Who

believes this garbage?

Trump administration, in a gift to telecom firms, is pulling the plug on net neutrality

Like Telecom firms aren't already fuckin everybody's eyes out?

In the future?

When you can't get the data/content you want?

Because your ISP deliberately slows down their competition?

Seriously, they will make it so bad you will only want to view/use the data that your ISP owns the rights to.

When that happens?

Don't say you were not warned.

More and more money 

and more and more media 

concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer people.

Less choice, higher prices, restricted access.

Almost?

Almost like it's supposed to be that way.

"net neutrality is about guaranteeing a level playing field for all online services and content providers. It ensures that broadband providers such as phone and cable companies can’t give preferential treatment to anyone — their own streaming-video service, say, over Netflix or Amazon Prime Video."

"FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, (A former telecom consultant btw) is proposing to gut those rules, which he said have “depressed investment in building and expanding broadband networks and deterred innovation."

Horeseshit.

Telecoms are enjoying record profits.

If they wanted to invest in building and expanding networks?

They would be doing it already.

The day will come, when you will only be able to get the data your telecom owns the rights to, on the device the telecoms want you to have, on the network the telecom owns.

Promise.

"Cable giant Comcast owns NBC Universal’s movies and TV shows, and in September it launched a streaming-video service called Xfinity Instant TV that features a variety of cable channels.

Under current rules, Comcast couldn’t provide more reliable access to its own service or slow down rival streaming signals from the likes of Sling TV. There are no broadband fast lanes.

After Pai’s rule change takes effect, however, there would be nothing to stop Comcast from fiddling with your feed, making the prospect of broadband fast lanes — and deliberate traffic jams — very much a reality.

Comcast could demand that companies like Netflix pay extra for more reliable signals. It could also charge its own subscribers more for fast-lane access to content.

The telecom industry welcomed Pai’s rule change — although it made no commitment to actually invest in better networks."

"Harold Feld, senior vice president of the advocacy group Public Knowledge, said the repeal of net neutrality will leave internet users “completely unprotected by the FCC.”

He said the change has “more to do with gouging consumers and crushing competition than with providing new services.”

DUH.

It's one of those things where everybody's is like:

"Whatever, I don't understand it."

Then five years later?

They're like:

"This sucks! 

I thought it was bad five years ago but goodness."

Wait and see.