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The End of Net Neutrality?

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Toll Booths and Pay For Access

It has been coming for a while. We have all known this. If Net Neutrality was old Mike Tyson, he has been on the ropes for quite some time just waiting for TKO. And wouldn’t you know it, after years and years of fighting, the knockout punch has finally been swung. Decided on January 14, 2014 by the United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit, the long standing FCC Open Internet Order was knocked down. The court ruling determined by passing the Open Internet Order (the FCC never used the terminology Net Neutrality) the FCC went far beyond their power abilities to determine how ISP’s manage and deal with traffic across their networks. The FCC ruling meant all traffic was to be viewed in the same manner – equal. The new court ruling is the first step in the process of ISP providers having the ability to determine what traffic gets prime placement and what traffic has to pay a bit more. Call it toll booths barring open Internet access or call it ISP’s regulating a source of global empowerment, the first TKO has been landed against old Mike.

The question now becomes not if Net Neutrality will fall but when? If history serves as any purpose, the war is just starting.

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2013 Has Been A Terrible Year for the Internet

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2013 is over. 2014 begins.

In 2013, we published 84 blogs. This is the 85th. The last of 2013.

With the last blog of 2013, instead of chatting about the Cloud, instead of talking about web hosting and instead of talking about how to resolve Linux OS issues, we are going to tackle a much larger topic – one we touched on yesterday in “The Internet is Broken. The Cloud Is Next.” For the last Solar VPS blog of 2014 we are going to talk about the continuing broken state of the Internet, the problem with Verizon, AT&T and Comcast, and why, once and for all, American ISP’s need to match or better the offered Internet speeds of Google Fiber.

Yes, this will be a rant blog. Yes, this will be a blog lamenting the state of the Internet. Yes, this will be a blog lambasting ISP’s and their horrible practices. Yes, it’s 2014 and we are mad as hell.

The Internet Is Broken

We normally don’t link to other sources but if you missed it, do yourself a favor and read the Esquire blog titled, “The Year We Broke the Internet.” Trust us, it’s a critical read to understand where our Internet culture currently stands. If you choose not to read it, no surprise, the Internet is broken. The reason? Us. Yes, us.

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