Rocketboom explain net neutrality

[AwakeDude911]

ooooooooNOoooooo ID be cock BLOCKED ..funny i got it

BAD very BAD.

stop buying sh*t and take away the tax base..no taxes no funding for any thing..

[74mryoyo]

her wide eyes make her look like a family guy/american dad character...

[74mryoyo]

her wide eyes make her look l

ike a family guy/ american dad character...

[enigmatically]

You mean like YouTube does right now?

If you have like 200 views then during busy times it can take forever to load videos in 360 resolution...but then a popular video with 15 million plus views has no delay or hiccups streaming 1080p....YouTube definitely has preferential bandwidth treatment to videos with ads or which have millions of views while slowing down personal vlogs for people without a partnership account with thousands of subscribers.

[koocharlie]

yeah i remember last time a tsunami hit my house the only thing left standing was my computer so i jumped on craigslist and sold my wet furnature and broken house debris.

[gibblets17]

i mean how pathetic have we as a nation become? every time someone cooks up some non existent future maybe it will happen scenario we freak out and try to pass a bunch of regulations and hand more of our freedoms over to government. the everyday American seems to have no free thought anymore. what happened to boycotting companies that are dirty? why do we need to increase the cost of government at the same time as cutting our freedoms down.

[gibblets17]

this is like saying oxygen canister companies "COULD" be assholes and make more money by not putting oxygen in their canisters. so to combat this we need to make a really expensive board like the fcc to come and regulate everything they do. any problems the internet "might" end up having can be solved by the consumer quite easily. these companies don't and do not want to limit other sites because the venue they would lose by pissing off their costumers would be ten time more then they make.

[hrhjudy]

, what is to be will be and the little man aint gonna stop it.... :)

[TheWhiteRabbit1990]

Right, and telephone companies are going to cut deals with certain companies to limit phone access. Verizon's going to cut a deal with best buy and I won't be able to call Frys.

Dumb bitch.

[Angellicationify]

Obama’s “FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn Free Internet a Civil Right for Every Nappy-Headed Child” watch?v=JWETGCggzcE She also voted for Net Neutrality,which could ultimately censor the internet impeding our first amendment rights of Freedom of Speech. watch?v=lGplqSh8fYU

.

Her dad is James Clyburn, former house majority WHIP. She’s probably aware our unfunded liabilities are $115 Trillion per debt clock.

[SunTzuJJ]

Get the FCC out of my internet.

[satancouldkillyounow]

Google is for net neutrality which should make you seriously think about why you are supporting it. Google is not a nice company.

This video is standard propaganda.

[darkblood626]

this comment is not available in your contry on copyright grounds

[eethry]

This was the most relatable video on net neutrality I've seen. awesome vid.

[vegaskidd]

I'm confused on this net neutrality, I am actually a web-developer, Corporations can have fast severs that would that would serve their websites up faster, so I am confused on the "tech" aspects on what will actually happen, because right now we don't have equal speed, if you web server is better than mine than it can serve faster and more people than mine. Where can I find the details, I hope you don't mind that I just don't "take your word for it"

[eethry]

@vegaskidd true your building is nicer to stay in like a starbucks, but I prefer to go to the local coffee house even though it looks a bit run down it has what I need I can't get from the other place. This is in relation to your servers.

The street to get to both of this locations are the same quality, cause of net neutrality. The road company says I don't care where your going, I'll just maintain the roads like I should. This represents Comcast, Verizon, and Cox.

[vegaskidd]

@eethry I would like to know the tech details. (it seems like no one is aware, becuz most ppl dont work in the tech business,which is not their fault), but the roads are already skewed.The internet as you use it works like this: A server connects its fiber optic cables to an ISP then you are connected to that ISP, the connection speed from the server to the ISP is completely dependent upon the quality of the server you have,which affects speed of ppl going to your website. So where is it diff?

[eethry]

@vegaskidd the fiber ops are the roads, the thing the isp provides, while another entity creates the sites. The quality of the site should dictate how much people go to it, therefore making more money from ads and such to get a better server if they choose or go to another hosting website. But if Comcast controls commercially how each site will operate and have products of their own, it won't be the quality of the website that dictates if it grows or not, but the ISP. Amazon, Huffpost.

