After 36, 000 comments against. The second-highest (Comcast–Time Warner merger) having less than 1,000, and the third-highest having a full two orders of magnitude fewer.
Stealing two links from Reddit, because I think they're useful. It probably won't do much good but might as well make your voice heard if you can. Call your rep, leave a comment, and encourage others to do the same.
What I don't understand about these priority lanes, is this: is it only problematic for American ISP users, or for the rest of the world as well? I assume hubski has an American host, does that mean that with these paid priority lanes, connections across borders will be throttled as well?
I don't believe so. A cross-border connection goes from the provider's Tier 3 ISP, up to a Tier 1 ISP, back down thru the other country's citizen's Tier 3 ISP. It's the consumer-facing Tier 3 ISPs in America which are violating Net Neutrality. Tier 1 providers are typically international and Net Neutrality generally benefits them. Big services like Netflix have business-grade service with their providers (often CDNs above Tier 3 level), which dictate upstream bandwidth as part of the contract.does that mean that with these paid priority lanes, connections across borders will be throttled as well?
I did some creeping. Hubski appears to be hosted by DigitalOcean, who say they have servers in "Amsterdam, San Francisco, New York, and Singapore". But their website says you "Select the best location," which leads me to believe there's a single static location. A traceroute leads me to New York. Though I can't guarantee people outside the US get the same route. I mean, I could, but I appear to have reached the limits of my curiosity.I assume hubski has an American host
Man, do I really want to keep doing my degree in this country? I'm getting to a point where I don't feel safe anymore. I mean, I'm already on a student visa, so I have pretty much no rights anyways, I feel like anything I say can and would be used against me.