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The Internet is Saved
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:49 pm
by Reise
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/b ... ality.htmlFederal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Julius Genachowski is expected to announce a plan on Monday to formalize the idea of net neutrality. The move, which supports a campaign promise made by President Barack Obama, will prevent the information superhighway from becoming a toll road giving preferential treatment to those who pay for it.
Aw yeah.
Re: The Internet is Saved
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:07 pm
by SM-Count
Doesn't affect me, but it might in the future, so let me be the second to say **** yeah!
Re: The Internet is Saved
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:32 pm
by Sovereign
I don't really understand what the message is Mind putting it in basic english?
Re: The Internet is Saved
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:37 pm
by piootr
Sovereign wrote:I don't really understand what the message is Mind putting it in basic english?
Internet companies have been throwing around the idea of making users pay per website they visit(I.E you have to buy packages of websites and can't visit any others). With this, that plan is hopefully gone for good now.
**** yea.
Re: The Internet is Saved
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:39 pm
by *BlackFox
That's great news!
Re: The Internet is Saved
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:43 pm
by satman83
piootr wrote:Sovereign wrote:I don't really understand what the message is Mind putting it in basic english?
Internet companies have been throwing around the idea of making users pay per website they visit(I.E you have to buy packages of websites and can't visit any others). With this, that plan is hopefully gone for good now.
**** yea.
pay per website? money grabbing greedy assholes
and they wonder why people download stuff illegal or try to get free internet ¬_¬
anyway am glad over this, £10 a month and all the free pornz i want
Re: The Internet is Saved
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:49 pm
by XemnasXD
piootr wrote:Sovereign wrote:I don't really understand what the message is Mind putting it in basic english?
Internet companies have been throwing around the idea of making users pay per website they visit(I.E you have to buy packages of websites and can't visit any others). With this, that plan is hopefully gone for good now.
**** yea.
thats the first im hearing of this. I thought the net neutrality thing was all about making the internet available to EVERYONE seeing as its now essential for most things not regulating how the internet companies package their internet. But i'll say right now i don't know the entirety of this thing...
Re: The Internet is Saved
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:59 pm
by SilentShade
ofy1993 wrote:No one comes on the internet to pay for stuff they do on the internet.
saying that in a sro forum

Anyways, good news, yey

Re: The Internet is Saved
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 7:04 pm
by piootr
XemnasXD wrote:piootr wrote:Sovereign wrote:I don't really understand what the message is Mind putting it in basic english?
Internet companies have been throwing around the idea of making users pay per website they visit(I.E you have to buy packages of websites and can't visit any others). With this, that plan is hopefully gone for good now.
**** yea.
thats the first im hearing of this. I thought the net neutrality thing was all about making the internet available to EVERYONE seeing as its now essential for most things not regulating how the internet companies package their internet. But i'll say right now i don't know the entirety of this thing...
You're exactly correct. Net neutrality was in response to the idea of pay per website, and this is formalizing net neutrality.
Network neutrality (also net neutrality, Internet neutrality) is a principle proposed for residential broadband networks and potentially for all networks. A neutral broadband network is one that is free of restrictions on content, sites, or platforms, on the kinds of equipment that may be attached, and on the modes of communication allowed, as well as one where communication is not unreasonably degraded by other communication streams.[1][2][3]
The principle states that if a given user pays for a certain level of internet access, and another user pays for a given level of access, that the two users should be able to connect to each other at that given rate of access.
Though the term did not enter popular use until several years later, since the early 2000s advocates of net neutrality and associated rules have raised concerns about the ability of broadband providers to use their last mile infrastructure to block Internet applications and content (e.g. websites, services, protocols); particularly those of competitors. In the US particularly, but elsewhere as well, the possibility of regulations designed to mandate the neutrality of the Internet has been subject to fierce debate.
Re: The Internet is Saved
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 7:13 pm
by Mirosuke
Fuck ***
Re: The Internet is Saved
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 7:14 pm
by *BlackFox
satman83 wrote: £10 a month and all the free pornz i want

$5000 a month or more sounds better.. lulz
Re: The Internet is Saved
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 7:16 pm
by satman83
Re: The Internet is Saved
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 7:17 pm
by Deadsolid
Time Warner = -1
Comcast = +1
I know its OT but wth right? lol
Re: The Internet is Saved
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 7:21 pm
by XemnasXD
**** comcast. I've had verizon RCN and comast and comcast is by far the worst. Its the most unstable with the worst support.
Re: The Internet is Saved
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 7:44 pm
by *BlackFox
Re: The Internet is Saved
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 10:21 pm
by Doron
**** no. pay for internetz?
Re: The Internet is Saved
Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 10:52 am
by ltsune
That's great news

Re: The Internet is Saved
Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 2:29 pm
by inky
Free pronz?!

...although it has always been free anyway.
Re: The Internet is Saved
Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 3:10 pm
by CrimsonNuker
While we're on the topic of free shit on the internet; for anybody that lives in Canada, is it true that Bell doesn't have an internet cap like Rogers? -_-