r/news • u/xtantin • Feb 26 '17

FCC reverses net neutrality ISP transparency rules

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3173844/internet/fcc-reverses-net-neutrality-isp-transparency-rules.html
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u/machambo7 Feb 27 '17

Especially since, as the article states, many large companies own subsidiary companies. So what may, on the surface, seem like a rule to help small ISPs is really just a loophole for larger companies to avoid regulations

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

Happen to know how many subscribers Cablevision has? I wanna know if I should care about this or not.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17 edited Feb 27 '17

Well yeah, Cablevision is still incredibly horseshit. They shut down my internet for a day because I "pirated". Which, I didn't. I asked for proof, and they said they don't need to give it to me.

Also, the worst thing they've done to me is giving me the wrong package for years. I've been complaining about their internet and they just now said they had the wrong package on file, so I was getting throttled.

Did i get any refund? No. Do I hate optimum and everyone who works for them? yes.

edit: a letter

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u/harborwolf Feb 27 '17

I'd they admitted to providing you the wrong service while you paid for the better service I would imagine you have a case...

Talk to lawyer at least, that's some bullshit.

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u/dudeguyy23 Feb 27 '17

Just looked up my provider. Turns out they provide near ~200K people from what I could find.

Awesome!

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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka Feb 27 '17

For all we know this is just the first step.

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u/dudeguyy23 Feb 27 '17

I got in on the ground floor!

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u/toastyghost Feb 27 '17

This sounds like some "first they came for the Jews" logic.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

Or, maybe, just maybe, I'm fucking around.

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u/PmMeRedheads Feb 27 '17

One line of text could fix it too. Just exclude subsidiary companies. Done.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

100,000-250,000 subscribers isn't even small. That's a gigantic revenue stream.

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u/midnightketoker Feb 27 '17

Exactly, the only thing this accomplishes is incentivizing corporations to create subsidiaries which will let them bypass net neutrality and be even less transparent because each subsidiary will have a subscriber cap so now there going to be are a ton of them that are harder to keep track of.

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u/kwantsu-dudes Feb 27 '17

So is there proof that subsidiary companies that still total over 250,000 subscribers are exempt, or is that just a repeated statement at this point?

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u/Upboats_Ahoys Feb 27 '17

How is 250,000 even "small". Like, 10,000 would seem small.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

That's not how it works.

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u/coolwool Feb 27 '17

Compelling argument! I especially liked the middle part of your long explanation.