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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai reveals Net Neutrality repeal plan, vote on Dec. 14
Remember these things are slowly rolled out. Not overnight price increases. Most of this will be charged to the companies that provide content, who in turn raise their prices to the consumer sector. Telecom companies need another revenue stream. Buy expensive content creators, new revenue streams for existing infrastructure or both.kerpow said:
You act like customers have no power to sway the direction ISPs go on this topic, when in fact they (we) have all of the power. Yes, things will change but it doesn't mean its all doom and gloom. Imagine the public outrage and boycotting that will come if any ISP tries the stuff you all are worried about. I guess I'm just not a hand wringer.georgie01 said:
I’m all for small and limited government, and there are elements of net neutrality I don’t like, but in the absence of a replacement it needs to stay. We cannot have content in the hands of ISPs unless we also want the content to become profit driven.I think its going to be fine and look forward to watching the companies who try the things you've described fail.
Changes to the Internet, based on profit motivation, will likely be brought about in small doses, things that don’t seem too bad, or are at least tolerably bad. Then there will be another step. Rinse and repeat. And like any clever business tactic, by the time the changes have reached a level of ‘Oh wait, this sucks’, things will have already reached a level of near irreversibility. And the average person won’t really care anyway because they’ve become accustomed to it.
This approach happens endlessly in business, and government, and politics, and it happens because people are selfish and most people do things for themselves and will happily exploit others if they can. Very few people are there to serve others and do what’s best for them when it means a pay check is at stake.
So for something that is a national and even global service, to have decisions in hands of people who will take advantage of customers at every opportunity is a disastrous idea. The internet will change, guaranteed. If you’re saying you want these changes then fine, but it’s naive to think everything’s going to stay the same.
im sorry, but the internet should be an essential service, a right. It says something when Apple and every other tech company says this is a bad idea...
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FCC looks to scrap net neutrality rules, report says
You have to admit that in its purest form greed is awe inspiring. That certain repulsive companies would plunge us into a modern dark internet age.
The costs will without a doubt get passed on to consumers, squeezing those that already don’t have enough. Essentially a toll lane to the internet, and a new kind of paywall.
Thank you Apple for standing up to the companies that our own government will not protect us from.
Time to stand up behind Apple and draw a line in the sand. It’s never been so easy to fight back.
https://www.battleforthenet.com/?utm_source=AN&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=BFTNCallTool&utm_content=voteannouncement&ref=fftf_fftfan1120_30&link_id=0&can_id=99938e0e78ecbd59e0a8f02403bc2fb6&email_referrer=email_265023&email_subject=net-neutrality-dies-in-one-month-unless-we-stop-it
You can’t have access to my phone, you can’t break my privacy, and you can’t deny my right to acces the internet.
We the People are more powerful than your lobbyists will ever be!
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Video: Apple's iPhone X speakers vs. Samsung's Galaxy Note 8
But.....!
The S8 supports Samsung Sound and Android Sound. Both are obviously better because a tech blogger said so, and there was an Apples to oranges comparison by a paid testing company....
Bring on the Android fan boys, can’t wait to be told how much better their’s is on some fringe data point.
”Samsung Sound is louder underwater!”
hahahah, became a troll for a moment there...
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Apple reaping higher profits from each iPhone X sold than iPhone 8, analysis claims
Ummmm...
Even if the margins were the same or slightly lower than the 8, Apple would still make more profit. Did I miss something?
News Alert: Apple makes more profit on the $1200 phone than the $800 phone.
Next up, Apple makes more profit on a Mac Pro than a Mac Mini.
This can’t be allowed! Android wouldn’t do this to us! Journalists/analysts should have licenses that can be revoked for being dumb or lying.
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FBI director says smartphone encryption hindering investigations 'across the board'
I don’t know if you’re a child, disrespectful, joking, or all three. It’s easy for me to live in a fantasy realm as I have neither a daughter or surviving family.lkrupp said:
Ha,Ha,Ha hilarious. If the FBI came knocking your door you’d cry like a little girl and hand it over. So would most of us. And if your daughter were kidnapped to be sold into the sex slavery market and the FBI had a device that would tell them where she was you’d be screaming at them to decrypt it.LordeHawk said:I’m sorry....
My phone is an extension of my mind, it is memories, desires, history, location, fears, ambition, and stupid misguided anger.
No ONE, especially the government has any right to a single BIT of it.
Warrants are also rather inconvenient, so in a few famous words.
”Come and take it!”
I would love to see you even try, find out how angry you can make a sleeping beast. In the meantime, do your job the way us honest Americans do, hard work!
Give me liberty, or give me death. ߇갟縦amp;nbsp;
I vote, serve on juries and email my government officials, even though it’s a waste of time. I believe we must fight for the remaining rights left to us, as others don’t seem to care. Maybe I’m old fashioned in my early thirties, but doing nothing is stupid.
We shouldn’t leave government to be run by corrupt yuppies or overzealous spenders.
So no sir, I wouldn’t “cry like a little girl” or turn over my phone. It wouldn’t be very patriotic to reward bad behavior from a far overreaching government.
“The true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.”
