^FCC 15-24 still doesn’t support your assertion that “The largest myth is that under net neutrality a cable provider couldn’t throttle the speed of major streaming services, ex. Netflix, at speeds slower than their own programming.”
According to the principles of an “open internet”: (Simplified below)
A. Strong Rules That Protect Consumers from Past and Future Tactics that Threaten
the Open Internet
I suspect the same people who worried about Xerox, IBM, and Kodak dominating the world are finding new worries. Maybe Phil Donahue can make a comeback railing against net neutrality?
The sections you cited addressed interconnection and backbone strategies, not ISP throttling. I didn’t find it relevant to your assertion that net neutrality didn’t address ISP throttling.
Currently, to the best of my knowledge, no major companies have announced any new “throttling policies” (yet). They know if they enact such policies, customers will flee en masse and PR will have a field day.
So to answer the OP’s question, no, I am not very concerned (yet). As @mom2twogirls said, there are more pressing things to worry about at this point in time.
If the webpage I’m trying to load is doing so slowly, I just look out my window to rest my eyes. No point in staring blankly at a spinning wheel when I can admire nature.
My guess is that in the short run, things stay the same, but eventually net neutrality will effect everyone one way or the other.
People concerned with this don’t understand markets.
@Greymeer Can you please clarify what you mean?
I am concerned. Power is power. Power leads to corruption. We all (should) know by now that just because there’s a line item in a rule/law, that doesn’t mean it is followed.
We know what will happen. It’s already happening. “Inappropriate” content will be censored and eventually only content with “appropriate” perspectives will be accessible.
I don’t know enough to say for sure exactly what all the effects of this are going to be, but the fact that the internet service providers appear to be figuratively rubbing their hands together in glee over the end of net neutrality indicates that whatever the result it’s going to cost me more money.
Can you elaborate, TM? Are you saying that the ISP’s are throttling the speed of “inappropriate” content, in other words, small business who does not pay up?
Big money controls the access. That’s what has been happening for awhile on Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and other major venues.
^Can you be a little more specific? And what do you mean by “access”.
I can see commercially big business having more money for advertising so their products would be more prominently featured. However, those media websites do allow for a variety of products/opinions (in theory). Anyone can search for things on Facebook/Google. Are you saying the “smaller guys” would be hidden from a Facebook or Google search?
@sciencenerd - do a quick search for the 60 Minutes segment, How did Google get so big? March 2018. Worth the 15 minutes. They currently rule the web.
Actually I just noticed as I was searching for some info, google want me to register, first five news per month are free from local newspapers, then they want me to register. Well I guess I have to pay for the information if I want to obtain the information and it is important to me.
As always, the government is a day late and a dollar short. Cable company ISPs were doing that to discourage people from watching Netflix back when cable TV was still the norm. Remember that? Fast forward to 2018. Half the population dropped cable, and gigabit internet is mainstream in most major cities. We can stream 4k without blinking twice. Computer technology is impossible to regulate, in part because it changes too fast for regulations to have any real effect.