Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Net neutrality demise Date: 27 Nov 2017 08:32:09 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <20171121172949.029d3854.rsw@therandymon.com> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net kXUttFMPJxnp7XZaFAW8LATrjJfcMUhz/HSxcB27xBAeDFa+uL Cancel-Lock: sha1:uKR+9A05g+IsUTOY5OWRBGNZP8A= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:15030 On 2017-11-26, RS Wood wrote: > On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 21:59:59 -0000 (UTC) > Rich wrote: > >> Usenet, being text only (I'm ignoring the alt.binaries heirarchy here) >> is very unlikely to be impacted. The speed to which they would have to >> throttle to make Usenet unusable would result in *every* modern website >> being completely unusable to the point that folks would be calling up >> their provider thinking their links were down. And that support call >> flood would convince them they had throttled too far. > > Au contraire. It will be considered niche/specialty and made > unavailable in traditional packages. If you want anything other than > port 80 you'll have to upgrade to the 'curmudgeon edition' which offers > NNTP and gopher and FTP, but costs quite a bit more. > > If you want access to any non USA/EU sites, that will cost more as > well, actually. Hell, they'll segregate these markets down to the very > last domain, and charge accordingly. Scumbags. Another reason for being glad one does not live in the USA. Still, now we'll get to see if the aphorism that "the Internet treats censorship as a fault and routes around it" is true or not. -- Today is Sweetmorn, the 39th day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3183 Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.