Interesting discussion... I've been following developments with regard to net neutrality recently & I've wondered what impact the loss of this precept might have on sites such as PC.

Originally Posted by The Skeezyks

Interesting discussion... I've been following developments with regard to net neutrality recently & I've wondered what impact the loss of this precept might have on sites such as PC.

The loss would be if say comcast decided to charge a fee for speed or placement on sites they control they could slow down access to the site. A fee could be an issue if it is large enough. Placement matters more if there is heavy competition but that really isn't the case. Or the company could refuse access to end users if they simply didn't like it. No, that probably isn't likely but net neutrality would ensure it isn't possible.

If comcast limit access to a site it would effect google results because there are less hits.

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I've heard it suggested that internet access could become like cable TV is now. You get a few basic websites for free. Then, beyond that, you have to buy "packages" of different sites. So what I have wondered about is if we end users might find ourselves in situations like having to choose between, say, 2 different websites because they're not both available in the same "package" & you don't want to or can't afford more than one.

Originally Posted by The Skeezyks

I've heard it suggested that internet access could become like cable TV is now. You get a few basic websites for free. Then, beyond that, you have to buy "packages" of different sites. So what I have wondered about is if we end users might find ourselves in situations like having to choose between, say, 2 different websites because they're not both available in the same "package" & you don't want to or can't afford more than one.

Well that would be awful!

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So what if someone had their own personal website? What would be the point of having said website if only a small group of people who bought the package it's in can see it? It's not like we aren't paying for the internet already…we pay for cable/DSL, if you own a site, you pay for the domain name, and there's ads all over the place.

Well, if they do switch to that, I better be getting a cut of the profits for people visiting my site that people would then be paying at least twice to see.

And does anyone else see this as a ploy to censor information to the poor? This also limits free speech, if not other basic rights. So I would think it would be ruled unconstitutional.

Originally Posted by I.Am.The.End.

So what if someone had their own personal website? What would be the point of having said website if only a small group of people who bought the package it's in can see it? It's not like we aren't paying for the internet already…we pay for cable/DSL, if you own a site, you pay for the domain name, and there's ads all over the place.

Well, if they do switch to that, I better be getting a cut of the profits for people visiting my site that people would then be paying at least twice to see.

And does anyone else see this as a ploy to censor information to the poor? This also limits free speech, if not other basic rights. So I would think it would be ruled unconstitutional.

Yes. And we can speculate all day long. We can pretend it is not in comcasts "best interest" but the bottom line is net neutrality would protect us from this.

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[pachyderm]

I don't think Psych Central is a bandwidth hog -- it doesn't take a lot of bandwidth to post text or even pictures, so I don't know that any Internet provider would have any interest in demoting it in speed of service they would provide to access PC.

No, I don't think so either. Most small business and blog ... The ones made by entrepreneurs and individual contributors aren't either. Would rather they not have the power to do so. The world will change in ways we can't predict

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[DocJohn]

Yes, since we're not YouTube/Google or the like -- who take up huge amounts of the Internet's bandwidth -- we're not overly concerned about these issues. It makes sense a company like Comcast is going to spend their time going after the big bucks with those who can afford to pay. If they go after every small business like ours, that would be an enormous undertaking and cost...

DocJohn

Unless of course they come up with some clever scheme we could never predict . Nobody, nobody guessed what would happen with derivatives when they were first devised. They only knew they would made a lot of flippen money and that was good enough. Such a clever scheme... I personally think we all need to be concerned as citizens.

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