How does Net Nutrality affect SE/XIV?

[LaurieB]

Yes. I have taken them to court over it. The local government has no jurisdiction because we are outside of the city limits and the mayor has directly told me that. He has said that he is open to anyone coming here, but they will not. They have plenty of electric lines that they rent space on inside the limits to run cable, but they refuse to do it here. Cox, ATT, Century Link, no dsl lines, no less restrictive Satellite service, none of them want to compete with Hughes.net, that is the company out here. We have cell phone service but Verizon is the only one, and they want 185.00 a month for a 15GB, with large overage fees if we use it.

[Freyt]

Yes. I have taken them to court over it. The local government has no jurisdiction because we are outside of the city limits and the mayor has directly told me that. He has said that he is open to anyone coming here, but they will not. They have plenty of electric lines that they rent space on inside the limits to run cable, but they refuse to do it here. Cox, ATT, Century Link, no dsl lines, no less restrictive Satellite service, none of them want to compete with Hughes.net, that is the company out here. We have cell phone service but Verizon is the only one, and they want 185.00 a month for a 15GB, with large overage fees if we use it.

My dude, if you live outside of city limits, perhaps you should move.

[LaurieB]

I also might add what I took them to court over is misusing federal funds. So, this issue has nothing to do with anyone else people say. Not true. If you want to let a person or company have free reins that has already misappropriated federal funds, in the billions, then there is something really wrong with that. Like letting someone that stole from you before come right back in and say "don't worry, it will the same as it always was, we promise, nothing will change we won't do it again". That is the premise this is under. That is why what they did then and now, they now report to no one. Light hand means five finger discount.

[LaurieB]

Not a dude. And I do not want to sell my house here. I love this house. I shouldn't have to make a decision to get rid of my house and go through selling it and buying another when they were given money to expand out here and did not use it. Months of selling, buying, moving no. I can't do that.

[Canadane]

Nothing will happen really.
Unless you're American, I guess. Then something might happen maybe.

[Gemina]

I don't know much about it. However my opinion is it is just another money making scheme similar to gas, food, tobacco etc. Where they take advantage of the population's dependency on such things by figuring exactly how much they can milk us for before we finally say eff you!

When games like FFXIV starts losing subs because customers can no longer afford it, it affects the companies involved. Restructuring happens, they downsize, and people ultimately lose jobs. Then the economy suffers because no one is spending money; unemployment rate goes up, along with personal and national debt.

How's my aim? We are in dire need of a Robin Hood. These greedy fvcks really need to be put in their place.

[Qojon]

Some places are suing to take power from the federal government (cities and states do not have the constitutional authority to rewrite American immigration policy...

That's just political blustering on their part. They don't really have a leg to stand on since they're in violation of federal law. I really wish they'd get around to teaching those cities some hard lessons, because illegal immigrants are a huge threat to public safety. In my previous career, I'd often process a lot of guys who were in for kidnapping, rape, robbery, burglary, DUI, DWI, child molestation, etc. I'd hand them over to ICE to put them on the bus to Mira Loma, but then I'd see them in the jails again a few months later. There's also the recent travesty of justice in San Francisco. Such a traitorous city, they even tore down that woman's memorial. Although, their mayor just died. Poetic justice.

But as far as net neutrality, I'm not really worried. I've had the same ISP for over ten years.

[Qojon]

When games like FFXIV starts losing subs because customers can no longer afford it, it affects the companies involved. Restructuring happens, they downsize, and people ultimately lose jobs. Then the economy suffers because no one is spending money; unemployment rate goes up, along with personal and national debt.

How's my aim? We are in dire need of a Robin Hood. These greedy fvcks really need to be put in their place.

Another option is encouraging state governments that do a better job with their spending. My state is a prime example where they spend 24 billion a year on people that don't even belong in the United States. In order to make up for their wasteful spending, we're forced to pay a tax on nearly everything.

[micropanther7]

For EU countries, the European Comission is committed to net neutrality: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-...net-neutrality.

Nothing will happen really.
Unless you're American, I guess. Then something might happen maybe.

Yes I know I'm cynical, distrustful and worrying for nothing.. but I can picture big companies like Sky, Virgin etc rubbing their hands together gleefully at this kind of news, quite easily. Where money is involved, it's only a matter of time... so the bigger the stink people create the better, even if you're NOT from the US, I'm sure plenty of people from around the world will be pretty vocal in their support, and we should be

[CrystalRainbow]

It's a 2 way street which makes things a lot harder then you think.

There are now basicly 3 party vs 2.
before it was You and content. ISP got there cut by giving you the connections.
Now lets say I want some google content. But comcast wants to charge its customer $2 a day to access google. Then google goes ok find comcast we will be jerks because we beleive in net nutrality. If you charge your customers to get to google we will just charge such a rate to comcast but free to other providers so people switch ISP.

But that only works where there is more then 1 ISP. and large parts of the USA only have 1 of not 2 ISP choices.

Also google could be like oo you want to charge your customers $2 to access google over your fast lain to to google. the fine we disagree with this charage so we will throttle your connetions to google so people paying the fast lane rate will get pissed off at comcast for not providing the services.

Honestly we will not see many changes for 6-12 months. because right now it would be easiser to over turn. if company started pushing out wroste case people would bitch and it would get over turned very quickly which it still might.
Also not all Republicans support this.