[lostbuffalo]

The vehicles for the privatization of the public internet are:

P.O.W.D.E.R. The "Protocol for Web Description Resurces"

and P.I.C.S. "Platform for Internet Content Selection"

Both were developed under the impetus of stopping child pornographIt is the protocol for Labeling.Content publishers are not the only entities which can label their own content. anyone can and the labeling will be maintained on 3rd party databases content publishers have no say in how their content gets labeled.

[Besserwisser77]

In the future the whole internet is gonna be replaced with modems....

[chowner]

good description of the idea of this . However there is little to now evidence of the telco's wanting to do this. Its against there best interest. In reality the federal government wants to create these laws so they can have censorship control over the internet.

Educate yourself.

[dben2005]

Here's my question. Who has seriously had a problem with accessing a site like google or craigslist?

[snoglydox]

@dben2005

As far as I know, it will start in a major way, in 2012; Century Link prioritized their search engine at this time, if you have there DSL internet access (they allow you to use other ones, but they are slower; imagine that.)

[LindemanProductions]

I think someone needs to take some IT courses to actually understand how the internet works and how it's regulated.

[ChibiSabbath]

I think she wants to be Molly.

[chipmoonk902]

rocketboom POSER!

[sugarkang]

liberals and their good intentions.

[stevenredwards]

I'm a new fan of Rocketboom. I love it. I don't think that this is a legitimate Rocketboom vid.

[daviddeath11]

fit as!

[Cheesewookie]

HOOOOT girl

[TheAtheistRising]

This is absurd melodrama. Net neutrality prevents ISP's from giving priority to disaster areas.

[qwasdninja]

Why do they need priority? Bandwidth doesnt deliver medicine, doctors, soldiers or firemen. If the ISPs could stop selling more bandwidth than they can deliver it would never be a problem.

[angryahole]

I dont know about you assholes, but I dont want the government anywhere near my internet.

[snoglydox]

@angryahole

They are already in it; if it weren't for them, you would not have all the options you have now. Think about it; you have one phone line going to your house, yet you have more than one option of phone company to your house.

[snoglydox]

@angryahole

The Government created laws that allow CLEC (competitive local exchange carriers) to exist; they have to rent the line to your house from the original owners ILEC (incumbent local exchange carrier,) but what is stopping the ILEC from over charging the CLEC, so they cant compete. THE GOVERNMENT!

[TheNavigateur]

@angryahole You say "I don't want the government anywhere near my internet". NOBODY has proposed the government near the internet. This is typical American corporate-brainwashed conservatard bullshit. Net neutrality = net neutrality. i.e. NO regulation of content by either government OR companies. Get it? Idiot.

[digivince]

@TheNavigateur I think he thought it was the government doing this. Not the companies.

[divad838]

@angryahole This video explains net neutrality in a way my 6 year old will understand. So I'm gonna assume your 5.

[om3g488]

@angryahole Riiiiiiight... Because it wasn't the govt that made the internet in the first place.

[om3g488]

@angryahole Riiiiiiight... Cause it wasn't the govt. that made the internet in the first place. This is as dumb as saying, "Keep your govt. hands off my medicare/medicade." If it weren't for the govt and the CIA you wouldn't have the internet in the first place.

[skaterboy379]

@angryahole we pay money, they advertise their products, wat more do they want unless *we're* doing illegal stuff, porn, torrents.

[ryuddrfreak]

LMFAO!!!! if you keep clicking @ 50: repeatedly it sounds like shes saying orgasm.

[burnt2acrisp]

On the flip side, if a crisis happens in an area and the local ISPs want to designate the data going to and from the disaster area as high priority, under a net neutrality regulation this would be illegal! Be careful what you wish for here, unintended consequences abound in all regulation decisions. I am against net neutrality, and I believe anti-trust laws will already protect us from most of what the net neutrality regulations try to scare us with.

[submetropolis]

umm I think you just hit the real problem. The telco's and cable companies control who you use in your area. THAT'S IT...

Lets not put a band aid on a problem and Get GOVERNMENT INVOLVED. nothing becomes free when you involve the gov. Think about it.

[frodomcgee]

The best way to combat the mainstream media is to buy music, movies, magazines, and newspapers only from alternative media, independent studios, and record labels. Sell/trade any DVDs and CDs you have from the big 6 media conglomerates. Don't use myspace or IGN which are owned by Fox. Give up a little so your kids don't have to give up a lot.

[Argonaut22j]

Isn't youtube owned by fox?

[Argonaut22j]

Pardon me, they're owned by Google. Whew! Sigh of relief!

