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rip net neutrality
| #JustDemocracyThings
| How long before we start seeing its effects?
| Corruption in action.
| But ah still gots muh gunz!
| rip
| we should do something against this
| Someone should file a supremem court case because this is the most blatant example of corruption I've seen in the US in a long time, and the US is pretty fucking corrupt so that's saying something.
| Probably soon we will see service multiplexing at the network level. It is not trivial to do, but I see it being sesearched on. I already know of providers who would not allow irc traffic for example, in the standard 6667/7000 ports. And I have also seen irc servers listening to port 80 or 443 or 53. And it was ssl/tls encrypted. While one vpn software negotiated the sessions appearing like webserver and webbrowser to each other and encapsulating the data in the encrypted packets.
| Revolt with your guns
| The real solution to this is to embrace mesh networking. It's not perfect but it's a start make internet access owned by the people. If you're living in Manhattan see if you can join the local mesh
| There may be other mesh groups outside Manhattan too, I'm not sure..
| >>314829
My country's internet has been as free as it can get with dozens of ISPs and there's no net neutrality rules in place. The real issue I see is the vast corporate monopolization in the US.
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| the repeal got steamrolled and NN is toast until the house does something about it (despite the fact that 80% of polled americans wanted to keep NN around). all those petitions, online posts, and letters/emails to congressmen really added up to something. we sure showed those billion-dollar isps and corporations, didn't we
this is democracy at its finest