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Fax your senators, call your representative, protest in front of your Congressmen's homes...

DuskDaUmbreon·11/22/2017, 5:49:34 PM·80 votes·1,582 views

...Do whatever it is you need to do to support Net Neutrality.

This is one thing we do not want to let die. Every gameplay issue, no matter how much you hate EA, no matter if you prefer PC, Mac, Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo, or prefer mobile games. Doesn't matter if you pay or pirate. FPS, MOBA, MMORPG, or whatever you like. Stream on Twitch, Youtube, or whatever.

##It's all irrelevant.

#This affects all of us.

Sure, at the beginning, it'll just be some companies charged extra, or will have to get less speed.

Which could easily cripple indie and other small companies. Anyone trying to start out is royally screwed. They're either forced to pay more than they can afford to, or deal with cripplingly slow internet.

However, a month or two later, it'll be everyone else it'll be applied to. It won't just be Youtube, Google, and everyone who's a company.

It'll be you, me, and everyone else. The end user. The consumer.

They will intentionally throttle our connection, unless we pay far more than we do now.

#They'll legally be able to fuck us over.

So do whatever it is you can. Go just short of harassing your senators and representatives. Do whatever you can. Yell at your friends to harass them.

Or else...Well...I hope you don't enjoy playing games. Or watching videos. Or browsing memes.

Or using the internet in general.

32 Comments

ZT Xperimentor11/22/2017, 6:13:07 PM15 votes

If it does go through, maybe being a door to door salesman could become a career option again, because nobody could afford to browse the web for goods.

Nasuuna11/22/2017, 6:42:05 PM6 votes

should revoke the clause making telecom companies immune to anti trust laws.

or you know, keep stacking regulations to deal with old ones

DariusDemiurge11/22/2017, 6:30:05 PM5 votes

This is why we can't have nice things.

Voidbringers11/23/2017, 7:16:34 AM4 votes

Here's a screenshot from the payment page of a carrier in Portugal, where there are not net neutrality protections.

https://imgur.com/FwCIsF5

This is what we can look forward to if the US no longer protects net neutrality. Companies will not protect net neutrality, and the "free market" will not stop them, as there is no true competition.

Alamo Jack11/23/2017, 3:24:09 AM3 votes

You really took a good size bite out of the conspiracy theory apple.

Corporatism would be greater if this net neutrality stands, in the form of government lobbying.

Repeal net neutrality and allow free market competition to be the safety net against ISP control.

Though, net neutrality is an interesting term since it already exists within a deregulated free market system anyway. No ISP has an incentive to intentionally screw a customer when that customer could just find a different ISP.

The term net neutrality would become a paradox if we allow too much government intervention.

NocturnalSheild11/22/2017, 6:06:42 PM3 votes

"Or else...Well...I hope you don't enjoy playing games. Or watching videos. Or browsing memes.

Or using the internet in general"

Oh cmon now. I understand your frustration but they arent just going to turn off the internet.

xelaker11/23/2017, 2:33:30 AM2 votes

yea... my sign doesn't weigh as much as millions of dollars in lobby pressure

2kewl4life11/23/2017, 4:02:28 AM2 votes

Crooked Hillary is once again promoting AGAINST net neutrality. #lockherup

Bionic Jellyfish11/23/2017, 6:38:09 PM1 votes

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/replace-ajit-pai-fcc-restore-net-neutrality-make-last-mile-networking-public-utility-and-stop-corporate-abuse-0 Petition to have Pai removed from the FCC and restore net neutrality

Clockwork Madoka11/22/2017, 8:19:34 PM1 votes

Im in full support of Net Neutrality, but I wouldn't assume that they are going to do the whole "packaged prices" thing. However, the problem lies in the fact that a lack of Net Neutrality is incredibly broken in the US, which suffers from extreme cable monopoly in large areas, and an atmosphere that leads to almost zero competition among ISPs, which means there's no protection for the consumer when it comes to practices that influence data usage. NN is necessary because it is what guarantees that the end user can access the site they want, without the requirement of additional pay, without the risk of discriminatory speed influence (I.E they cant make you go slower compared to other users).

TL'DR While it technically isn't necessary, the current state of cable and internet monopolies in the US essentially mandates some form of Net Neutrality be maintained in order to protect consumers and prevent the abuse of monopolized forces.

Cavesloth11/22/2017, 9:54:38 PM1 votes

Anyone who doesn't support net neutrality watch the "Informative Murder Porn" episode of South Park. THOSE are the people who want to have control of the internet, the cable companies. If that doesn't shock you to your senses nothing will.