[allendupras]

@frodomcgee why record labels?? aren't they "mainstream"..... I mean it all depends with label..... if it's an independent label probably not.... but Universal Music Group?? EMI? Warner Music??

[roddack]

Obviously we should impose price controls on big business that have been granted a monopoly status by the government in their respective areas.

[clemtoe]

every argument for "net neutrality" is comprised entirely of scare stories of what the "eeevil businesses" are GONNA do.

which is funny, since the "eeevil businesses" built the system we know and love and have not so far decided to piss off their customers in the fashion the "net neutrality" fear mongers have proposed.

so isn't it worth it to consider scare stories, which have far more president, of what government owned net access might amount to?

[MrJones706]

Hey Clemtoe,

Dude, the last time ma bell had that much power, it cost 25 cents per minute to call someone who was five miles away. Either you have a really short memory or you are way young and naive.

[iridescentFUZZ]

Uhhh...what?

For some reason you dont seem to understand the implications...or cant seem to see whats going on.

If comcast could go as far as to pay jobless,indifferent idiots to fill the seats at the debate at Boston,wouldnt the ulterior motive be just as extreme?

I see the move as plainly desperate...

[RosstaPharian]

the reason there's so little competition is because of the regulations by our government that makes it nearly impossible for smaller internet service provider businesses to get started.

the answer to this problem is not more government regulation.

also, if the corporations start slowing down my connection speed, i'll be the first one who starts pooling capital to start up a cheaper high-speed competition, b/c it'll make a fortune off of their idiotic decision. Keep govt hands off the net!!!

[ed523]

were this in wikipedia the little bar at the top would say this video was full of weasel and peacock words.

it's interesting. in 1908 there was a similar debate over that new telephone thing.

[MediaHasYou]

I'll be the first to buy. =) Glad someone understands the market.

[MrJones706]

Rossta, you are retarded. I have owned an independent ISP. Prior to the break up of AT&T back in the early '80's a small business was at the mercy of "MA BELL" and she had no mercy. Telephone costs were outrageous. The reason things were so expensive is because the telephone companies essentially did not invest in infrastructure for about 50 years. In the early '90's when I started my ISP government regulation made it possible.

[nerdpoke]

But the market for the internet providerness is very monopolistic. There are very high barriers to entry and whatnot which make a monopoly what it is. That is why there is such little competition. Cuz it is a monopoly. I think the government should stay away from teh internet tubes, because they would prolly fuck it up more than the corporations. Damn government always taking away my moonshine and my still!!

[daleroes]

thank you -- this subject need much more coverage than it is getting

[turtleman6]

had no idea what any of that ment but ya!! for the little guy!!!!!

[thatsmrweedman2u]

Good overview

Bad example

If everyone is forced to use Telco endorsed classifieds, well, then Craig's List wouldn't be very popular anymore, would it?

[cagerat]

More importantly once they get their foot in the door, the other foot will follow - and if we end up with the same type of administration that we have today, it'll happen under the radar. Think long term.

How much say have you had over government control? Not much, I'm sure.

Did google, ebay, yahoo, and craig's list rise to the top because of government control? No.

[cagerat]

The downside of net neutrality is that it paves the way for government control of the Internet.

Keep the Internet free from government control - The government's enforcement of controls costs money. Guess where that money will come from. (yet another loan from the Federal Reserve - and more taxes from us to pay for the debt).

[inaneframe]

HEAR HEAR!! All in favor of a "Beating to Death of All Who Oppose Net Neutrality Commission" bash your heads into the keyboard in your reply to this comment!! uhui; fewefuilweur weiu ssddrtrthtdrgtrdst ettrhtrth

[cosmicjoker27]

Suck my goddamn cock you cheap motherfucker

[5LOWPL4Y]

Coming soon: BRANDED INTERNET. For example, though "AT&T" or "Comcast" may have a network in your neighborhood, soon you will enjoy choice of branded internet from a different company through their network...just like IPTV. The biggest obstacle is getting our local networks built BIG enough to deal with the bandwidth. It needs to happen FAST. Big questions...How to get it done?...Who PAYS to build it? If Gov't gets involved = FEES FOR ALL (on internet bill)...constant bickering...slow build.

[beatnutone]

R is for Rat. inet isnt free since its development, there were always and always will be sites deleted due to its "system critic" value. btw nice merchandise for sony vaio LOL

[stickievix]

Wow. My brain switched off after about a minute..

