Net Neutrality ruling.. comments?

[RawAlex]

More than anything, it is a ruling that shows that the FCC doesn't have control over the content on the internet, which is good for all of us. The downside is that this shows what could happen with .XXX if it came along, as companies could choose not to give carriage to material from those domains to save network bandwidth.

I suspect this will go to the next court level, the FCC won't leave it alone.

[tony404]

People keep talking about fcc like the bad guy. lol They want the net open. Without net neutrality the broadband providers decide who gets what bandwidth. They can decide all porn is going to be at 56k speed and charge for whatever they like. Porn wastes lots of bandwidth online. Youtube and hulu may have never happened in a non open net.Its not a good thing.
These companies seem to forget the government gave them tax subcities (I know its spelled wrong lol) to build the infrastructure. This could be alot worst than .xxx.

[RawAlex]

Originally Posted by tony404

People keep talking about fcc like the bad guy. lol They want the net open. Without net neutrality the broadband providers decide who gets what bandwidth. They can decide all porn is going to be at 56k speed and charge for whatever they like. Porn wastes lots of bandwidth online. Youtube and hulu may have never happened in a non open net.Its not a good thing.
These companies seem to forget the government gave them tax subcities (I know its spelled wrong lol) to build the infrastructure. This could be alot worst than .xxx.

Tony, I think you need to look at things realistically. None of the ISPs are going to pre-build your content and check to see if it is porn. They filter by protocol, not by content. To filter video, they would have to filter all video. To filter flash, they would have to filter all flash. It's the reasons why .XXX is such a risk, because it does allow for easy filtering, which is not currently possible.

What the ISPs do is filter torrent traffic, P2P / distributed networking stuff like Skype, and so on. Those are the true huge bandwidth wasters, and that is what they are looking to get rid of. They aren't going to filter port 80 material, the cost isn't worth the saving.