How does Net Nutrality affect SE/XIV?

[LastFireAce]

Well I don't know, thought you guys would?
Here what I know.
FCC has voted to revoke Net Nutrality, 3/2
Yes is looking bad....
The next fight is on Court....
Basically we losing until Court decided what to do.

[Claire_Pendragon]

With how it looks in other countries, most likely you'll pay for basic internet connection. (what you pay now)
Then you pay to be allowed to access sites based on content.

Example:

All music related stuff, like itunes store, pandora
All Video related stuff, like youtube, twitch
All Social Media stuff, facebook, twitter
All "call" related stuff, like skype
All video game access, MMO etc

Which is either $2~ a day, or something like $30~ a month for 1 of these categories, and if u want them all, a small discount of $130 on top of your normal internet cost.

Then if you want a video to actually load. (if you have AT&T right now, you'll see how impossible it is to watch a youtube video in 240p, as it takes nearly 20 mins to load 5mins) you'll need to pay for your current speed, by another $10 most likely, or more.

But, thats based on other countries, and what little I remember. I might have the numbers wrong, and I'm too lazy to look them up again.

[Cakekizyy]

Doubt it will. Rules will go to how they were before.

[Claire_Pendragon]

Doubt it will. Rules will go to how they were before.

Why would they beg so badly, to have the rules removed, to just do nothing different? Despite being caught attempting to break the laws repeatedly?
(Plus they were already working on these things back then anyways)

[Oscura]

Doubt it will. Rules will go to how they were before.

People don't change rules just to not test their limits.

Don't be this naive.

[ManuelBravo]

Well depends on area and type of services. Seems most are targeted towards online streaming videos and such. Over all when people are paying for data their will probably won't notice most of the change. People who have unlimited data may be impacted the most. Worst case throttling may become the biggest issue. I'm in the west coast and certain companies are now giving disclosures in their advertisement that service will slow down based on usage.

[Claire_Pendragon]

Plus most of the changes happened more recently in other countries.
It wont "go back to the good ol days".

Personally internet should be either treated like phone services, or postal services. (Currently being treated like the phone services, which is what started NN)
And I more so think both the phone and internet should be more like the postal services, where you can choose between the governments regulated version, or a business version.

The government can adjust to demand, and the business can decide if they want to try and compete.

It's all fair then.
(The only exception is that the government literally isnt allowed to step in and make any laws towards the businesses if this is the system we go with, to prevent a reverse problem from occurring.)
Right now the system is just a monopoly with how they work together, so there is almost no competition for them, except in a small percentage of places.

[StarRosie]

At the moment? It won't. All the vote did was push that they are going to change the rules. The rules have not instantly changed after the vote, it's gonna be a while before anything is done and most likely Pai and the FCC will be taken to court over how they handled this whole thing and the vote will most likely get reversed. If you would like a rather informative article that explains "what happens next?" then I recommend this one by TechCrunch. They go over a lot of what is gonna go down over the next few months and what to expect.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/14/th...mobilenavtrend

But do not give up and become complacent! The fight isn't over. Continue to speak up and make your voice heard on this issue!

[ReclusiveMage]

Ashit Pie, this is your fault.

[Shouko]

Ashit Pie, this is your fault.

Technically it's Trumps/Obama's fault for putting him onto the FCC, and then making him Chairman.