[jeanwean]

one of the best. thank you

[BobinMT]

Anyone using a telephone co broadband has to have deep pockets anyway. If congress had any balls they would enforce bait and switch fair trade laws on phone co providers, but it is new technology? Kinda like the old shell game being made legal cause you use a microchip ninstead of a pea.... elect smart people, throw the old dumbasses out!!

[PFET59]

you are awesome and beautiful as well... I love how you think. Bravo

[megamarsvin]

Very cool vid, stupid shirt, sorry girl ^_^

[thetruthfirst]

Are you aware of the next round of net neutrality. We're looking for help to get the word out like you did last year that beat the bill. You can see us at thetruthfirst let me know if you can help. rick You captured the essence.. great video.

[ge77inhigh]

wow ur hot..........this is why i love internet....u could come to my house any day n use all the internet u want....

[smithm34]

lol, damn your hot and smart... got a boyfriend lmfao.

[saltjoe]

What's so smart about these pseudo-intellectual activists? By simply becoming other people's mouthpiece & repeating stuff she hasn't got a slightest idea? Unlike 1960's REAL activists, any today's loudmouth is an "activist". Just throw in phrases like "evil corporations, freedom of speech & human right", and she's in like flint? I bet they have no clue how internet works, beyond mumbo jumbo "Save the Internet" & "neutrality" cleverly conceived by eBay. Same "evil", different side of table.

[saltjoe]

Few things offend me more than uninformed pseudo intellectuals fighting a cause they can't even comprehend. NN is about content providers against pipeline providers. Too cheap for Akamai service, Amazon & cronies duped these amateur-activists as their foot soldiers by wrapping it with "save the net" slogans. Unless you're Tim Wu or Vinton Cerf (both NN backers), read & understand the proposal first. Then speak. Your ignorance will only propagate noise you can't even comprehend.

[discronificator]

absolutely correct they are just parroting everything they hear, its all empty slogans. all net neutrality is is corporation "a" vs corporation "b" in this case its BIG RETAIL trying to expropriate BIG TELECOM. what disturbs me about this whole thing is how easily the most belligerent corporatism is passed off as "progressive", and how every 16 yr old automatically buys it.

[rbairos1]

I'm with ghoti06. Im not a shill, or a corporate sell-out. My livlihood actually depends on fast free internet for as many people as possible. But net-neutrality is based on fantasy. Every aspect of net access is based on money (dialup vs dsl, upload vs download, advertising vs adfree, however much money google pours into bandwidth and its 400,000 servers) etc etc. Net neutrality will just allow government to turn a private thriving business into a regulated utility.

[SeizureChords]

Because of Global warming the penguins are eating the whales food,You never write me dolphin poetry anymore and its just as cheap for two to go the aerial gunning for wolves as it is for one. Travis Ray Cole

[meemer440]

Ha ha what a terrible argument. Net neutrality is a matter of life and death? What a joke. I think that if Telecom companies strictly regulated the internet it would be super lame, but this video is just ludicrous.

[peepdittyalmond00718]

R is RAD

[stickievix]

Wow. So what's Net Neutrality again?!

[discronificator]

a massive corporatist scam on the part of BIG INTERNET BUISINESS (google,youtube,amazon,microso­ft,disney)to expropriate BIG TELE-COMMUNICATIONS(at&t,veriz­on,time warner) and btw as for "content blocking" thats already illegal, net neutrallity has nothing to do with that, and even if blocking were legal the telecoms have no interest in blocking sites, limiting your access to content would actually limit their revenues.

[KristianCuban13]

eehh its only in USA... phuw thank good!

[estgar1]

think again jelly brains, most of the more world wide polupar websites go through U.S home servers... well.. if those servers are also behind the filthers when guess who wont be watching his videos on youtube or posting anything?

[nazoun]

if they make that sucky for the entire world, people will start hosting from other countries, so that they at least can reach the rest of the world, so maybe it will also bring US in a little kind of isolation, after all, no reason to make a site in english if most people that speak english can't see it because it isn't accessable?

[tnekkc]

I did not learn anything.

She IS foxy.

Who paid for the glitz?

[PuppetSoul]

I actually feel less informed about the subject than before I saw this... Thanks rocketboom!

[MCRLuver4Eva01]

You made a really good standpoint

I never even heard of this....

