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Net neutrality
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 3:28 am
by Foo
So congress has rejected the bill to enforce net neutrality.
Someone on Digg came up with what must be the best idea ever:
"I recommend Yahoo, Google, MSN, AOL, Ebay, and others have a "DARK" day as a protest. Turn off the services for a day and maybe enough people will get the point & lobby their Representatives"
Think about this. If all those services turned off for one day, imagine just how much of an impact that would have upon businesses and individuals across the US and even across the globe.
It would absolutely drive home the reality that, hey, these guys serve whoever comes to their door, so the idea that they should have to pay for the priveledge of ISPs customers accessing them is farcical.
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 3:31 am
by Captain
Good point. I think I could live a day without Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Unless I was looking for shit.
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 3:36 am
by +JuggerNaut+
smaller companies and businesses would suffer.
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:09 am
by mjrpes
I could live without google for a day, if it ensured i could live with it for the rest of my life.
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:10 am
by Foo
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:smaller companies and businesses would suffer.
Everyone would. Imagine the additional deluge of WTF tech calls to the ISPs...
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:12 am
by Captain
lolz
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:17 am
by +JuggerNaut+
Foo wrote:+JuggerNaut+ wrote:smaller companies and businesses would suffer.
Everyone would. Imagine the additional deluge of WTF tech calls to the ISPs...
i don't see big corporations having a problem which is what i was getting at.
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:33 am
by Foo
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:Foo wrote:+JuggerNaut+ wrote:smaller companies and businesses would suffer.
Everyone would. Imagine the additional deluge of WTF tech calls to the ISPs...
i don't see big corporations having a problem which is what i was getting at.
Interesting. Perhaps not. But they're all made up of individuals, and there's no reason to assume that top executives don't make just as much use of the net as their underlings nowadays.
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:37 am
by +JuggerNaut+
this is true, but the digg user mentioned services that are not business essentials. i can see individuals getting hot and bothered because they can't check their webmail, but really, who cares?
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 5:01 am
by axbaby
i can see Ebay causing a pain in the butt for people $$$ but personally i can function quite well without all of it.
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 6:22 am
by Caffeine
If the U.S. Government does actually manage to screw up the Internet for its citizens, then perhaps the people will finally do something. Of course, it's more likely that most will just continue to bend over and accept it. I need to move to some place far, far away...
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 6:33 am
by Dave
I guess the way the bill was worded, the ability of broadband providers to provide QoS levels to customers would be in jepoardy. Meaning they couldn't charge you more for higher bandwidth usage or service levels, which makes sense to me.
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 10:20 am
by seremtan
you read the bill?
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 10:46 am
by o'dium
I am the man with no name... Zapp Branigan.
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:05 am
by Nightshade
Caffeine wrote:I need to move to some place far, far away...
Which is bending over and accepting it. What's your solution?
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 2:12 pm
by Dave
seremtan wrote:you read the bill?
No, did you? I read some commentary about it.
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 6:42 pm
by Caffeine
Nightshade wrote:
Which is bending over and accepting it.
No... that'd be staying and doing nothing.
What's your solution?
I don't have one. I'm a realist; there's nothing that one person can do. Even a large group of people probably couldn't effect change at this point.
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:12 pm
by andyman
Caffeine wrote:Nightshade wrote:
Which is bending over and accepting it.
No... that'd be staying and doing nothing.
What's your solution?
I don't have one. I'm a realist; there's nothing that one person can do. Even a large group of people probably couldn't effect change at this point.
sounds to me like you're just lazy, and not a 'realist' at all.
one man CAN make a difference, like Michael Knight
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:25 pm
by Dave
michael knight wasn't shit without kitt
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:26 pm
by MKJ
truth right there
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:33 pm
by Postal
Light at the end of the tunnel for this one:
Google decides to give a big STFU to all the telecom corporations, and is effectively shut of and blocked from every user on the internet.
