5 now if they can.
Amazon prime video now, reportedly (I don’t have prime so can’t check) works. Netflix also, reportedly, works but may require chrome.
Mints pre installed list is, afaik, fairly similar to Ubuntu. The actual distro also has an ubuntu base and therefore very similar repos. It also, at least theoretically, has support for Ubuntu PPAs.