I think you did a great job proving your point

This interests me now... I want to look into it more

Thanks for posting this

[CoxEmployee]

I recently came across this video that mentions Cox and wanted to share Craig Newmark's take on the issue. Specifically, Craig said it was just a software bug and "the whole thing was exacerbated by folks talking about net neutrality." You can go to Craig's blog directly and read the posting he made on June 20th, 2006.

[Ikoris]

The following U.S. House of Representatives members want to destroy the internet:

Howard Coble (North Carolina), Lamar S. Smith (Texas) Steve Chabot (Ohio), Spencer Bachus (Alabama), John N. Hostettler (Indiana), Ric Keller (Florida), J. Randy Forbes (Virginia), Steve King (Iowa), Tom Feeney (Florida), Trent Franks (Arizona), Darrell E. Issa (California), Mark Green (Wisconsin), Elton Gallegly (California)

For proof, search YouTube for this: net neutrality judiciary committee roll call vote

[tfbbm]

Finally, an explanation that can be understood.

[DutchBass]

I think its everywhere, though i haven't heard about that, and i dont hope so...

[conradgermanteacher]

real good video !

[loyster]

wow..i heard this was only in america..

[Molari]

I agree that the internet should stay as it is. Tiered system would blow, and would annihilate this new era of communication that the work is enjoying.

However, since the TelCo's own all the infrastructure used by the Internet, I don't see we can ethically stop them :( Save us jesus!

[biped19]

This is hilarious and true. As for anyone paranoid about speed on the Internet don't be quick to jump into bed with the corporations. The 'stuff' that others are referring to is a moot point. Ever since they began installing the fiber-optic system, bandwidth is a non-issue. The reason for this is that information (light pulses) travels through these cables at the speed of light. That's 300,000 Km per second, or 186,000 miles per second.

[LordCid]

Yeah Ghoti06 is misleading you>.>.... he/she obvously doesnt care about the internet or you for that manner...

[dancrew32]

shes kinda pretty much fine.

[pablosci]

they are creating a new internet to poors and rich ones. so, all of us, who cant pay the wich service, the internet will suck and we are bot gonna have download priority. we are gonna be the scum, and its gonna be more slow. its just makes me sick. internet is from all. not from them.

[Besserwisser77]

In the future the whole internet is gonna be replaced with modems....

[Besserwisser77]

@pablosci

In the future the whole internet is gonna be replaced with modems....

[Tokanova]

Do we really NEED to upgrade the internet? It seems fine as is.

[beervolcano]

Yeah, 3 black and white channels were great. Why did we ever change?

[tamangandapio]

Don't listen to Ghoti06, he/she is just spreading blatant misinformation. The video is correct, and so is Ninja. And Google. And Moby. And whoever isn't interested in increasing the already excessive power telcos hold.

[pablosci]

Support what is ours.

http://www.google.com/help/net­neutrality.html

[beervolcano]

How the hell did you get a url in a gootube comment? Hmm, I guess there isn't gootube comment neutrality.

[EricJaffa]

The principle of Net Neutrality has been applied to the web from the start until an FCC ruling last year. We should keep Net Neutrality which has given us the great internet we have today.

The claim by AT&T that they need to extort websites because otherwise they can't come up with the money to upgrade the internet is ridiculous. AT&T has lots of money.

Support Net Neutrality. Ask your Senators to vote for S. 2917, Internet Freedom Preservation Act.

[ghoti06]

she has it all wrong on cox and craigslist. first of all, it's a software flaw, and it needs to be resolved on craigslist's end, not cox's. cox doesn't have a competing service like she implies, and even craig newmark has confirmed this has nothing to do with net neutrality. this is even more misleading than the ninja guy

I highly recommend you check out our side at <a href="http://handsoff.org">Han­ds Off the Internet</a>.

[lefte3]

ghoti06 is a TROLL.

The Hands Off site is just a front for the telcos, who want to get paid three times for something they have already been paid twice for (once from the provider, Google or Craigs; and once from the end users!)

[moonflamed]

Unless Ghoti06 is just unable or unwilling to see the forest for the trees then He/She is a Shill for the Tel Coms. The above Video Is a great way to understand how the Tel Coms are... this sounds alot like sh-t you poor sods in the USA have to deal with that Health Care System of yours, that we in Canada are now being pushed into...Nasty

[Rakumaru]

SO ghoti06 you like youtube.com, like the internet now. Good things should be left alone ^^