Net Neutrality Day of Action: Help Preserve the Open Internet

Re:Net Neutrality Day of Action: Help Preserve the Open Inte... by hoorayimhelping on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @07:34PM (#14757588)

Workflow:

1. I pay an ISP to provide me with internet service

2. Google cuts off services from my ISP I've already paid.

3. I call my ISP and say "google told me to complain to you," they say, "thank you for your feedback."

4. I look for a competitor. There aren't any, or the competitors don't suit my needs. Which is why this problem happens in the first place. If I could go to a competitor, I would. This is the key assumption that the whole scheme is based on and from what I understand, for most Americans, it is flat wrong.

5. I don't use my ISP's bandwidth cause Google is blocking it. I've paid them money. My continual complaints tie up a cheap call center which inconveniences them very slightly, if at all. They still have my money, plus the costs for the services they're offering me just plummeted cause I'm not using any bandwidth cause I can't access the internet. They win, I lose.

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Re:Net Neutrality Day of Action: Help Preserve the Open Inte... by nine_k on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @07:48PM (#14757657)

For the technically literate, three letters: VPN.

Unfortunately, they (we) are a minority.

Also, it's double expense, especially if you do something like Netflix.

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Re:Net Neutrality Day of Action: Help Preserve the Open Inte... by mayneack on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @08:16PM (#14757799)

What's to stop them from de-prioritizing or blocking traffic recognizable as VPN?

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Re:Net Neutrality Day of Action: Help Preserve the Open Inte... by dingo_bat on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @09:04PM (#14758040)

Also VPNs can be blocked easily. Look at China.

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Re:Net Neutrality Day of Action: Help Preserve the Open Inte... by RugnirViking on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @07:15AM (#14795657)

In china it is part of normal life to use a VPN. They are most definitely not blocked.

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Re:Net Neutrality Day of Action: Help Preserve the Open Inte... by AmIFirstToThink on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @07:44PM (#14757637)

You can use cell phone data.

Or buy internet from phone company instead of cable company.

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Re:Net Neutrality Day of Action: Help Preserve the Open Inte... by brokenmachine on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @07:54PM (#14757681)

These are both not reasonable alternatives for all people.

Cell phone data is usually much more expensive and often people don't have a lot of choice on what connection options they have.

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