Jeff Stahler for November 11, 2014

We already saw the future when Comcast extorted money from Netflix because so many of Comcast’s internet subscribers used so much bandwidth watching Netflix.

3rd ’toon today mentioning Net Neutrality (and my 3rd comment on the subject).Be prepared to pay even more to avoid the dreaded buffering symbol.

And here I thought the problem was the amount of memory in my old computer.

Hardly. We’re talking about the same regulations the Internet exists under today, and it’s hardly destroyed. The cable companies just want to be able to extort more money from content providers.

I get that’s how you want the Internet to work, but that’s not the Net Neutrality problem.

The sites that will be slowed down are the ones who won’t, or can’t pony up the extra charges, wether they use 20 Meg’s or 20 gigs. It’s about the speed of delivery. Your connection will still register as ‘speedy fast’ when you test it, but the content will take its own sweet time to reach you. You’ll have a fast connection, but slow access to certain sites. And when that happens, will you have the patience to wait? Or will you find another site that has a speedier delivery time. Most people will choose the latter, and new ideas, new businesses will be starved out.Net neutrality only says that all data access should be equal. Net fix is just the best example of how to explain it, but please don’t think that it only has to do with the ‘size of the files’.Blessings,Mr.MOR

And interestingly, here in the US, cheap hotels offer free wi-fi, but fancy hotels charge by the day.

Obama is pushing for Net Neutrality. This should be enthusiastically embraced by people who genuinely want to keep the Internet a source of innovation and provide freedom of access. It should be enthusiastically embraced by SMALL businesses, which are the engine of the economy.But no doubt the GOP is already gearing up to attack, because that’s not what they represent, no matter what they say.

I would expect that allowing people to pay more for more bandwidth would create an incentive to create more bandwidth in response to demand, to the extent of the demand.

Corporate “personhood” monopoly taking over band width, just like votes. We need another T.R., not another fictional J.R., or more frighteningly, another R.R. to screw us over.

Starnge how competitive ISPs become when Google starts talking to a city.http://www.zdnet.com/google-backs-net-neutrality-on-its-own-google-fibre-network-7000029786/

Yeah, the government shouldn’t have any say in the internet they created, because, after all, what do they know? It should be left to canny entrepreneurs who are working to get monopolies so they can charge whatever they want. That’s the American way!

Thank you! Jeff Stahler. This is what I’m trying to say about video calling. This would prevent throttling on our video calling via Video Relay Service and/or Point to Point. Beautiful illustration that I can share with FCC and CRTC about Net Neutrality issues that will impact on our video calling.