I remember now, the last time I watched it was when I was up in Portland last fall in a Chinese restaurant with a bunch of Chinese tourists. None of them were watching it either.
What you "think" Net Neutrality is doesn't matter in the slightest. There are the facts, and there are misconceptions of the facts. Nothing more, nothing less. Net Neutrality is all about money. It's about allowing internet service providers to control the flow of content. Currently the internet is unregulated. Every website is treated exactly the same. Or it is legally supposed to be. Some companies illegally control the flow of the internet. When Comcast throttles Netflix in your home, that's a violation. When TMobile allows people to play Pokemon Go without using data on their phones, that's a violation. They are not legally allowed to do that. Every website is supposed to be treated exactly the same in how it is provided to you. If we allow ISPs to control which websites we can view and which ones we cannot view, that would be a huge blow to what the internet is, what it stands for, and what it can be in the future. Net Neutrality is the only thing keeping companies like Comcast from doing whatever the fuck they want with your internet connection. At this point, a free and unregulated internet is a basic human right. We cannot live without the internet in modern society. It is our access to the world, and the only reason why companies like Comcast want to do away with that freedom is because they're bleeding money from lost revenue on television, and they want to start monetizing every little thing they can get their hands on with the web.
And boom... this just came out.... right now. http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/26/technology/fcc-net-neutrality/index.html This is what happens when you put the fucking Associate General Council for Verizon in as the head of the FCC. How much you want to bet this dude passes a bunch of pro-ISP laws and then bails to go back to work for Verizon?
@Natebishop3 I'm very aware what it is. Just threw what I did out for fun. You remember 'fun' right? I have clients in government and many in media but thanks for more education. #priceless
So you post a fundamentally wrong post about what Net Neutrality is, and then you get offended when I say that you're wrong? Cool story bro.
And this is why the head of the mother fucking FCC needs to be an elected by the state! I remember ehen Bill Clinton chosen head of the FCC changed terrestrial radio market owmershup rules, thus allowing Clear Channel to buy up tons of radio stations. Then they were only competing against themselves. I was in the SFSU broadcast production school at the time. And suddenly, all the low paid internships for radio stations didn't fucking exist any more. The means of communications Americans are supposed to own are used to fuck us even more.
They are literally harvesting our organs using the politicians we pay to represent us and we do NOTHING about it. I stopped yelling about this a while ago because people are apathetic as hell.
It's because they figured out that they can literally buy elections. We will never take back this country until we pass campaign finance reform. The people simply can't/won't outspend a corporation that wants to place an inside man into government. They shape the message, they leak misinformation, and they throw as much money as it takes to bury their opponents. It has been going on for god only knows how long. But not only do they control the politicians, they also control the media. In other words.... we're fucked.
I'm sorry. I'll keep it to basketball. My libertarian socialist roots ate showing! I'll be in the back with Noam Chomsky!
The thread isn't about basketball though. It's about ESPN laying people off. I think Net Neutrality is relevant because I think a repealing of NN will have a very real impact on companies like ESPN.
Starts tomorrow. I've been watching the NFL Network in the morning while getting ready so I'm not sure how much time ESPN has put into promoting the draft. It's incredibly popular though. They'll get their viewers.
