Path: csiph.com!news.fcku.it!peer01.fr7!futter-mich.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fx06.fr7.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RS Wood Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Net neutrality demise References: <20171121172949.029d3854.rsw@therandymon.com> X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.13.2 (GTK+ 2.24.30; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 18 X-Complaints-To: abuse@blocknews.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:00:06 UTC Organization: blocknews - www.blocknews.net Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 18:58:19 -0500 X-Received-Bytes: 1668 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2334226477 Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:15027 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.