And much less so in a random, professionally-cut interview under no penalty, with a decidedly-hostile news organization.

https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1046593627202498560

This is a "She said, they said otherwise."

https://twitter.com/EFF/status/1046559134173130752 CA brings back net neutrality and makes building local broadband networks easier

Reading the report Schedrevka linked. It's refreshing to see that this is a matter of record.

This is seriously the most sane print on paper I've read in a while.

@aukkras No, what they've done is _made local broadband networks a concern of the state_, which will probably go very badly since this is California we are talking about.

When "city planners" determine how many fibers travel to you, and force you to pay into _their_ scheme, you are well and truly had by the balls.

Everything bad that's happened with the internet since the repeal seems to be stuff that has to do with tech giants originally built with government grants now owning all the platforms.

Aside from the Verizon throttling that fire department I guess

If they wanted to make building local broadband networks easier, they would find some way to enhance the permitting process for laying new fiber, and reduce the cost of buying space in cable conduits.

(and include cable conduits with new major road projects)

Well, it's not so much that Verizon throttled the fire department

it's that the fire department bought the wrong package, consistently overran their allotment, and then when the system automatically throttled their connection for misuse, they suddenly cared.

Yeah my mistake

it's great that it didn't just shut off, or some nonsense like that.

then they go crying to the press

"boo hoo we bought too little internet and it ran out"

I forgot the big worry without net neutrality is that like, Comcast will selectively throttle content

It's not like they woke up in the morning and thought "ahh, let's interrupt a city service"

"selectively"

I mean, Comcast has a thousand good reasons for shit to be delivered at different rates anyway.

from the basic technical perspective, their own first-party services, and services directly affiliated with them, are likely to be served from directly inside their own colocation centers.

(or even closer to the edge)

which means that they don't pay peering charges, and don't have to power up nearly as much equipment to make it work

seems to me that that should be allowed to be cheaper, it is in fact more efficient.

(not that that means you'll want Comcast's shitty streaming service, because chances are they will not get the hot licenses Netflix gets, nor those juicy juicy Netflix originals; ditto for HBO)

And sure, they're sleazy, and constantly trying to take advantage of you

but they're not so unscrupulous that they would do things so obvious that you would complain en masse.

Comcast is a monopoly, they're always gonna fuck me one way or another

they are rarely a monopoly

They are in my area

I doubt that

you can probably get directional radio

just maybe not DSL or cable or fiber from anyone else

I was in one of the areas selected for a download cap so I thought I was but I can look into whether that's changed

And honestly Comcast having their service in your county is a matter of them being proactive with your crony government.

Comcast are the ones willing to send the lawyers with nice steak dinners and hot tubs

Comcast is a lot better than they were 15 years ago anyway

Your politicians are the ones who say whether people get to use the utility poles or not.

The folks at Comcast are subject to pressure, if they become much worse than an upstart alternative could quickly become.