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View Poll Results: Do You Believe There Should Be a "Pay to Play" System on the Internet

Re: Do You Believe There Should Be a "Pay to Play" System on the Internet

Originally Posted by jamesrage

DO your like netflix/hulu/youtube, going to political forums, visiting certain news websites, visiting amazon or some other websites? Seeing how there is this quasi-monolopy with the ISPs what if some left wing loonies or even some right wing loonies decided they didn't like the opinions of the people who own the websites you didn't like and pressured the ISPs to slow down or shut down traffic to those sites? Are you going to get phone internet or just do without? If pay to play is allowed then you can kiss those things goodbye.

Re: Do You Believe There Should Be a "Pay to Play" System on the Internet

Originally Posted by BmanMcfly

Why? You don't need a new government agency to stop another government agency from over reaching... Just use already existing agencies to force them to stay within their mandates.

Huh? ISPs aren't federal agencies, so I'm not really sure what you mean. The courts have said the FCC can't regulate the internet, so which existing federal agency do you believe should do it?

Originally Posted by BmanMcfly

Or just shut down the FCC and let the market, ie sponsors, determine what goes on?

The problem with that is that in far too many areas, ISPs have local monopolies, and there is no other provider to switch to if you don't like how that provider treats you. Hence the need for regulation to prevent them from abusing their power.

Re: Do You Believe There Should Be a "Pay to Play" System on the Internet

Originally Posted by tacomancer

In other words, do you want the internet or AOL?

Maybe netflix or Hulu will start offering low quality movie downloads that will take a week or two to download for AOL and other telephone internet users, they can call it their "freedom" package .

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear"

Re: Do You Believe There Should Be a "Pay to Play" System on the Internet

Originally Posted by molten_dragon

Huh? ISPs aren't federal agencies, so I'm not really sure what you mean. The courts have said the FCC can't regulate the internet, so which existing federal agency do you believe should do it?

The problem with that is that in far too many areas, ISPs have local monopolies, and there is no other provider to switch to if you don't like how that provider treats you. Hence the need for regulation to prevent them from abusing their power.

No, but the FCC is attempting to impose itself over the internet, and in turn eliminate net neutrality because they are regulators of content. You could say on behalf of ISPs.

Yes, ISPs do represent natural monopolies, and that's another reason that they should only be in control of the connections, not the content.

Does the net have unlimited capacity?
Are they even slightly slowing everyone else down?
Will they by 2018?

This is especially cogent I think, in the case of a Pay-per-view company like Netflix, whose gobbling all this currently Free capacity and making a living/Profit off it.
Shouldn't they (and their customers) be paying for what enables their Piggy biz?

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Does the net have unlimited capacity?
Are they even slightly slowing everyone else down?
Will they by 2018?

This is especially cogent I think, in the case of a Pay-per-view company like Netflix, whose gobbling all this currently Free capacity and making a living/Profit off it.
Shouldn't they (and their customers) be paying for what enables their piggy biz?

Ya, you pay for access to the pipes, and in some cases a premium for more data flow, part of the cost of hosting video is in uploading that video, and so that cost is factored into the price of membership. The cable company ISPs charge a HUGE PREMIUM relative to the money put into maintenance and expansion of the grid, so that cost is covered...

All this is is a money grab.... While killing free speech as we know it.

Re: Do You Believe There Should Be a "Pay to Play" System on the Internet

Originally Posted by TheDemSocialist

Do you believe the FCC should allow a "pay to play" system on the internet? A new FCC Chair threatens to let cable and phone companies create an Internet fast lane for companies that can afford it and a slow lane for everyone else who cannot afford it.

They already do that for non business, I pay $53 a month for slow, if I want the fastest, it costs $30 more.

I say they should provide everyone, even businesses with fast, and the FCC should make these corporations comply, instead of allowing them to play their little gosh danged pricing games. I'm fed up with slow crappy service.

There should be at least a governing body to regulate how these internet corporations charge outrageous fees for crap.