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The net neutrality regulations imposed utility-style regulation on Internet service providers such as Comcast, AT&T and Verizon to prevent them from favoring their own digital services over their rivals – for instance, by blocking or slowing certain content. If they do decide to block content...wouldn't a VPN be able to get past the local ISP's? I used one in China to bypass their internet censorship to access sites like FB, Youtube, ect. I would pick a location - usually Hong Kong, Tokyo or Seoul and it would trick the "whatever it is" into thinking I was accessing the net from another location and not from inside China.
If you want to infringe (which they paid to do) you have to take away that part of the internet. By shutting off the voice that could stop them from getting more money by blocking the pages that talk about stopping them, or just talk about things they don't agree with. It's really easy to imagine stuff like 'black lives matter' or 'synagogue' or 'anti-war with north Korea' or 'police state' being no-no words in a year or two if they get away with what they want. Nobody is supposed to notice when stuff like that can't get said. But by then, it's too late to say anything about it.
Got a minute to read?Take a look at what's to come written by someone in a related field. Everyone knew some kind of detail or plan would appear at some point in January, and so, as predicted, it has happened & now been outlined below.Wardah: This does get rid of your fear of the religgo ISP, because it gets rid of any and all isps other than the ones here now.If you read through this, you'll soon see how sinister this whole thing is going to get & when/how it will do so. The following is NOT written by me, (all thing in quote below is very well written, but not by me) I am adding a quote from an article by a guy who's name is likely a bit of a swear soooooooooooooo:"*tl;dr: This is part of a five step process to turn broadband data in the US into the monetization platform cable TV had. This is due to cord cutting. Source : multiple contacts in the industry including myself to an extent *Edit: Step 3 is happening way sooner than expected. Check out the video in another thread and let me know if you notice anything interesting about the language used at the endMost people are missing the bigger picture here, and it's not about slowing speeds across the board.The real goal here is to get all data under one umbrella, then impose data caps (extremely low ones), then use the repeal of Net Neutrality to push cable-like packages for things like Netflix and Twitch to have those sites avoid counting against the cap.The push to get all mobile and otherwise non-broadband data classified as broadband is to assure that any data you use on any device counts against a cap.The slow and imminent death of cable TV is the cause of this. The reason ISPs didn't start down this path earlier was because cord cutting wasn't nearly as prevalent five years ago, and companies still didn't have a clear cut path to monetizing the internet." (Cord Cutting started happening more & more as people got sick of paying for cable packages with channels they didn't use, paying for it but having to watch ads anyway & paying extreme amounts for shows that 'weren't that good'. It also got more cord cutting because fast internet meant people could watch what they wanted & play games/chat with friends and made TV less important in people's lives.)"So, this is just the next step. Look for LANGUAGE about caps to come up after midterms, and for aggressive bills to be pushed through allowing very low data caps nationwide.You will also see some sort of push to completely remove the possibility of start up ISPs. This will take form in an infrastructure bill severely limiting access to poles and underground junctions by new companies without direct permission from the existing ISPs that have cable on those poles.Step 1: repealing Net Neutrality. This allows them to offer packages that don't count against a data cap.Step 2: push to classify all data under one umbrella, so all data counts against said cap.Step 3: eliminate the possibility of local ISP startups or competition by making access to infrastructure either impossible, unreasonably expensive, or take far too much time for a new company to feasibly compete. Edit: To clarify, and to take from another post that I wrote before I saw the new video trying to propagate against local startup/municipal ISPs:As to the infrastructure side start looking for ads and bills being pushed to "focus on local safety and security" and to "improve infrastructure and roads", these are ways to pass things that don't let upstarts near the junctions, poles, and do the required splicing to actually get access to the existing network.Step 4: implement data caps. This will be the time where aggressive shilling will take place on the form of "everyone is using so much internet we have to. You can't just let these people take your internet!" It's the gamers/torrent-ers/those bad bad people who watch too much video! The internet is a finite resource & they're hogging it away from YOU! We can NEVER IMPROVE our infrastructure from how it was in 2000....it is YOU who must use less so others can have more! CAPS CAPS Improvement of technology is impossible & better service is impossible also, we must cap or no one will get anything ever again."Step 5: this is the end game that we are talking about when NN got thrown out. Majority of plans will have a 10-20 GB data plan monthly. Going over will be extremely expensive. Packages will be offered for different websites to not count against that cap. This is where you can expect to pay over 100$ a month for just internet for the same speeds you have now for unlimited access to only certain sites. Torrenting will clearly be hit extremely hard here, as will games.""Did you read the text wall?Do you believe it?Here's an ad that's actually already on air on TV now (if you live in Colorado somewhere)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjulAWmLmx0&feature=youtu.be(Just look at the video, don't scroll down someone curses it out immediately) So, with the ad that's real you can see the start of the predicted plan outlined above. Credible threat here...One of their cities got angry like that Chattanooga TN place & put up a "town broadband" because their politicians voted away the lawyers who were going to sue to stop the town. So, the ISPs are really ragey right now there & paid to put up that ad video that you can watch at that link there above. So, their plan is going along, but there are ways to thwart it.What does this do?Shows you that YOU can make a difference by calling your reps(It worked in Colorado, as proof with the ad--it was citizens standing up there that made their network possible)And VOTE VOTE VOTE. Get out there and start voting! This is a voting year, go register to do it because it works, then vote out the jerks who would do this. If it gets real cappy and costly like that, I won't be able to afford to come here, and I bet a few other people on this site are in the same boat who can't just shell out an extra 100/month just to have a peep at the Arena.