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NetFlix just launched NetFlix on Demand. This will affect them and they are sueing.
This too is something Trump wants so he can limit and attack content and the media.
Possibly it will effect Twitter ( limiting content and throttling the content ) and then he will be messing his own pipeline up.
Google if they launch their Free Internet Access ( LOON ) for everyone it will suppress all this noise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Loon
Project Loon is a research and development project being developed by X (formerly Google X) with the mission of providing Internet access to rural and remote areas. The project uses high-altitude balloons placed in the stratosphere at an altitude of about 18 km (11 mi) to create an aerial wireless network with up to 4G-LTE speeds. It was named Project Loon, since even Google itself found the idea of providing Internet access to the remaining 5 billion population unprecedented and "loony"
http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/14/technology/net-neutrality-repeal-explainer/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality
The fight for the future of the internet just came to a head.
The Republican-led Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to repeal Obama-era net neutrality protections. The repeal passed along a party-line vote.
Ajit Pai, the FCC chairman appointed by President Trump, has framed the repeal as getting the government to "stop micromanaging the internet."
The move is supported by the telecom industry, which claims existing regulations threaten to hamper broadband investments and innovation.
Technology companies and consumer advocacy groups have loudly protested the repeal effort for months, both online and offline, arguing it could spell the end of the internet as we know it.
Here's what it all means and what's really at stake.
WHAT EXACTLY IS NET NEUTRALITY?
The net neutrality rules were approved by the FCC in 2015 amid an outpouring of online support. The intention was to keep the internet open and fair.
Under the rules, internet service providers are required to treat all online content the same. They can't deliberately speed up or slow down traffic from specific websites or apps, nor can they put their own content at an advantage over rivals.
To take a classic example, this means Comcast can't just choose to slow down a service like Netflix (NFLX) to make its own streaming video service more competitive, nor can it try to squeeze Netflix to pay more money to be part of a so-called internet fast lane.
As Michael Cheah, general counsel at video site Vimeo, previously told CNNMoney: the point of the rules is "allowing consumers to pick the winners and losers and not [having] the cable companies make those decisions for them."
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/15/16780564/net-neutrality-is-dead-what-happens-next
This too is something Trump wants so he can limit and attack content and the media.
Possibly it will effect Twitter ( limiting content and throttling the content ) and then he will be messing his own pipeline up.
Google if they launch their Free Internet Access ( LOON ) for everyone it will suppress all this noise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Loon
Project Loon is a research and development project being developed by X (formerly Google X) with the mission of providing Internet access to rural and remote areas. The project uses high-altitude balloons placed in the stratosphere at an altitude of about 18 km (11 mi) to create an aerial wireless network with up to 4G-LTE speeds. It was named Project Loon, since even Google itself found the idea of providing Internet access to the remaining 5 billion population unprecedented and "loony"

http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/14/technology/net-neutrality-repeal-explainer/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality
The fight for the future of the internet just came to a head.
The Republican-led Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to repeal Obama-era net neutrality protections. The repeal passed along a party-line vote.
Ajit Pai, the FCC chairman appointed by President Trump, has framed the repeal as getting the government to "stop micromanaging the internet."
The move is supported by the telecom industry, which claims existing regulations threaten to hamper broadband investments and innovation.
Technology companies and consumer advocacy groups have loudly protested the repeal effort for months, both online and offline, arguing it could spell the end of the internet as we know it.
Here's what it all means and what's really at stake.
WHAT EXACTLY IS NET NEUTRALITY?
The net neutrality rules were approved by the FCC in 2015 amid an outpouring of online support. The intention was to keep the internet open and fair.
Under the rules, internet service providers are required to treat all online content the same. They can't deliberately speed up or slow down traffic from specific websites or apps, nor can they put their own content at an advantage over rivals.
To take a classic example, this means Comcast can't just choose to slow down a service like Netflix (NFLX) to make its own streaming video service more competitive, nor can it try to squeeze Netflix to pay more money to be part of a so-called internet fast lane.
As Michael Cheah, general counsel at video site Vimeo, previously told CNNMoney: the point of the rules is "allowing consumers to pick the winners and losers and not [having] the cable companies make those decisions for them."
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/15/16780564/net-neutrality-is-dead-what-happens-next