The FCC repeals its net neutrality rules - The Washington Post

[EricHiggin]

TH3-D0S3R said:

EricHiggin said:

I'm afraid of that as well. Fixing the regulations as they were would have been much better, and maybe that's what will end up happening, but doing nothing clearly isn't going to solve the problem. What the right answer is exactly I don't know, but what was in place, did a few things well, but hurt many others.

I think if they would have kept the core elements of NN in act alongside expanding the web to better improve rural areas in a new bill/proposal, no one would be complaining. I know a friend of mine who lives in Alaska, and he talks about how even bad networks here are a million times better than his networks back home. There is a reason that BLOCKBUSTER of all places still exists in Alaska today.

However, where it stands now with no new proposal in sight, everyone has a right to be outraged.

I agree. Everyone should be mad. The problem is that NN wasn't well thought out to begin with. They clearly only paid attention to a few factors and didn't worry about how that might effect everything else. When I read about Google fiber being $70 a month or something like that, it makes me sick. I almost pay that much for a lousy "5MB" DSL connection. The prices are laid out poorly. People should be paying way more for faster speeds, so that profit can be used to expand the network. Now that the prices are so cheap, nobody is going to be ok with paying more. They need to however. That money also needs to go into the network and not into corporate piggy banks.