/sci/ - Science & Math

So at first hearing about this scared me. I didn't fully understand NN. But the immediate and incredible outpour of "outrage" about its repeal, everywhere (a little too everywhere, bet your ass there is a large amount of money/establishment behind trying to keep it in place), I got a little suspicious and looked into it.

First off, from what I can gather, this law has only been on the books for 2 and a half years. So all of these doomsday scenarios are literally hypotheticals that never actually came to fruition in the 20 or so years of ubiquitous internet prior. It was a preemptive regulation, so probably more along the lines of government trying to get its claws into yet another industry over an actual problem.

The internet is designed to be free and decentralized. This was actually a form of control over that and when people try to control things it usually makes it worse, especially from our government.

If an ISP were to engage in practices such as bandwidth throttling and blocking the public backlash would be enormous and they would lose a lot of money. As it stands ISPs charge an exorbitant amount of money for internet (above true value) because they are already large and fat and virtual monopolies propped up by government "regulations".

Regulating the net and disallowing true capitalism to work its magic on a fundamentally decentralized entity is asking to delay development and create larger problems down the line.

Corporations don't have a fraction of the power of government. It's when governments and corporations start falling in line that you should start to worry, that's how your Standard Oils and Bells came to be.