Analysis: Is Net Neutrality Good for Gaming?Wawro
Net Neutrality means that the government will – one day – control the internet. “Wait a second!” I can you hear you saying. “That sounds bad.” But almost everyone you know says that Net Neutrality is good. Doesn’t “neutral” mean that...
Many of the arguments around net neutrality don't come down to whether net neutrality is good in and of itself, but whether government regulation is necessary to preserve it or whether that regulation is harmful to future innovation. Major Internet companies like Google and Microsoft, along with ...
Some countries do not have net neutrality laws – their governments deploy extremely stringent censorship laws and exert such high control over their country's networks that it's often pointless to discuss their stance on net neutrality. However, there are some comparatively good-faith arguments agai...
It’s worth noting that net neutrality isn’t a law everywhere and, indeed, not enforced the same way. For example, the term and definition have been under fire in the US since the 90s. In 2019, the House of Representatives passed the Save the Internet act to guarantee broadband internet...
Net Neutrality – What’s Actually Happening? There have been cases where the ISPs were deliberately slowing up data from popular websites to extract money from those sites. Netflix, for example, is a video streaming site. And it pays a good amount of money to different ISPs so that users...
Without net neutrality, ISPs have all the power and can control what you see. Under the current lack of regulation, ISPs could slow down, block websites, or charge apps and websites extra fees to reach an audience. Large companies can pass along the extra charges to consumers, while small...
The entirenet neutralitydebate and the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) 2019 decision in the United States appears to target Google's competitors specifically, such as Verizon and Sprint, all under the auspices of internet fairness. But Google could be next. Having installed more than 100...
And just to be clear, this is not about Max Resnick, though he might have played a part in that (and as stated yesterday, think this was net positive, but it's still good he's gone). But there are more people like Jon Charb, Kain Warwick, Eric Connor, Konstantin Lomashuk etc. ...
The ultimate win for net neutrality supporters would be an amendment to the Telecommunications Act, in which the internet is unambiguously classified under Title II. That, however, is unlikely to be attempted when the Democratic party is the minority. The ultimate win for net neutrality suppor...