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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/comcast-throttling-bittorrent-was-no-big-deal-fcc-says/
Hold onto your butts everyone cause its gonna be a wild ride.
gorillaClutch
i'm not encouraging it, but if ajit pai got mule kicked in the fucking balls, no big deal....
erischilde
This article needs to be read. I haven't seen it yet and it says a whoooole bunch
antimattertape
I use deluge for uh... downloading linux distributions. It's much better than bit torrent and has no ads since it's open source.
Arrowheadx1
America should really revive tar and feathering.
Huhwhatcrazy
Again it's corporates over the people in America
zeusdemigod131
Sure, if you ignore all the evidence stating the contrary and common sense, then yeah, there's no proof/reason ISP's will throttle the net
MetalSkeletal
h0125t
so ... you gon use your second amandment to protect your rights? or only to shoot schools and black guys..?
niceguyplzdontfriendzone1
FartPoweredPogoStick
Wouldn't it be funny if it's THIS shit that sparks an actual revolt?
RoboCoonie
So, when do we overthrow our corrupt government?
ignatiusreilly
Internet in the US is só fucked up. I pay the equivalent of 40 dollars for 120 mb. I live in a 3rd world country.
theyar
They did this once, like ten years ago, to ease upload congestion. That's one of maybe two times any ISP ever did anything like this.
drakewarnock
So if he says they won't throttle, then when they inevitably do can we put Ajit Pai in jail for lying to everyone?
edglock21
Sure, just put every other politician in there with him. Oh, and former President - I liked my plan, but couldn't keep my plan...
Smayds
"Murdering people isn't murder" - murderer.
DoublevBomb
I'm sure this is a legitimate legal defense in some state.
dontgetallnineelevenaboutit
AgentLinch
They don't just throttle they threaten to cancel your service if you are caught using it.
DangerTrain
I mean, so it continues, really.
TrustMeImmaDogtor
The FCC won't let me be...
ThinkBackwards
Won't let me be me so let me see
TrustMeImmaDogtor
But it feels so empty without mom's spaghetti
jonestown
Says - The Ministry of Truth
DrShrinker
Chocolate rations are up.
RussianBot09706YesWeNameThem
If you bit torrent without a VPN you are at risk of action from the FBI so throttling should be the last of your worries. Get a fucking VPN.
qwertical
you know bit torrent isn't illegal right? like its used in game launchers, app updaters, etc. its great for distributing large files.
tosomethisisarandomcollectionofletters
VPN's sadly will not stop the throttle due to the information still having to go through the isp on its way back to you.
omh1
There is no guarantee it will help either way an ISP can just as easily throttle some or all VPNs
OverpricedCrayon
Time to fuckin rage
Pencildispencer
MediaMuerte
This guy was first appointed by Obama and he is a Nazi? Retard
Pencildispencer
TheFastpaws
This isn't realistic at all. His mouth can take much larger dicks then that.
Seph89
Those teeth probably get in the way.
ZKrock
Untamed64
I thought the Nazis hated jews
JimmyTheOverlyTouchyOrderly
thebillyofthewest
What does that mean
Gutsman25
Comcast can control the connection speed people will have when go to certain sites. Throttling is when they make it very slow.
Gutsman25
Also, they can throttle people's overall connection speed to "minimize network congestion".
thebillyofthewest
Ah I thought it said bit coin thank you
Appel99
I haven’t had that problem, but I’m BitTorrenting completely legal stuff.
DWandRFaremyspiritbeings
Comcast still throws interrupt bits every once in awhile when I'm torrenting, and I've never gotten up to my supposed download cap speed.
Misslnformation
They don't discriminate
DaCrazyBeggar
I'd lose speed connecting all the way to America anyway.
RatedMostHated
Can't wait for Elon musk to fly over in his spaceship and make a new internet
Leithoa
I trust benevolent oligarchs even less.
boudinthedog
Don’t you mean the muskynet?
