Anyone have a chance to check this out yet?
Not entirely sure what to think myself. Signed the petition anyway, since it sounds better than the alternative. Can't even begin to imagine not being able to access the SRD, PRD, or Nethys' Archives.
Or, god forbid, check out these awesome boards a few times a day!
Sounds about right from what I gathered. Tend to exaggerate with a lack of sleep. Was more referring to way-down-the-line slowing down or ridiculous price increases for places that have people downloading a lot of stuff. Like Paizo and their store, deviantart with people that DL pics for their collection, yada yada.
Or whatever it is I'm meaning if anyone manages to figure that out... Know what? I've dropped the link off for people to check out. I'm going to bed until I can formulate a more coherent thought process.
Net neutrality is a pipe dream.
It's not that the FCC doesn't want to pass it (they do!), but that it'll never get approved by Congress. Any time they go full neutrality, it gets shot down by the Republicans. Every time they go full lack of neutrality, it gets shot down by the Democrats. Every time they try to compromise, it gets shot down by the Democrats and the Republicans.
So, pretty much, the only hope the FCC has of getting any regulation at all in place is to appeal to whichever party is dominant in Congress and hope that party has enough of a majority to pass it. And the Democrats never have had that majority.
I hope it doesn't happen. Google, while a private business that makes the USG happy with loads of metadata, can afford to go low on pricing because of the fact they do get a lot of taxpayer dollars. If this world was without subsidies or tax breaks, then they might have higher costs they actually have to pay.