FCC kills Net Neutrality

[Ihealyou]

I'm unhappy with this too, but I want to play devil's advocate for a minute.

Whats wrong with paying for the amount of bandwidth you use? Right now, people who use less bandwidth are subsidizing the people who use more. I realize it would suck for me and most people here who use the internet a lot, but I'm having trouble seeing how it isn't fair to charge for what you use.

[Harrison]

Originally Posted by Ihealyou [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm unhappy with this too, but I want to play devil's advocate for a minute.

Whats wrong with paying for the amount of bandwidth you use? Right now, people who use less bandwidth are subsidizing the people who use more. I realize it would suck for me and most people here who use the internet a lot, but I'm having trouble seeing how it isn't fair to charge for what you use.

That is already in place as a BUSINESS plan.

Comcast for instance has the right to charge you more for higher data usage per month, and only 10% of the users are even coming close to that "amount".

That comes nowhere near as dangerous as, "We're going to control data flow when and where we wish to, because we can. You're free to pay us extra to remove these artificially created blocks on bandwidth."

[Auchae]

Originally Posted by Ihealyou [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm unhappy with this too, but I want to play devil's advocate for a minute.

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[KilyenaMage]

Originally Posted by Ihealyou [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm unhappy with this too, but I want to play devil's advocate for a minute.

Whats wrong with paying for the amount of bandwidth you use? Right now, people who use less bandwidth are subsidizing the people who use more. I realize it would suck for me and most people here who use the internet a lot, but I'm having trouble seeing how it isn't fair to charge for what you use.

Don't kid yourself. These per-site charges are gonna be ADDED to what you're already paying.

If you think you're gonna be able to pay per-usage fees, you're sadly mistaken.