StellarPsyke
Make our own internet, with blackjack and hookers!
Kimona007
How do we ask him to just go ahead and do it?
RatedMostHated
Tag him in Twitter. It's the way of the future
AntiEvil007
Does that mean that it passed?
HandoB4Javert
Hi. I'm from 2024 and Elon Musk is proving he's no business genius, among other things.
ZebraCockSandwich
I don't think he's a genius, but fuck it if he isn't the ONLY PERSON who CAN do something, who is ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING.
chicktracy
Be nice to him or youll be banned. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/04/06/open-sesame-unless-you-complain-about-your-smart-door-opener/
bippityboppitybuttsex
With blackjack... and hookers
imgurforants
Honestly, if startup ISPs could more easily thrive, there would be no need for net neutrality cuz everyone would leave comcast instantly.
ehoba666
Only if he stops throwing all his money away on the crappy cars they make
shiftTieTraveler
Or you can do it. Why can't someone like you invent something awesome? I believe you can do it.
bigdaddyfatpants
Good Ol Muskie
eroso
Isnt he alrdy on it, Outernet? Or was that a project of someone else?
RatedMostHated
Teslanet
Fairdinkums
Would he be allowed to do that? As in make something new and separate from whats already there?
slanger
I'm not positive, but I think the fcc regulates frequencies, which elon would need to broadcast satellite internet
RatedMostHated
Why wouldn't he be.. he's basically 2017 Jesus so far
BoxesofFoxes
Why not? Who's going to stop him?
DoublevBomb
I, for one, will welcome the Elonet.
CoderWithoutCaffeine
I don't understand how the government can regulate the internet is literally billions of private owned servers.
Jakius
"The Internet"? No. the ISP running one wire to your home? That's relatively easy regulation. That's where Title II is relevant.
CoderWithoutCaffeine
Well if they can make more money we are screwed greedy runs this world.
nonamejanie
I will so be all over that shit. He should start a donation page so we can help speed it up.
SirShmoopyofAwesomtown
Santa muskie
G1ngerBoy
Popular science once had an article about how the internet could basically be made free for everyone you just pay for the power of ur modem
FenyxKnight
Any sauce by chance?
G1ngerBoy
I wish especially with whats going on bright now. From what I remember tho it was something like daisychaining modems together
gaaaaalavant
He's already on it https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/4/15539934/spacex-satellite-internet-launch-2019
RyeInACan
Saw this yesterday. Made sure someone else didn't post it first. Turns out you did. Congrats on your upvotes.
BigFckingRocket
Upvote
tosomethisisarandomcollectionofletters
Honestly, until their banned, a locally formed internet is probably going to be the best option for us all.
LXA591
How do we access that?
TimmyDans
With Hookers and Blackjack
skiprains
Made me think BBS, bulletin board service. They're extinct now. In the old days that's that was there to use. Long live the Sysops!!
tosomethisisarandomcollectionofletters
Right think of how advance that tech could be in a small scale, like a private bbs for a small town.
OrangeLeft
I live an hour from the nearest metropolitan center. It's ATT, Spectrum, satellite or directed wireless. I'll have to pick speed or freedom.
triedtothinkofausernamethatwasntalreadytaken
And they will find a way to ban it just to force you to buy from them.
ironicchronic
They did it with radio wave frequencies... HAM radios a big no no
triedtothinkofausernamethatwasntalreadytaken
So we know they'll do it with the internet and it'll be legal they need to be stopped now and forever because they'll keep on trying
motorwaffle
Then Comcast will sue in a battle they can't win but that bankrupts the local organization.
DIngleberriesForBreakfast
FCC is already telling states that FCC rules need to apply to even municipal internet services.
DrunkSnowWhite
FCC rules dont say they're required to play favorites. Local could still choose to be neutral. Would still be up to trust, but it's possible
tosomethisisarandomcollectionofletters
Yup but they told them not to let people smoke pot and that worked so well. It's up to the states to hold their ground now.
