Got a couple pop-ups on other sites urging me to give my name and email adress to voice my whatever.
Is this why the internet is running like shit right now or is it just on my end? Also, nobody here is concerned with this (he say, totally blind to the several-pages-long thread already in progress)??
If every browser in every land got a pop-up every five minutes it would not slow your internet speed one iota.
Uh, what? I… what? You think I think the slow down is on account of the pop-ups themselves?
If so, then no. what the hell
Yeah, I get a bunch of them, too.
Half want it, and half don’t.
We’re talking proposed changes are we not? So no, that’s not why your internet is running like shit right now.
Who in the world say they don’t want Internet neutrality? Even Comcast and AT&T are putting out ads saying they are for it (but then completely undermining the concept in the fine print).
The Internet itself benefits from it. ISPs and people outside the Internet are literally the only ones who gain without it.
There is at least one poster here who wants net neutrality to go away. So he can have faster videoconferencing or something.
Yeah, I found the relevant thread in GD, but like, why’d it be there?
I really hope this isn’t another case of too many people being sure they so vastly outnumber the opposition that they couldn’t possibly lose to such obvious evil.
Come on, when has THAT ever happened! 
The political class was defeated over SOPA, but as ever — regard the noisome career of Gingrich — they just regather every few years to start again.
The Right feel that poor people are getting away with something, paying less than they could, or some such crap that always excites them mightily; the Democrats don’t oppose much either since they agree with that — and many donors make both-way bets — or the topic’s not sexy enough for them to care. If there was a distinct class of special victims being disadvantaged that might change things, but the lower classes are too universal to consider.
And let’s face it, richer people will barely be inconvenienced; they’ll just shrug and pay a bit more.
Comcast walks up to Google and says “Nice web site you got there. It’d be a shame if anything bad happened to your users’ response times. Maybe you should, you know, purchase some “insurance” from us.”
Multiply by a million web sites.
Netflix was already being throttled. Competed with cable companies’ on-demand service.