inu-kun said:
Looking at the subject, isn't this already not happening by some powerful companies? Google algorithms will ignore the existence of certain sites whether maliciously or not. Twitter, Facebook and Youtube engage in censoring content. The term is mainly for Internet service providers but shouldn't it be also true for those companies?
No, it isn't the same at all. Google not having something show up in search results is not the same thing as an ISP slowing down or blocking a site they do not like. I can use another search engine. In many ares you ONLY have ONE internet service provider in the US and nto havea choice about it at all. It will allow for them to artificially slow down access to certain sites just to charge more to those who " pay the toll" allowing for internet access to go to the highest bidder.
What companies like AT&T have done in the past is try to artificially slow down/ bottleneck peoples current internet speed to try and force them to upgrade to a more expensive service. Without Net Neutrality, they will be able to block access to competitors content, or sites that speak out against them and slow down access to anyone who doesn't pay their extra fees they create to access normal speeds.
The worst part about this now is that simply because Trump supports it, we have people who were against it before now trying to say " it doesn't matter anyways" BS because they think this MUST be a partisan issue when it really is just an issue of certain companies looking to screw people over.
It is messed up and due to Trump appointing an FCC Head that is trying to do everything in his power to make this happen, including allow anti net neutrality bots spam comments while at the same time they preventing actual people from posting Pro net neutrality comments by actually locking them out of the system at one time and refusing to provide any documents regarding that event that they claimed was responsible to the FOI requests shows they have no interest in really hearing from those who do not approve.