So, they get back to working on laying down their fiber-optic lines throughout the country, before unveiling a new service = Googlenet. It works with all the internet, with none of the blocking or payperview bullshit.
Of course, it only works on the newly-invented GoogleOS.
More and more people move to GoogleOS and Googlenet, which work quickly and are ever-so-easy to use, much like Google itself.
Pretty soon, they become a power that excels far beyond even Microsoft - to the point that Googlists become their own political party.
People begin to vote for googlists and google-supporting congresspeople, as google slowly becomes the domineering political party.
Not too far in the future, Google eliminates and bans all other political parties as being too obsolete in this Google day and age, after they assume complete control of the government, uniting us all under one common flag: GoogleNation.
I, for one, welcome our new search-term overlords.
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:36 pm
by MKJ
Postal wrote:Light at the end of the tunnel for this one:
Google decides to give a big STFU to all the telecom corporations, and is effectively shut of and blocked from every user on the internet.
So, they get back to working on laying down their fiber-optic lines throughout the country, before unveiling a new service = Googlenet (Beta). It works with all the internet, with none of the blocking or payperview bullshit.
Of course, it only works on the newly-invented GoogleOS Beta.
More and more people move to GoogleOS Beta and Googlenet (Beta), which work quickly and are ever-so-easy to use, much like Google itself.
Pretty soon, they become a power that excels far beyond even Microsoft - to the point that Googlists become their own political party.
People begin to vote for beta googlists and google-supporting congresspeople (still in beta), as google slowly becomes the domineering political party.
Not too far in the future, Google eliminates and bans all other political parties as being too obsolete in this Google day and age, after they assume complete control of the government, uniting us all under one common flag: GoogleNation (Beta, only by invite).
I, for one, welcome our new search-term overlords.
fixed it for you
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:38 pm
by Scourge
Postal wrote:Light at the end of the tunnel for this one:
Google decides to give a big STFU to all the telecom corporations, and is effectively shut of and blocked from every user on the internet.
So, they get back to working on laying down their fiber-optic lines throughout the country, before unveiling a new service = Googlenet. It works with all the internet, with none of the blocking or payperview bullshit.
Of course, it only works on the newly-invented GoogleOS.
More and more people move to GoogleOS and Googlenet, which work quickly and are ever-so-easy to use, much like Google itself.
Pretty soon, they become a power that excels far beyond even Microsoft - to the point that Googlists become their own political party.
People begin to vote for googlists and google-supporting congresspeople, as google slowly becomes the domineering political party.
Not too far in the future, Google eliminates and bans all other political parties as being too obsolete in this Google day and age, after they assume complete control of the government, uniting us all under one common flag: GoogleNation.
I, for one, welcome our new search-term overlords.
Stop smoking the local shrubbery.
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:43 pm
by +JuggerNaut+
Postal wrote:Light at the end of the tunnel for this one:
Google decides to give a big STFU to all the telecom corporations, and is effectively shut of and blocked from every user on the internet.
So, they get back to working on laying down their fiber-optic lines throughout the country, before unveiling a new service = Googlenet. It works with all the internet, with none of the blocking or payperview bullshit.
Of course, it only works on the newly-invented GoogleOS.
More and more people move to GoogleOS and Googlenet, which work quickly and are ever-so-easy to use, much like Google itself.
Pretty soon, they become a power that excels far beyond even Microsoft - to the point that Googlists become their own political party.
People begin to vote for googlists and google-supporting congresspeople, as google slowly becomes the domineering political party.
Not too far in the future, Google eliminates and bans all other political parties as being too obsolete in this Google day and age, after they assume complete control of the government, uniting us all under one common flag: GoogleNation.
I, for one, welcome our new search-term overlords.
nice cut/paste
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:45 pm
by Postal
MKJ wrote:
fixed it for you
lmao
scourge34 wrote:
Stop smoking the local shrubbery.
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
nice cut/paste
lies