Gamebuster19901
No, 10th Amendment
lcplspanky
I’m honestly kinda curious about this, I know how to make an intranet (not that it’s hard in any way), but the main problem would be 1/2
lcplspanky
Broadcast range (at least that I can think of). You can use blank pc towers as servers, but routers only broadcast so far. Would the 2/3
lcplspanky
Jerry rigged phone antennas work? And if so, is there another option to transmit with them than satellites, since I’m not guessing we can3/4
lcplspanky
Use any of those
DrunkSnowWhite
They've already sorta banned competition by making it illegal to lay new cables in certain regions, essentially banning new companies
Hiynastrike
In the perfect world, repealing net neutrality would be a laughing stock decision that just hemorrhage’s millions of dollars
tosomethisisarandomcollectionofletters
In all fairness, in a perfect world where the isp's truly wanted only whats best for the customer, the repeal would be a good thing. 1/2
WhiteningMcClean
Honestly it wouldn't even matter what their intentions were. In a perfect world, there'd be enough competition to encourage not throttling
tosomethisisarandomcollectionofletters
That however is obviously not the case as they've made clear in their past actions... a former head of Verizon cant have an unbias say...
realscrumpysteve
In a perfect world where ISPs actually cared, NN as a law wouldn't exist at all because there would be no need for it.
WellBehavedZombie
ISPs can throttle you for "not being a subscriber" if you pass through their nodes. Nothing is safe, I am Canadian and think that these ...
WellBehavedZombie
regulations will affect me, and Canadian business' as American ISPs can attack internet companies this way, it should be banned under NAFTA.
JustAnotherFurry
Stop. A ISP is selling bandwith to you that they buy from a carrier. A Carrier is NOT allowed that shit. If you have a good ISP, content 1/?
JustAnotherFurry
won't be throtled. Also: https://www.whoishostingthis.com/blog/2015/03/09/start-your-own-isp/
profanelogic
I really hope he's getting enough money to ignore how he's making him and his family, children included, famous historical pariahs.
EroticZombiePants
He is. Probably tens of millions at least.
Crowlands
Wife and 2 kids. I pity them. Even if it turns out he does (as is likely) raise the kids to be selfish cunts like him, it's not their fault.
OldTownPhantom
"Blame her father and her mother, that Veruca will reside with the rubbish and the other wasteful things she's tossed aside."-OompaLoompas
ElectricTickles
2% of the population petitions him an unfit human being. We take his kids away and he wouldn't blink.
itbeazombieyo
All the money in the world won't matter if he pisses off the wrong people. Insane people aren't beyond killing, not that I'd ever endorse it
theHoff12
I would not be surprised if someone unstable whose only source of social contact is gaming for example, goes after him because they have (1)
theHoff12
trouble getting online, or frankly can't afford it.
AllYourDownvotesAreBelongToUs
He is. Unfortunately.
profanelogic
I feel like his legacy will be akin to Benedict Arnold or John Wilkes Booth. Is there enough money to ever erase that?
aTokenOfMyExtreme
Would he care if he's dead?
Ssssssssssss
Depends, is it at least $50K for each year of life he's going to be alive, which is enough money to live in relative comfort, albeit at-
Ssssssssssss
an average standard of living at best?
profanelogic
You'd have to give me two islands for me to historically ruin my family and it's name for God knows how long.
HeHeHebieJeebies
maybe we get a bright ending to it all.. a new holiday maybe.. "The day we fed all the politicians to the wood chippers" there will be cake.
Getty13
...and you're now on a list
AKsinfonian
We don't wanna go old school and have guillotines like the french?
pyrrhlis
They also liked cake
Rue5kie
They had to like cake, they didn’t have enough bread
pixarpizza
So... uh.... I have a wood chipper.
VorpalDoom01
Anything for a new cake day!
