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This is horrible. Being a developer, I make money off building fast web based applications. It sucks because the fast part is now out of my control. I can write
by websitescenes 13y ago
This is horrible. Being a developer, I make money off building fast web based applications. It sucks because the fast part is now out of my control. I can write the best code ever and it will run slow unless I pay for provider preference. This will cost small companies dearly and rewards large ones unfairly. Why must our courts and political system line the pockets of the already rich? Now is the time to aid and promote innovation not stunt and slow it.
- websitescenes 13y agoIt's like indirectly saying the provider can charge for any content they want. You don't pay, then they won't traffic it. It's like censorship, protectionism and a bunch of other old world BS rolled into one. I'm livid.
- njharman 13y agoBeing a developer you should really know the difference between "running speed", "network speed", and that total perceived speed has never been under your complete control. end user machines vary in power, end users have various latency and throughputs, networks get congested, etc. But you are right, an internet without net-neutrality sucks balls.
- websitescenes 13y agoI know, but now we can't even manipulate those things for better performance. You can have the best server, network and code but it won't matter if the provider doesn't give you preference. That's the issue. Takes what little control we have, as developers, away.
- gtirloni 13y agoIn fact, their proposal is that you'll have even more control. Just get a signed contract and they will bump your traffic on top of the rest of the peasants.
- jjoonathan 13y agoGiven the state of the US telecom market (obsolete infrastructure, lackluster innovation, record profits) do you think that the extra money they get from you will go towards infrastructure or fat pockets? "Create the sickness, sell the cure" is the business model I see being most profitable in this scenario. The contract you negotiate will be to avoid throttling, not to access speeds that would be unavailable in a parallel universe with net neutrality. Choice != control when someone else writes the rules.
- websitescenes 13y agoI love this comment. Right on
- dclowd9901 13y agoThis was needlessly pedantic. We all know what's within our control, and never accounted for a greedy carrier to choke the pipes.
- rayiner 13y agoYou make money building web based applications that rely entirely on someone else's very expensive communications networks. Their networks have value without your applications, but your applications have no value without their networks. Why shouldn't they be able to dictate whatever terms they want? Why should the government intervene to artificially give you more leverage?
- websitescenes 13y agoI already pay to use the networks. I pay monthly, and very dearly. Why should I pay again? Isn't traffic just traffic? Why must it be differentiated?
- harryh 13y agoA first class ticket on an airplane costs a lot more than a coach seat. Lot's of similar services have different prices.
- kvinnako 13y agoWell, to keep it in the analogy, this is what the world without nn sounds like - "I bought a economy ticket but I am reaching lot late than the one who bought a coach ticket." It's not that I am getting a tight seat or shitty service. I am reaching late to my destination. That means eventually everyone would have to pay more depending on the whim of the carrier.
- harryh 13y agoExpress service on Amtrak costs more than the slower service. It's not the whim of the carrier. It's what the carrier can negotiate. Why should the US Gov't be part of that negotiation?
- icebraining 13y agoBut if I don't mind arriving later to pay less for a ticket, why should I be prevented by the State from doing so?