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People in rural Texas can get gigabit fiber internet for 80/month, why do I need Net Neutrality again?
by bigtex 3y ago
People in rural Texas can get gigabit fiber internet for 80/month, why do I need Net Neutrality again?
- wtallis 3y agoNet neutrality isn't about the raw speeds and prices; it's about discrimination for or against certain ways of using the service.
- Cody-99 3y agoHaving gigabit fiber for $80 a month has nothing to do with net neutrality. Not sure why you would think having fiber means net neutrality isn't needed or desirable. You seem a little confused about what net neutrality means!
- salawat 3y agoWhere? I was lucky to see something else other than HughesNet.
- acdha 3y agoThat’s uncommon in most of the country but it also misses the point: it’s about access. Comcast and Verizon tried to double-charge Netflix for access to their customers and that instinct needs to be blocked because otherwise every MBA looking to juice their quarterly numbers is going to look for opportunities to do it. There’s also a privacy angle: ISPs used to mine search data and even inject tracking cookies into HTTP traffic. That’s less of an issue now with HTTPS so widely used but they still mine TLS host names and would no doubt do anything else which advertisers will pay for as long as it’s legal.
- gnicholas 3y agoAmazing; when will this come to Silicon Valley? There are parts of Menlo that have fiber service, but the rest of us are stuck in a Comcast monopoly (where $80/mo gets you 75/20 service).