INTERNET UNDER ATTACK! | Net Neutrality & Why It Matters (Links In Description) Credit: Totalbiscuit
Channel: Edit:Ed
Date: 2017-07-12

https://www.battleforthenet.com/july12/ - Fight to keep #NetNeutrality
https://www.eff.org/issues/net-neutrality
https://netneutrality.internetassociation.org/action/

This is a short video explaining in simple terms what Net Neutrality is and the consequences of abolishing it with the dishonestly named Restoring Internet Freedom Act. You are encouraged to share this non-profit video with anyone and if you wish to use it in your videos or streams, it is licensed under Creative Commons for free use, with attribution and without any alteration. You can download the video for your use using any Youtube Downloader program or site. Alternatively at the link https://t.co/PFJmPdwKnc

Sources for claims made in this video can be found below.

Short 2014 Net Neutrality video - https://youtu.be/rz4Ej3IVefo

https://www.extremetech.com/internet/249575-fcc-votes-kill-net-neutrality-dismantle-title-ii-rules-governing-isps
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/net-neutrality-goes-down-in-flames-as-fcc-votes-to-kill-title-ii-rules/
http://www.twcondemand.com/
http://bgr.com/2017/05/23/comcast-fcc-net-neutrality-legal-analysis/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/04/isps-claim-to-love-net-neutrality-while-praising-death-of-net-neutrality-rules/
https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/24/comcast-tries-to-shut-down-pro-net-neutrality-site/
https://www.wired.com/2017/01/dont-gut-net-neutrality-good-people-business/
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603432/what-happens-if-net-neutrality-goes-away/
https://www.ft.com/content/2469772e-2f19-11e7-9555-23ef563ecf9a?mhq5j=e1
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/dont-mess-up-the-net-with-partisan-politics
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/net-neutrality-comments-are-being-spammed-with-anti-obama-boilerplate/
https://consumerist.com/2017/05/10/astroturfing-robot-spamming-fcc-site-with-anti-net-neutrality-comments/

A Message From The OverEnglishMan (If anyone is still reading this far).
Firstly, I will not be answering comments on this video. I'm leaving them open because comments drive "engagement" and thus search ratings, but I won't be replying, to me this isn't a discussion but a message.
This is not my video (although I did click-bait-ify the title). No I haven't been hacked, but Totalbiscuit explains this better than I ever could. Short version is thus. Imagine you use Google Search and your flatmate uses Bing. With net neutrality, everything is even. Without it, Google might be so slow as to be near unusable, while Bing runs a dream. Why? Because Bing paid off the ISP to be put in a "Fast Lane" while Google didn't cough up. Meaning you, the consumer has less reason to use Google, so instead you use Bing. The competition was scuppered because ISP wanted to play what is basically tantamount to a protection racket.

Google and Bing is one thing, but in reality it'd be ANY challengers to the existing bigwigs who get slow-laned. So that's all startup companies, all newborn websites. How hard will it be to get popular and trending with your new storefront, blog, innovation site etc when you barely load compared to the already established with deeper pockets? 

This hurts competition, breeds complacency because companies can just throw money at their problems until they go away, knowing the majority will have nowhere else or go, or be unwilling to bear the slowdown - it hurts creativity. I'm against it. If you are for some reason in favour of the positively preposterously wealthy becoming even wealthier, while the new generation of business and creators are bullied and strongarmed by holding basic necessities hostage. Then I'm afraid we're at a philosophical impasse.

Today is my birthday. I ask the world for my present, Net Neutrality's protection. Stand up, people! #battleforthenet