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OAquinas
Jan 27, 2008

Biden has sat immobile on the Iron Throne of America. He is the Master of Malarkey by the will of the gods, and master of a million votes by the might of his inexhaustible calamari.

Mr. Lobe posted:

In realistic terms, what exactly is the worst case scenario of all this going down? If someone has a link or something that explains it, that'd be cool, too.

Look at your cable bill and packages, then apply that to domains and the ability to access international subnets.

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OAquinas
Jan 27, 2008

Biden has sat immobile on the Iron Throne of America. He is the Master of Malarkey by the will of the gods, and master of a million votes by the might of his inexhaustible calamari.

computer parts posted:

An asteroid hits and kills everyone.

Dammit Jeb! :argh:


:jeb:

OAquinas
Jan 27, 2008

Biden has sat immobile on the Iron Throne of America. He is the Master of Malarkey by the will of the gods, and master of a million votes by the might of his inexhaustible calamari.

935 posted:

How much money does Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner, et al stand to lose? And how much of a fuss will we hear about this from politicians proclaiming this literally the worst thing Obama has ever done?

Enough that they already have lawsuits primed and ready to fire. This is not over by a long shot, and of course the GOP congress is going to rail against this government prevention of local monopolies takeover of the internet. :freep:

OAquinas
Jan 27, 2008

Biden has sat immobile on the Iron Throne of America. He is the Master of Malarkey by the will of the gods, and master of a million votes by the might of his inexhaustible calamari.

Pauline Kael posted:

So you're comfortable with the Feds placing themselves firmly into the Internet business to maybe one day potentially warn comcast not to become a bigger poo poo?

And yet, the only thing net neutrality as implemented will have to do with content is that your horse porn receives the same priority as my streamed NASA launch.

I'd rather have the federal government preventing racketeering by the broadband companies than allow the invisible hand of the free market to fist my wallet again, yes.

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