The battle for Net Neutrality is back in action, I can't do much cus I'm not an American but a lot of you guys definitely can:

[uh-oh]

lets say worst case scenario right

comcast/spectrum/verizon/whatever internet provider decides to make youtube.com a part of a special package. to view youtube you need to pay 10 dollars more a month.

that seems shitty.

but it would also lead to other sites becoming bigger right. vimeo might be free, and could advertise that. also ISP's could become more competitive maybe? like maybe at&t or some company that has high speed internet, just not AS fast, like 15 mb/s down speeds, is 30 bucks a month, but you can view everything. meanwhile comcast or some fiber company can give you ridiculous download speeds, but they also want to charge you extra for using such and such

i dunno, it would suck for sure, but in all honesty i think a company like google/youtube would be easier to reason with, than the FCC lol. if people started boycotting their sites because they sell out for pay to use packages, we'd probably have more success than trying to get anything done through a governmental agency

but im a nerd who thinks there should be no FCC, and as little government regulations as possible.

but like i stated earlier in the thread im not sure how any of this works

[Objective]

Originally Posted by uh-oh

but it would also lead to other sites becoming bigger right. vimeo might be free, and could advertise that.

Yeah... That sounds great in theory but that's not how it's going to work. In order to force this on to you Vimeo.com will be slow as fuck while Youtube still getting the upper hand. This is pretty bad for up and coming services that could potentially be shut down from the start due to other sites getting priority or slow after watching a few videos or checking out their content so you end up at a competitor instead so you can actually do what you were intended to do. They could for example make eBay slow as fuck while Amazon get priority, moving entire people to a competitor. During elections they could give priority to what videos/articles/sites you're going to see most of or get first after search results even more than before and so on too, it's going to be a pretty shitty fuckfest. They could also give you only 2.5gb access a week/month/whatever to other sites while Youtube is free realm to view as much as you want without your internet getting capped, unless you of course upgrade to a package that got both of the services you want on it. That's why it's important to sign the petition on the site and/or call/visit/email your representatives in your respective states.

People will probably boycott but that's already expected, most people can't live without their precious Instagram, Facebook, Youtube etc. so it's not a huge loss as you'd earn more in the long run. And in areas where Comcast, Verizon and/or AT&T have monopolies there's really nothing you can do. A lot of ISP's gets their internet speeds from other companies like Comcast and AT&T and sell it to you cheaper since they're smaller and can't spike their prices up due to being popular so they'd still have to abide by their rules.

They will also be able to monitor the way you use internet in a completely different way too, so forget about the false sense of privacy you already have now because with this in full effect you will have none whatsoever if they want to. This isn't a conspiracy anymore, it's happening right in front of your eyes as we speak.

You don't have to be a nerd to be against FCC, most people are against this and that's why it's important to show exactly how much you hate this proposition. You can watch the video I posted earlier to get a sense of how it'll work in practice and get a TL;DR of it all. On https://www.battleforthenet.com/ there's a bunch of sources and so on further explaining what's going on, you can check out videos or articles they've linked to there as well.