I don’t trust non net neutrality - seems sinister

@DownTheStreet It wasn't needed prior to '14 - net neutrality was established to counter the unscrupulous plans then being forged by some of the major players in the field. Ajit Pai, the corporate stooge now running the FCC, has used his position to reinvigorate those unscrupulous plans.

@VeronicaPrincess oh the evil corporation thing, I see the quality of the argument. Corporations built the Internet, expanded it, introduced broadband...but hey it's just part of a decades long ploy to steal our liberty I guess.

They’ve gotten us hooked like crack users and now are going to gouge us even worse. @VeronicaPrincess

@jackjjackson I have an idea -- turn it off. No one is forcing you. Take some responsibility and stop blaming "them"

@DownTheStreet As cliche as it sounds, yes.

@DownTheStreet I actually work close to this business... It's amazing and appalling what kind of plans I get to see... And how often I have to point out how unethical and illegal those plans are...

Of course that’s a strategy however doing that makes one useless in the workforce. @DownTheStreet

I bet they don’t listen do they. Keep it up and they will fire you. However I’m glad you’re fighting the good fight. @Tracos

@DownTheStreet It can't be "turned off". Life, as we now know it, requires internet. You can toss you phone and dump your ISP, but the web still prevails as the world's primary means of disseminating information.

@VeronicaPrincess so it's just on or off is it? The assumption that virtually all Internet use is somehow essential? Really. You couldn't live without say 50% of it? 75%?

@DownTheStreet Unless you're payed in, and pay with, [b]cash[/b], always, your transactions are online, whether you realize it or not. Not to mention all the cameras recording your movements (in parking lots and on stop lights, for example). The web is all around us.

@DownTheStreet the only way you can live without internet is if you live outside society...

Every new car you buy is connected... Your phone by nature, your tv... Before long everything that has a light in it is connected... The Internet of things is real and moving really fast....

People are getting Amazon Alexa's, Google homes and the apple home are not exceptions anymore....

@Tracos without or less? Your choice to buy alexia, go ahead if you want something listening to you all day in your house. So is the government to save us from the Internet? Or maybe we should regulate Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Netflix -- because aren't these evil corporations simply making is Internet addicts and therefore prey for the providers?