net neutrality law being revoked

Sigh.....running a small business these days seems to be an up hill battle. The very people this will most affect are so busy working 7 days a week to stay in business, this kind of stuff just goes un-noticed until it's too late.
 
Scary stuff. Hopefully the supreme court squashes this one. I know here in Canada our traffic does get throttled by some ISP's, but I don't think it's on a customer by customer basis.

I also wonder if the average florist would get affected by this given the volumes in play. I'll have to ask some of my nerdy friends in Washington to explain some practical day to day examples of it for small volume e-commerce.
 
I was thinking a lot of independent-speaking blogs and sites that are inconvenient to our government would just quietly go away. I REALLY am interested to know who introduced this and who pushed it. It would be easy to think it's google wanting to get more money but that isn't what I'd bet on.
 
It is being pushed by large telecom: At&T, Verizon, Comcast etc. I believe florists would be affected because large companies such as FTD could pay for premium access allowing consumers to reach their site more easily, while those of us who cannot afford premium access would be stuck in the nosebleed section with slower download times and more frequent outtages.
 
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Jamie do you really think the "slower" service would be so slow that someone doing fairly basic ecommerce would have speeds that end users wouldn't want to use? I think that's probably not how it will happen.

Most likely extremely high volume big players will get higher speeds to allow them to deal with huge volumes without blinking an eye. And that's surely unfair treatment (mind you they'll be paying for it). But I doubt the future of increased bandwidth availability means slower service for the rest of us. In fact everything about 3G, 4G and all wireline improvements leads me to believe that even if our service is slower than the big players, it's going to be light years faster than it is today.
 
the thing to keep in mind is, "fast" is a relative term, and while my broadband connection today is always much faster than 56k phoneline I used to use, sometimes I want to slam my head through the monitor when the internet is running "slow"

Also, you need to keep in mind that as internet speeds increase, content will become more intense so todays fast will be tomorrows slow churn.

The demise of net nuetrality will also open the door to restriction of search engines. Yes, I am sure Bing and Google will pay for premium access, but you will start seeing 15 paid listings at the top of a search instead of three.

While the sky may not actually be falling, I don't see a single benefit to small business.
 
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Ya I agree with all that. Here in Canada it's the internet securities act that is spooking everyone. Strange days we live in.

jamie said:
the thing to keep in mind is, "fast" is a relative term, and while my broadband connection today is always much faster than 56k phoneline I used to use, sometimes I want to slam my head through the monitor when the internet is running "slow"

Also, you need to keep in mind that as internet speeds increase, content will become more intense so todays fast will be tomorrows slow churn.

The demise of net nuetrality will also open the door to restriction of search engines. Yes, I am sure Bing and Google will pay for premium access, but you will start seeing 15 paid listings at the top of a search instead of three.

While the sky may not actually be falling, I don't see a single benefit to small business.
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