I'm getting tired of the #NetNeutrality meme saying "if it passes you'll pay $14.99 for Twitter and $.10 per Google search". It is absolutely not what is going to happen and we should try to educate people on the real reasons why #NetNeutrality needs defending. Thread 1/n
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Ok, so here's another one. How does one proceed to know which website you are accessing if one wants to throttle or limit your access ? Easy. It opens and reads everything that you send or that is sent to you. Creepy much ? 11/n
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Let's take a snail mail metaphor. Imagine the US Postal Service opening up and reading every single letter people send and decide that this one or that one should be sent slower or not at all because it doesn't use the brand of paper included in the base package ? 12/n
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This type of traffic surveillance, is called DPI for Deep Packet Inspection is also what allows a nation-state, say, the US of A, to have the infrastructure in place at the telcos to read, filter, censor, or alter everything your write and everything you read. 13/npic.twitter.com/Ys5LoKROiZ
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To conclude, YES, people need to mobilize against the attacks on
#NetNeutrality , but propagating misconceptions about what it is doesn't help. Always make the bet that people are smart and can understand complex problems if you take the time to explain them. It's on you. 14/14pic.twitter.com/vGZUCEinl0Show this thread -
Wow. This blew up. RIP my inbox as they say. Thanks to the 99% of you who thank me or politely rebute some of the points I make. To keep my sanity I’m muting rude people and - because it’s fun - I WILL spoil Starwars to any MAGA/Trumpist troll. Have a good day everybody !
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Ok, so given the awesome feedback from you guys I feel compelled to do a follow-up mini-thread to answer the few points that are coming over an over again. 15/14
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Point 1 :
#NetNeutrality didn't exist before 2015 and all was fine so what's all the fuss about ? Answer : It is a core principle of the network and has been there since its infancy. The 2015 law was an answer to the apparent intent of some players to start ignoring it. 16/14Show this thread -
Point 2 : People have a choice of ISP and competition will prevent them from being assholes. Answer : you're ignoring that competition only exists in a vaccum, that many local government offer exclusivity to a single ISP and that collusion is very real in this industry. 17/14
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Point 3 : We're just trying to dumb it down because people are idiots. Answer : never think that or you are the idiot. You know more about a topic than somebody ? Teach them. Educate them. Discuss. Share. They probably know something you don't and think you are the idiot. 18/14
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This is were I disagree with you, there will just be widespread adoption of stealth browsing , your ISP blocks traffic to site X, so you send an encrypted request to site y which sends a request to site x and forwards it back to you as an encrypted package, most encrypted traffic
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Fast forward to 2021, this is made illegal. Now what ? (this is not an hypothetical, it exists in many countries and have advocates in the US).
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and if they really tried to suppress access to the internet, as i point out to my republican friends I don't know many route DNS servers that run through corn fields. do you.
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meant to say root dNS servers, its late at night here.
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So take fiction out of this and look at what unchecked they could realistically do. 1) service prioritization - I mentioned telecommuters they could actually charge more for that by creating a high speed lane for telecommuters 2) as you pointed out heavy bandwidth traffic like
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Like wikipedia
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jeeze dude go outside or something do whatever you need to just get the fuck off the net for a long while.
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Yeah, it's important. People like Rooster Teeth are mainstream enough to be able to pay for it, but smaller websites will get screwed. No one new will be able to start up, and then we're limited in what we can see.
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Lie and wrong.
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Then explain to me what Net Neutrality is
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