5) "The Obama net neutrality rules were a nice but flawed idea – it made no sense to classify ISPs under Title II as telecoms utilities."
Your explanation as to "why" is incorrect. Telecoms in fact once ran the Internet (think your old, slow, dial-up ISP of yore). Classifying all ISPs as Title II is just a carryover from that and still makes sense as the type of product (information) is the same, the transmission lines are just a bit different (not entirely: dial-up still exists. AOL's still in business. Millions of USians still use dial-up. I'm oversimplifying what I know and will say on this just to keep you from crushing boredom).
Also, before you read further, you need to understand what's at stake and what's been lost here. Net neutrality is a topic I've been passionate about for the better part of 10 years so it's good to know where to start from in a discussion on it - at least from my point of view: https://qz.com/1158328/what-will-happen-now-that-net-neutrality-is-gone-we-asked-the-experts/
"given that the 2015 net neutrality rules were at best a stopgap" - from what, exactly? They were perfect. I'm not understanding you.
8) "To be clear, I think the pro-neutrality groups pushing the line that Evil Corporate ISPs are going to charge you per website/app, censor anti-Trump sites and make Netflix unusable in favor of their own crappy video streaming service are going way overboard with the drama."
Hahahahaha, you're killing me. Comcast already withdrew their promise not to prioritize. Several other ISPs have done the same, or refuse to comment on whether they will begin to prioritize or not.
Also (forgot to mention this at my original go but meant to) if this is all such high drama then what do you make of this mid-summer survey I took? Honestly, I need someone to comment on it, so how about you? https://marahmarie.dreamwidth.org/363580.html
And I'm taking the time to say all this because I support your right to have whatever opinion you want, I'd just appreciate it if it's based more concretely in fact and what is currently known about what ISPs can and therefore will or at least "very well might" do. There is no stopping them now. These aren't the exaggerations you were looking for.
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Your explanation as to "why" is incorrect. Telecoms in fact once ran the Internet (think your old, slow, dial-up ISP of yore). Classifying all ISPs as Title II is just a carryover from that and still makes sense as the type of product (information) is the same, the transmission lines are just a bit different (not entirely: dial-up still exists. AOL's still in business. Millions of USians still use dial-up. I'm oversimplifying what I know and will say on this just to keep you from crushing boredom).
Also, before you read further, you need to understand what's at stake and what's been lost here. Net neutrality is a topic I've been passionate about for the better part of 10 years so it's good to know where to start from in a discussion on it - at least from my point of view: https://qz.com/1158328/what-will-happen-now-that-net-neutrality-is-gone-we-asked-the-experts/
"given that the 2015 net neutrality rules were at best a stopgap" - from what, exactly? They were perfect. I'm not understanding you.
8) "To be clear, I think the pro-neutrality groups pushing the line that Evil Corporate ISPs are going to charge you per website/app, censor anti-Trump sites and make Netflix unusable in favor of their own crappy video streaming service are going way overboard with the drama."
Hahahahaha, you're killing me. Comcast already withdrew their promise not to prioritize. Several other ISPs have done the same, or refuse to comment on whether they will begin to prioritize or not.
I'm having to dig into links I email myself to get you up to speed (and there's more on this topic in the link above) because I haven't posted them to my blog yet so here you go: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/comcast-quietly-drops-promise-not-to-charge-tolls-for-internet-fast-lanes/ and https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/15/16768088/internet-providers-plans-without-net-neutrality-comcast-att-verizon
Also (forgot to mention this at my original go but meant to) if this is all such high drama then what do you make of this mid-summer survey I took? Honestly, I need someone to comment on it, so how about you? https://marahmarie.dreamwidth.org/363580.html
And I'm taking the time to say all this because I support your right to have whatever opinion you want, I'd just appreciate it if it's based more concretely in fact and what is currently known about what ISPs can and therefore will or at least "very well might" do. There is no stopping them now. These aren't the exaggerations you were looking for.