Sophia said:
Most of you are probably aware of the copyright reform introducing upload filters in the EU, if you're not and part of the EU, you might wanna check out some petitions and websites cuz if this reform goes live in 4 days the Hub's gonna be effectively killed off in the EU. Most of the content is copyrighted characters here on the hub and getting a license from companies like Disney for this kinda website seems far-fetched (and way too expensive).

So either petition against it, gear up for demonstrations or get a VPN ready because there's no way to vote except for telling your parliament member!

www.change.org/p/european...chinery-save-the-internet
saveyourinternet.eu/

Here's hoping our EU members are going to just vote against it and stop it before it starts.

Imasuky said:
No government actually knows how you function properly with the internet

Anon_3.141 said:
Meanwhile, in America, the Net Neutrality protections repeal went into effect, and Ajit Pai is likely having lavish parties with his corporate overlords at Verison. Our only hope now is that the House, like the Senate, decides to, as a majority, pass the Net Neutrality-based use of the Congressional Review Act.

TheKinkyFinn said:
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Net neutrality protections repeal... So, the internet went back to how it was before NN, into the deep dark age of pre-2015? <<www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh8sVHb5oOA|Oh, the humanity>>.

Anon_3.141 said:
Meanwhile, in America, the Net Neutrality protections repeal went into effect, and Ajit Pai is likely having lavish parties with his corporate overlords at Verison. Our only hope now is that the House, like the Senate, decides to, as a majority, pass the Net Neutrality-based use of the Congressional Review Act.

Anon_3.141 said:
Pre-2015 means no rules against paid prioritization, which means Comcast throttling Netflix in order to make Comcast's video streaming service seem better by comparison, due to Comcast not throttling Comcast's stuff. (The scenario I just described is something that actually happened.)

bellchan said:
Yeah, Netflix actually managed to prove this with a nofty trick by marketing a “net speed test” website on their server to show people what their speed was for Netflix. At the time Att and Comcast were speeding access to speed test websites to trick people but they couldn’t trick Netflix’s without allowing the entire site to run that speed.

Then you have the Apple Wallet debacle where a carrier refused to run s payment service on their cell network.

The billions of dollars for wire infrastructure that com giants were given by the government which was pocketed.

This shit NEEDS regulation. The rules were to curtail bad behavior. One myst obly look at the difference between Comcast’s “Customer Promise” page pre-repeal and post-repeal to see where this will go bad.

The Sweden website subscription service is a Worst Case scenario. We already handled the realistic ones and decided enough was enough.

Also America needs to catch the fuck up to Asia and Europe and get Good internet. Y’all are stuck in the mid-2000s and it’s frankly embarrassing.