23 Jun, 2006, kiasyn wrote in the 1st comment:
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How will the problem (at savetheinternet.com) affect MUDs? will it make them unplayable…??!
23 Jun, 2006, Dragona wrote in the 2nd comment:
I don't know how it will affect MUDs, but in general it is just outragious.
23 Jun, 2006, Tyche wrote in the 3rd comment:
kiasyn said:
How will the problem (at savetheinternet.com) affect MUDs? will it make them unplayable…??!
You can play muds now.
The "net neutrality" idiots want the US goverment to regulate the internet.
Say NO to "net neutrality".
http://www.internetofthefuture.org/
http://www.handsoff.org/
BTW ask the sky-is-falling crowd about how their last FUD crusade that "would kill mudding" worked out:
I noticed most of them quietly removed the retarded banner from their mud pages.
23 Jun, 2006, Tacitus wrote in the 4th comment:
"Net neutrality idiots" want the US government to prevent ISPs from making the internet "private" where they can give prefered treatment to their partners and those with money in their pockets. It could turn very ugly if ISPs are allowed to do this - the internet is ment to be free.
23 Jun, 2006, Tyche wrote in the 5th comment:
Tacitus said:
"Net neutrality idiots" want the US government to prevent ISPs from making the internet "private" where they can give prefered treatment to their partners and those with money in their pockets. It could turn very ugly if ISPs are allowed to do this - the internet is ment to be free.
The internet has worked that way for twenty years, a free and unregulated market. ISPs are already allowed to charge any customer anything they damn well want. Socialists want the government to take it over and ruin it. First comes price fixing, followed by horrid service, then comes taxation and finally comes FCC-like rules on content.
Write your congressman and tell them to keep their grubby greedy little paws off the internet.
Lastly just from pure selfish interest alone, text mudders and mud server owners are NOT going to pay premium rates. Those in danger of of paying premium rates are those who stream video/sound/telephony content. That's right our competition, those who suck internet bandwidth, graphical MMORPGs.
24 Jun, 2006, kiasyn wrote in the 6th comment:
24 Jun, 2006, Guest wrote in the 7th comment:
I have no great trust in the telecom industry so I can see why people are worried about what "net neutrality" will mean for them. The promise of lower prices through competition when they deregulated AT&T was a laughable joke.
That being said, preemptive legislation is not the answer to the problem. The government should back off and see where things go. If the telcos start doing what people fear and begin throttling competing services then Congress should act accordingly and slap the shit out of them will regulations to stop them. We can't trust that negative publicity alone will be enough to keep the telcos in line.
That being said, preemptive legislation is not the answer to the problem. The government should back off and see where things go. If the telcos start doing what people fear and begin throttling competing services then Congress should act accordingly and slap the shit out of them will regulations to stop them. We can't trust that negative publicity alone will be enough to keep the telcos in line.
