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Democrats Introduce Open Internet Preservation Act To Restore Net Neutrality

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7 points by thiele 12 years ago · 1 comment

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ergoproxy 12 years ago

This bill is DOA, thanks to the Republican controlled House of Representatives. I wonder how much Verizon, Comcast and AT&T spent to get these clowns elected?

Americans should expect to pay a lot more for internet services like Netflix as Verizon, Comcast and AT&T extort as much money as they can from them.

America already has slow, shitty internet. The loss of net neutrality will only compound these problems. I foresee US internet ghettoized in the near future: There will be a Verizon ghetto, a Comcast ghetto, and an AT&T ghetto. Each one with its own set of proprietary services, isolated from the others, a throwback to days of CompuServ and Prodigy in the 80s.

If I were starting another internet company, it would probably be in a place with faster, cheaper internet. Maybe South Korea.

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