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>We wouldn't have services like Netflix or Facebook or Google if NN had not been in place. I'm astonished at the FUD I've seen recently over NN. Netflix, Faceb
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>We wouldn't have services like Netflix or Facebook or Google if NN had not been in place.
I'm astonished at the FUD I've seen recently over NN.
Netflix, Facebook, Google and the rest of the internet predated NN. NN started in 2015.
- Goronmon 9y agoThe current regulations around Net Neutrality have only officially existed for that long. Previous attempts at regulation happened before that, and the principles around net neutrality were how the Internet worked for a long time until ISPs began to go a different direction. So, we've had lowercase net neutrality for basically the entire existence of the Internet. But the uppercase Net Neutrality has only been around for a couple years, but came into existence because we were losing the lowercase version.
- 8note 9y agoexactly. before 2015, you had to pay Comcast extra if you wanted a package that included access to Google, and even more if you wanted reasonable speeds to get to your Facebook feeds those were the golden days that created the internet. remember when Microsoft payed out to isps to close down access to altavista so they could get more users to use Bing?