The FCC plan to undo its net neutrality rules

Re:The FCC plan to undo its net neutrality rules by cmdrfred on Thursday April 27, 2017 @09:30AM (#14211292)

Something like obfsproxy[0] or a straight up http proxy wrapped in SSL and a VPN service that acquires and rotates new IP addresses regularly would prevent this. It would be an expensive game of wack a mole for the ISPs at least, personally I'd just set up a digital ocean droplet for my traffic. Less technical users can employ Streisand[1].

[0]https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/TrafficObfuscatio... [1]https://github.com/jlund/streisand

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Re:The FCC plan to undo its net neutrality rules by outsidetheparty on Thursday April 27, 2017 @10:40AM (#14211801)

For that reason, the algorithm wouldn't be "throttle specific services", it'd be "throttle everything except for the specific services that we own or that have paid us the toll."

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Re:The FCC plan to undo its net neutrality rules by cmdrfred on Thursday April 27, 2017 @01:23PM (#14213197)

So essentially throttle 99% of the internet? Comcast already doesn't throttle it's cable or phone service and doesn't include it in your bandwidth. Why would anyone buy a larger bandwidth package than the throttle rate? So they can pay their bill faster?

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Re:The FCC plan to undo its net neutrality rules by ascagnel_ on Thursday April 27, 2017 @02:35PM (#14213727)

Not necessarily. They could whack-a-mole the services to such a degree that they become non-viable commercially.

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