
Originally Posted by
jeb the hick
Let us suppose you own a taco cart. In this analogy your customers are the Internet users. You, the cart owner, are the ISP, and the ingredients are the content providers (google, netflix, etc). Normally, when a user wants a taco (or a web service) they go up to the cart, take what they want and as much as they want on a plate. Everyone gets their favorite types of tacos and they can eat as much as they want. However, sometimes users prefer one ingredient a lot, say... ground beef and lettuce. They love it so much that your users are fucking crowding around the taco cart trying to get a lot, but there's a problem of capacity. Normally, this shouldn't be an issue, because as a taco cart owner, you borrowed money from the local government with the intention of opening more taco carts to keep up with customer demand. After all, in a modern society, every man woman and child should have access to tacos, right? But instead of opening more taco carts, you spent that money on hookers and blow. So now, you want to charge the special ingredients more money to give them more space on the cart. So if everyone wants ground beef, you offer two or three trays of beef instead of the one tray equal to what everyone else (lettuce, tomatos, etc) has.
Net Neutrality, or in our case, Taco Neutrality is the idea that you, as the taco cart owner, may not discriminate against one ingredient compared to others. You are simply the provider of tacos and should not interfere with the ingredients or the customers' access to those ingredients.
The FCC's right to slow down traffic isn't really what's at issue here. The FCC wants to mandate that ISPs maintain network neutrality.
In this case, bad.
Good when they want to improve the rights of consumers, bad when they make sure you can't swear on television. In this case, good.
Neither good, nor bad. Not the highest court in the united states, and this court only has a small jurisdiction in the DC area.
Consumers should be rooting for the FCC
It applies to the US and traffic that is routed through the US.
Si.