Net neutrality is...

Day 2,658, 15:34 Published in Czech Republic Czech Republic by DaLe

...well, reading comments and stuff, e.g. where I also posted myself:

http://www.pcgamer.com/fcc-approves-net-neutrality-everyone-rejoices/

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mathonan/now-the-internet-belongs-to-us-and-to-politics

Net neutrality is apparently according to many in the U.S. for Hollywood and Cable TV to use the broadband internet as their digital distribution net, for free, while customers expect dedicated T5 lines to handle all the streams in the world, of course, ideally also for free. And comments where I mentioned the patriot act, anti-trust laws (in cases of alleged really shaddy stuff by e.g. ISPs) as well the issue of service provision in small municipalities being in the middle of nowhere (expecting some private investor to carry a top-notch service provision), well, those comments on Buzzfeed posted with Facebook-account disappeared.

Myself, I am on a 100Mbit/s line at home (Berlin, Germany), so I could (and somewhat do) care little about guys with 2Mbit/s lines trying to each download several (HD) video streams at once, and that even in terms of me caring more about ping than being able to download gigas within minutes any time of the day. But I do want to point out that if we are talking in terms of "independent internet" and stuff, local lines getting clogged up by HD streams is actually contrary to the whole "easy and fast internet access for stuff internetian", meaning that wood bridges and "mud" driveways are not capable of handling a constant flow of monster trucks, regardless of how you ideologically call it. Now of course, the next thing would be to scientifically pinpoint stuff (which would be for me personally at my level of knowledge a bit too much, but I still seem to be more IT literate about these kind of things than many a guy actually getting paid for knowing these kind of things). So yeah, just want to say that the handling of such issues seems rather ridiculous, especially if the ISPs were really on about data volume and not content (as some do present the issue to be about without actually mentioning how the patriot act does not infringe on content, if it does not, which does not seem likely). Then again, ISPs are probably full of engineers and have barely to no PR, which would partially explain the set of confusion, but myself not so much on about the issue of particular blame in that confusion and people with 2Mbit/s demanding for upper internet users to have all the HD streams in the world, as I am on about it being seriously ridiculous that many an user (with small data volume useage) gets stuck in lag (connection-side) because someone couldn't be bothered to pay for premium cable-TV (for about same amount of money as broadband internet connection) and now wants click-on-demand HD streams (regardless of what connection they are on), and all that paid for magically I suppose.