net neutrality is dead in US

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-net-neutrality-20140114,0,522106.story

Welp, so much for distbb. I doubt tor will last much longer. Time to start browsing the net using stego-proxies that watch for hidden content in images on forums.

Or just move to a country that isn't shit.

Net neutrality is dead everywhere cause it was never any issue anywhere else. It doesn't matter at all. It hasn't mattered for the last 50 years and it doesn't matter now.

It's not as if that bill would have magically made everything better. You'd just have another entity controlling the strings, and your curses would be addressed to M*AA and RI*A instead of Comc*st and Veri*on.

Net neutrality was only an issue in the United States cause the United States is the only country in the world where industry has the culture of and knows how to manipulate public opinion so powerfully to get what it wants. It's like the whole HCF vs Sugar issue that no one has even heard of or cares about anywhere else.

>>4
It's better if the entity is held accountable to a law that is written, publicly available, and not shit. Now the rules are gone. They can do whatever they want. All your us-bros will be gone soon. Like our china-bros and iran-bros. ;_;

>>6
No they won't. Stop worrying. The only thing that will happen is you'll see this for the farce it all was.

I bet the jews did this!!

>>7
You don't need to confirm or deny my judgement, but I don't think you live in the US. Take away the rule "shall not block content that doesn't break the law", and they'll find a way to make a profit.

The hacker community is underrepresented in the population as a whole, so I can understand why we have no say in the law. But hopefully there's enough of a shift in the demographics of internet users so we matter more as customers to corporate ISPs. Anyways, brb, archiving the internet while I can...

>>6
Sure, being held accountable to laws is good. But if the entity in control is also the one that writes that law, the ``not shit'' part is just wishful thinking.

Think of it this way: would you rather have de facto control of the internet by those who hate Netflix, or by those who hate political dissidence?

>>10
I see you're point.

>>9
No such rule exists where I am, and no one cares. No such rule exists in the U.S either. Net neutrality tries to bring such a rule in, that is its point. The rule does not exist today, and the situation is O.K. The rule is being brought in for other reasons >>10 suggests some avenues of thought.

There's only one kind of person that shall control the internet.....

weee--vwerr--se--e nnennnencoorooronrooo

>>1

The forget about the free market. If ISPs abuse their power to much, they will open a way for the competing alternatives to Internet. Basically, Internet is already too old, so we all dream about a shiny new standard for networks. Just imagine the possibility for start-ups, when Internet finally fails.

>>15

start-ups

Back to HN.

>>15
It would be nice to see a push for mesh nets.

>>17
You know what would be cool? Wired mesh nets. Savage, self-healing mesh nets connecting your white home. Crossing under your white lawn. Being used to download music by your white daughter.
And the government can't do shit since they're savage. The mesh net router grabs your packets and encrypts them with its coprocessor.
The primal mesh nets finally dominate all households. They deliver barbaric shows to your TV and you are forced to be their user.
Such is the uprise of White Man.

>>17
You know what would be cool? Wired mesh nets. Savage, self-healing mesh nets connecting your white home. Crossing under your white lawn. Being used to download music by your white daughter.
And the government can't do shit since they're savage. The mesh net router grabs your packets and encrypts them with its coprocessor.
The primal mesh nets finally dominate all households. They deliver barbaric shows to your TV and you are forced to be their user.
Such is the downfall of Old Internet.

>>18,19
5 star posts.