Well, so it's kind of a foregone conclusion that we're going to lose Net Neutrality. Maybe it'll get held up in court, or maybe it'll end up being punted down into a state's rights issue (which would suck for most of America but probably not me on the West Coast), so I guess the question now is - if the worst comes to pass and the ISPs really rape and pillage this, what can we do?
IPSs could potentially throttle known VPNs. So..? Thoughts?
@malice Agreed and that where we were talking about it all earlier last week.. What now and what can we really do
@wildnfree @malice if it comes down to it, start pressuring locally. I wish it wouldn't come to that, but if it's the only option we have what else can you do?
@suullus @wildnfree Wouldn't help me, I live in Seattle. We're way to the left and our politicians are wildly against all this bs already. In swing and red states, absolutely.
@wildnfree @suullus Sort of. In SF I used Sonic.net, they're an indie provider and they're great. But where I am now I don't have any options other than Comcast. =/
@wildnfree @malice the thing is, video content isn't really that rough to handle. It's mostly compressed, and encoders are getting better at keeping data usage very low
@wildnfree @malice I think Amazon video is the worst in terms of usage while streaming. My kids watched something on there and I ended up having to upgrade to raise our data cap because we were paying like $200 over our normal monthly charge due to going over. Now I don't go over, and only pay $100 a month. The extra speed is nice too.
@malice @suullus But we were also back to square one considering that those small providers would have to deal with the biggies, which still can control the flow