Theman098
Perfect, we need wood chippers, lawn shears, and utility pumps. that way we can shred fake news, cut through red tape, and drain the swamp!
Freakingdoomguy
SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION
Gustie13
When was the last time someone actually had a negative consequence from being a corporate stooge and selling out the public?
HitlersArtCritic
"Pharma Bro" who was arrested for defrauding investors. Most hated person for being loud and making life saving drugs expensive.
HitlersArtCritic
Footnote. Said drugs were previously being sold at an affordable price.
Mattateus
Nixon?
aselfdefeatingattitude
Americans have a short memory and a big "us vs them" mentality. It's why a literal pedophile has a chance at being a senator right now.
Mott100
There is no proof but people saying things. Mob justice is one of the worst things.
cow042
also, I just looked up more about it, and he didn't date anyone below the age of 16 which was the age of consent in Alabama at the time...
aselfdefeatingattitude
And the one that said she was 14?
cow042
I believe she said they didn't start dating until 16, but I don't know. He isn't in my state, so I haven't done full research
cow042
Was that ever fully proven? Or is it still at the accusations stage?
ABigRedBall
Proving the point above episode 342.
tryin2figureitout
I mean how do you fully prove that? There's not video, but a retired cop came out and said he was told to keep Moore away from the malls.
Mott100
Guess what? If you cant prove it, then you cant argue its true.
HistoricalContext
There's also a number of different women, none of whom knew each other, all telling eerily similar stories.
StopLookingAtMyName
"They won't throttle!" "They've done if before and are doing it right now." "...Throttling isn't a big deal!"
bomboy23
Their service plan options are literally examples of throttling that can be done via software
iamthatonefriend
LeLotusBleu
Not that I support the repeal or ISP’s, but from my limited knowledge on the subject, all of the ISP’s are currently still regulated by(1/?)
LeLotusBleu
(2/?) the 2015 rulings which outright ban all forms of blocking, throttling, or data discrimination and requires the FCC to investigate
LeLotusBleu
(3/?) on a case-by-case review if any discrepancies are detected by customers or the public. Of course, this will all be thrown in the
LeLotusBleu
(4/4) bin If Pai and the current anti-net neutrality movement get their way.
LeLotusBleu
Oops I forgot the point: since there are no actual investigations being held, I don’t think any companies are blocking or throttling
tosomethisisarandomcollectionofletters
This is sadly very true. Here's a good quick history of just a few examples: https://www.freepress.net/blog/2017/04/25/net-neutrality-violat
TheGreatLunchbox
Think you ran out of characters on that link, OP
tosomethisisarandomcollectionofletters
Stupid limits, but its the one thats posted right in this thread. My b.
omh1
https://www.freepress.net/blog/2017/04/25/net-neutrality-violations-brief-history
DrumLegend001
Your link leads to a broken page
Bezaid
Pai is lying through his giant fucking teeth, and it's infuriating because I feel like nothing I do is going to matter.
kebertxelaturdferguson
Sure, it's highly immoral for ISP's to lie, but is it necessarily illegal? If it's not illegal, I could see them heavily using that.
NotMyUsualOnlineName
Could be considered false advertising. They do it all the time if you call to subscribe to Comcast. "Oh yeah, you'll get 50MB/s for $30/mo."
HitlersArtCritic
Its not 50 MegaBytes. Its 50 MegaBits. That small difference nobody notices is what makes people think they get more data.
NotMyUsualOnlineName
then they sign you up for a 5Mb/s for $30/mo. package.
Ealadon
They always promise "Up to XMB/s" never the actual number.
NotMyUsualOnlineName
In print, yeah, it's "Up to XMb/s", but if you call them they give you a specific number and no "fine print" like "XMb/s max".
Ealadon
Dealing with AT&T, Verizon/Frontier and TimeWarner/Spectrum I have never once had them give me any verbal guarantee other than "up to".