Net Neutrality fell
- Thread starter Shadow Reaper
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the internet is changing, its becoming a crap sandwich and we are all going to have to take a bite
Beerjerker
Grand Admiral
Don't panic yet, fellas. The information super highway ran okay in 2014 before nothing-to-do-with-neutrality was a thing.
Han Burgundy
Space Marshal
I have a feeling that some crazyperson is going to attempt to give Mr. Pai a bit of lead poisoning very soon...
I hope not for he needs to undo his foolish blunder once he sobers up.
Anyone have any recommendations for traffic encryption that doesn't look like traffic encryption?
closest thing I can think of is a vpn
Your best bet would be to use some sort of VPN to a school or business and use them as a relay to the final destination.
That was also before a lot of the ISP consolidation happened.
Metal-Muffin
Space Marshal
I was under the impression that a VPN would be useless because the VPN traffic still has to go thru your ISP- and with the fall of net neutrality they could still block the traffic for what-ever reason. Do I just have an oversimplified understanding of this?
The only traffic that doesn't go through your ISP, would be service that you get from another ISP. You simply can't get rid of the ISP in the middle, however, if you're using VPN with an encrypted connection, the ISP will not know what you're doing, or who are you dealing with (other than the VPN server).
However, VPN will not do you much good for the purposes of bypassing the slowlane, as that's not up to your connection, but the protection racket money paid by each individual website. So if your connection to youtube is slow because youtube isn't paying, the VPN providers connection to youtube will also be slow because youtube isn't paying. However, you might be able to bypass the slowlane to sites outside of U.S. and away from the grubby tendrils of the ISP overlords.
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All i can say is im glad i live in japan off base..... Japanese internet could never be better.
ISPs were extorting content services to get double paid on bandwidth.
The same will happen again as soon as the public stops paying attention. Roughly 2 weeks from now probably. ;)
Beerjerker
Grand Admiral
Let me get the world's tiniest violin tuned up for Google having to spend some of its bean bag chair budget on the bandwidth they are using. That's not extortion and that's not double paid. If content services needed people to stick up for them, maybe they could try providing better services and content instead of steadily providing worse.
I'm okay with being wrong on this if I am. In 2 weeks, I can go back reading books as a pass time if I have to.
HeadClot
Grand Admiral
So - There are several states suing the FCC and some guy named Pai right now. Net neutrality is not dead yet...
Bigcracker
Space Marshal
I believe we still have congress and if a new president comes into office in 2020 that is in favor of Net Neutrality this can all be reversed, all they would have to do is sign their name on a paper and show their work to the camera like a preschooler..
Currently California,Delaware,Hawaii,Illinois,Iowa,Kentucky,Maine,Maryland,Massachusetts,Mississippi,New York,North Carolina,Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia and Washington are suing the current administration and looking to set up their own Net Neutrality laws on the state level like they did with the Paris climate stuff. I mean when you get Mississippi and California to agree on something you know you might of fucked up...
HeadClot
Grand Admiral
You know why those states are suing the FCC? Municipal broadband are in those states. They have opted out of corporate broadband and the FCC wants to shove that down their necks.
So basically rip up or sign over state made and owned lines that make a large chunk of money for the cities and states.
so, I'm going to get billed extra to download all these fucking snowflakes now?