Had an epiphany on why the government get lobbied by Comcast

"R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet" (r-saldana)
04/13/2015 at 11:30 • Filed to: None

Comcast, as an arm of the media/internet wants to be able to restrict access to many kinds of information. The Internet is the single most effective tool against totalitarian governments. Need weapons, tools, knowledge on police/military whereabouts? Just fire up a Tor browser and begin to snorkel in the deep web for the information you need. Comcast, as a business benefits more that than the Chinese government if they are able to continue to provide such terrible service and access to information.

If we the citizens are unable to learn about all the sordid details of the politicians in office, we remain ignorant and stupid; thereby making us unable to affect chaneg by removing their corrupt asses from government.

\Rant 30

Anyone want to have a conversation about the further strangling of information in the USA?

DISCUSSION (17)

505Turbeaux > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
04/13/2015 at 11:32

not on Oppo, I wouldn't want to lose respect for people I currently have respect for by diving into a dirty politics/government discussion here

Also, usualy pol speak is under cover image with a warning here, similar to old NSFW

For Sweden > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
04/13/2015 at 11:32

I think it's mostly about making money.

HammerheadFistpunch > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
04/13/2015 at 11:34

or...or. Um, its more profitable to be able to charge people for volume not at unit prices.

crowmolly > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
04/13/2015 at 11:34

Have you ever used the Internet in China? No proxy or any of that. Actually connected to straight up Chinese service?

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
04/13/2015 at 11:36

Just look at all the countries that block Twitter/Facebook/etc when shits going down (here's looking at you country whose name is a lunch meat). If you take away their voice and information, what are they left with?

(This given that a majority of citizens don't know anything about vpns or getting around the blocks. BUT the ones who do are usually the ones telling the rest of the world what's going on. So props to them)

Tapas > For Sweden
04/13/2015 at 11:44

Agreed. Its about squeezing as much as they can get from their customer base without making any significant investments to their infrastructure at the lowest cost possible.

That's why all cable providers still try to bundle and sell the crap out of their landline phone plans. Because that gives them free access to existing government infrastructure for those lines. And have you seen their interface on the cable box? Or how ancient their equipment is - for which they rent out $10 a month by default?

They already divvy up their internet speeds more than they should and get away with the upto 50MBPS loophole, giving people the false sense of comfort that they'll be fine if they stream multiple movies, play mmorpg and skype chat while they upload 4k YouTube vids and backup their computers to the cloud - because of that big number.

I think everyone who has Comcast should do that all month non-stop, just for funsies in the hopes to fuck up their network and force them to improve service.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > 505Turbeaux
04/13/2015 at 11:47

Whoops, my bad, sorry.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Tapas
04/13/2015 at 11:49

Could not agree more. I will be fronting the construction charge willingly to Google for Fiber next year.

505Turbeaux > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
04/13/2015 at 11:49

oh dont sweat it man, mostly for pretty inflammatory pol discussions, but worth knowing about

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > HammerheadFistpunch
04/13/2015 at 11:49

Bandwidth caps must die!!!

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > crowmolly
04/13/2015 at 11:51

No, but I did stay at a holiday inn express last night, lol.

But seriously, the closest I have been to China was South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos.

crowmolly > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
04/13/2015 at 11:56

Reason I ask is because even though I was prepared for their "censorship" I was still stunned at it.

Got stuck using Yahoo for searching, and even then the page loads were super slow as my search results were sanitized. Not kidding.

Comcast's greed knows little bounds, no doubt ($1000 service charge to go from 10/10 to 20/20? Really?) but I don't really have faith in them being a content regulator.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
04/13/2015 at 12:06

Took me at least 3 minutes to realize what country you were talking about. They have done this as a practice in the military. When an attack happens or service members get killed they go into "River City" which means they lock down external communication (phones, external internet, etc) until they have notified the families.

It's more like they don;t want US military from leaking that the enemy operation was effective and further bolstering their confidence.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > 505Turbeaux
04/13/2015 at 12:07

Kinja'd!!!

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > crowmolly
04/13/2015 at 12:13

Given enough of the market it would only take time to limit and regulate content

crowmolly > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
04/13/2015 at 12:16

I'm sure they could do it if they wanted to. But that takes away effort from squeezing dollars out of your every orifice.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
04/13/2015 at 12:55

military force shutdowns for com/mission critical makes sense. But the problem is when countries do it during elections or peaceful protest. That's not cool.