"Net Neutrality" was one of the worst things ever done to freedom in the history of the world.
Net Neuter is exactly what that phrase implies. It never truly impacted end user service costs (aside from globally increase them). At its core, it was designed to enrich massive companies like Netflix and Google (Youtube), as these companies no longer needed to be concerned with the amount of bandwidth their services were using. Under the neutering of the net, we were bombarded with auto-play suggestion lists and completely bloated web-pages.
Question: Why does the TV-Tropes website want access to my phone's camera and geo-positioning data?
Many websites these days are not platforms for the sharing of information or news, they are purely surveillance and propaganda platforms designed to shove as much shit down the throat of the person passing through as possible. Six fucking ads streaming bullshit at me when I load the page while trying to stream video back go God only knows where to figure out Lord only knows what (or try to process it into some format more suitable for streaming - hence why you need a god damned supercomputer to browse the web, these days).
If advertising companies were consuming 80% of the bandwidth used to browse most of the normal internet sites out there, then it makes complete sense that network service providers would throttle such services on their network. The only way the surveillance state could have been expanded to the degree it was, was under Net Neuter.
Services like Facebook can stream massive amounts of data to and from users - despite its seemingly small amount of data requirement. Why does it take 4G-LTE speeds on my phone ten seconds to load a fraction of the text and responses contained within this page... using Facebook? A recent trip through this site on my phone showed it could load this place nearly instantly on the same network. Why the lag on FB? What's it doing?
Services like Snapchat will stream geo-location data to ads not yet present to the viewer. A targeted ad will be loaded ahead of time.
Again, if ISPs could throttle these services and/or charge extra to allow them greater network traffic, then many of these ventures would not be profitable. YouTube wouldn't infinitely play on tablets handed to toddlers to generate advertising revenue. Facebook wouldn't be trying to create a media box in which to place people - the data streaming costs would be too high (or people would have to start paying for facebook). Advertisements that make off with untold amounts of data streamed from user systems would be very expensive operations.
Blackout understood?
People would be here... in many of these types of forums, rather than mindlessly tapping away in the horrid design of Facebook, if it wasn't constantly trying to blast them with emotionally charged posts of their friends, family, exes, news, etc. Forums are designed for conversation and to keep up with what people are talking about, rather than to try and box people into things.
As for DJT.... kind of interesting that no one really had these kinds of opinions on him until after he ran against Hillary Clinton for office.
