House of Representatives Passes Net Neutrality Protections
Please, could someone more knowledgeable explain to me. I have used computers since mid 1980s. Started with Atari 800XL. I have used Internet since mid or late 1990s. So first thing: please <i>forget</i> what the name of the Act is. Forget it. Not Net Neutrality. Let&#x27;s call it &quot;Act ABC&quot;. I know, ridicilous, but I want you to look at the issue... hmmm... in neutral manner. I remember the Internet that the ABC Act is supposed to protect us from. Internet in which you pay for the data used. I used a modem and was paying for my time online. So websites that took forever to load or didn&#x27;t employ caching (looking at you youtube without cashing just streaming, but wth). This was <i>much</i> <i>much</i> more diverse internet. That was the internet that forced p2p sharing and p2p platforms. Non-existent now because the current system where you don&#x27;t pay for the data privilleges big oligopolies, big corporations that have the most data. Google (with its subsidaries), Facebook, Twitter are like what 70% of the internet now? Why? How is that good? I want my crazy websites back. I want diversity. I want copyrighted streaming to be kicked in the stomach. I want competition. I don&#x27;t want Google, Facebook and Twitter monopolizing the internet. Look, ISPs have <i>never</i> censored the content. Google, Facebook, Twitter do it all the time. On the one hand they say, oh we&#x27;re platform. On the other they edit content. So which one is it? Obviously you can&#x27;t have both at the same time.<p>Paying for data would disrupt Google, i.e. it would kill youtube (owned by google) overnight or at least far reaching changes in it. Facebook also, spending 3-4 hours a day on it, and <i>paying</i> ? Noow, wouldn&#x27;t it be better to spend 20 minutes there and then browse for other locations? Just to spend your expensive online time more wisely. With free cost of bytes send developers, and I&#x27;m sorry to say it, I&#x27;m a developer too though, can be lazy. No optimization what-so-ever. Building websites to make sure they are small, load fast, put important content up-front, don&#x27;t waste users time... now how this could be bad?<p>Net Neutrality is the step in the future. Future of Googles, Twitters and Facebooks, Amazons, 3-4 oligopolies taking all traffic, killing all the innovation and competition in the process. This isn&#x27;t the future I hoped for. I hoped for neevr ending 1990s internet. With dozens of websites I visited regularly. And these dozens changing every year too. Future of the internet looks so regulated now. The last step will be the Government taking over, or rather regulating, FANG. This is death of the innovation for this Industry.<p>And make no mistake: if Republicans won&#x27;t pass Net Neutrality then Democrats will surely do it. But still they seem to recognize the same problem, Ms. Elizabeth Warren wants to break-down Google, Twitter, Facebook into smaller competing companies --  employing anti-trust laws against them via Department of Justice action. So I think we see the problem on both sides of the aisle. The thing is that solving the problem of big corporations governing the Internet like their own turf might be better done via making time on the internet or data sent paid again. Just seems more natural than taking Judical action against the offenders.