Oh no more Clixsense

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/15/16768088/internet-providers-plans-without-net-neutrality-comcast-att-verizon

then log out and don't come back

You're totally out of mind

Adios sourpie3000 , you will be missed here

Dear sourpie3000 , make your 3 cent balance cash out now before CSi s killed with net neutrality

Like me , my ballance here is 0.00 now

Balance $0.0039

ISPs need to make more money so that they can justify their $100 Billion a year "aquisition budgets"

The Justice Department is suing AT&T to block its $85 billion bid for Time Warner - The Washington Post

I don't see how that translates into no more clixsense? You don't even know what it means for mainstream sites or rival sites to those offered by the big companies....it seems the U.S. is becoming more and more a place where the consumer is having their choices of what to access, what to watch etc being removed from them and made by someone else...not exactly a democracy! Seems to me the removal of these rules is purely for the big companies to make more money by allowing them to charge more to access rival sites etc and also to be able to slow down competitor offerings making their own products more appealing. I could go on but I'd be getting into dangerous "political" arena which is banned on here

Yep, and those companies become bigger and thwart smaller companies.

Consider this: if AT&T succeeds in acquiring Time Warner, it would mean AT&T would be the new owner of the following:

-Cable Channels:
HBO, Cinemax, TNT, TBS, CNN, Cartoon Network, TruTV, Turner Sports, and others.

^This includes all of their original programming.

-The entire Hana Barbera collection
(A huge catalog of hundreds of pre 90s cartoons including: Scooby Doo, The Jetsons, Flintstones, etc)

-A current major Hollywood studio (example recently released the movie "IT")
As well as the entire Warner Bros film catalog (Example: Harry Potter, and thousands more)

-The Music and Video Game publishing units of Warner Bros along with all of their subsidiarys.

-DC Comics (AT&T would own the rights to Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the D.C. Universe)

Etc...

In my opinion, any time you allow government to rule a piece of the pie,
the pie becomes smaller and the government larger and your right to
choose becomes more confined, if you have a right to choose at all.

I would certainly vote for it's removal and say good riddance and I do
welcome it's removal.

Competition is always a good thing.

I don't think in America that the American people care if the company is
small or large. I think they care about what they get and the price.

For example, NONE of you have ever heard of my internet service. For
people such as myself that live in rural areas, it can be good and it can
be bad. The small companies in rural areas still win because we don't
have all that competition. These small companies are making money
and they are absolutely not thwarted by big companies because the
big companies don't know how to run cable thru creek beds.

The bad part is that the small companies can increase prices and that
gives people such as myself, almost no choice since there is little to no
competition.

No matter what, I prefer to not see internet government control. There
is little doubt in my mind, it will return in a different form some day and
some day, you may not have the opportunities that you have today.

valerie wrote:

Competition is always a good thing.

I don't think in America that the American people care if the company is
small or large. I think they care about what they get and the price.

When big companies, especially Cable companies monopolize content it decreases competition and increases prices.

If Cable companies own most of the Cable channels. They raise the price entry for alternatives like Sling TV or Playstation Vue, who now have to deal with their own competitors for content and to continue licensing those Cable entities.

The net effect is that prices across the board go up.

As for ending net neutrality,
It could be the first step towards online censorship, such as the war on "fake news"
The Feds no longer have to chase International Cyber Crime in the US when they can require the ISPs to block it entirely.

I guess I believe the Feds do what they want to do.

Net Neutrality was almost like a trial period and a very brief one at that since it
did not last but a couple of years if that.

So from the beginning, I have never noticed much difference in anything other
than the rising prices over time. That has taken place without Net Neutrality and
with Net Neutrality. It has not mattered in regards to internet provider costs.
There has for a very long time, been various data plans and higher speed packs.
The more you want, the more you pay for.

Everything rises in price over the years or most everything, just like food.

Look at everything the net has offered over all these years without Net Neutrality
and I personally have not noticed anything different with it other than the government
attempting control of the www.

I have Amazon Prime, Hulu, Netflix, all three for less than $30 per month. That's not
bad at all, at least not in my opinion. In regards to DISH, I pay approximately $49 per
month. Many people have cut their cable or satellite service totally and others like
myself, cut their package way down. So for approximately $80 a month there is always
something I can find to watch plus I have the Amazon cloud storage, book every month,
two day shipping, etc. I mean seriously, that is not bad at all.

In regards to mobile phone service.....well come on, there's a lot of people that have
wised up on that too. I once paid approximately $75 a month for years to Verizon and
in the last few years, I turned to TracFone and I don't have a monthly bill. I buy a new
Samsung smart phone with included service and minutes every year to two years...cost
= Approximately $110 a year. I wouldn't even gander a guess at how many people are
paying close to a thousand dollars for a mobile phone and paying $100 on upwards per
month for service. I about fell out of my chair one day listening to a news show on tv
that displayed a family mobile phone bill.....almost $1,000 per month. WOW! People
have surely lost their priorities. All I could think of is how many starving children that
could feed every month.

I really can't or shouldn't complain about my internet service. The speed is not super
fast but it is good. I pay approximately $80 per month for internet service that includes
landline phone service.

Bottomline, what I am saying is, there are a lot of things we can control without the
government. We can choose to not have cable service or not have satellite service or
only choose one streaming service or not pay thousands of dollars a year for a mobile
phone and data charges and etc.

As human beings in the midst of the totem pole, we are a majority. Not the government.
Not the conglomerates. Not the satellite companies. Not the cable companies. Without
you and I, where will those companies be? If we all canceled our bills tomorrow, where
would they be?

Just Sayin.

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