Net Neutrality died. 1 year later US broadband speeds increase.

[tangor]

With gigabit expanding across the nation, fixed broadband speeds in the United States are rapidly increasing. Speedtest® data reveals a 35.8% increase in mean download speed during the last year and a 22.0% increase in upload speed. As a result, the U.S. ranks 7th in the world for download speed, between Hungary and Switzerland.

[speedtest.net...]
Just reporting the numbers. :)

[tangor]

This means your site gets there FASTER than ever before!

[martinibuster]

You are correlating two events that have no connection to each other.

The speed of broadband increased the year before, from 2016 to 2017 by 19%. [speedtest.net]

The speed of broadband has steadily been increasing and has NOTHING to do with repeal of Net Neutrality. That was the pre-existing trend already.


;)

[tangor]

Then again, the net was supposed to die, and that didn't didn't happen either. :)

[LifeinAsia]

Then again, the net was supposed to die, and that didn't didn't happen either. :)

Not quite. I believe the official prediction was that it would return to the stone age. But hand walking ACK/NACK tablets back and forth wouldn't actually kill anyone. Unless, of course, someone accidentally dropped one with a very heavy payload on someone else.

[JS_Harris]

I don't think speed was ever at risk with net neutrality dying, freedom was.

When Obama's admin took the net(ICANN) out from under US freedom of speech protections and handed control to a global consortium it opened the door for censorship, which we now see the major social media platforms doing arbitrarily and with political bias, because they can.

Soon you'll only be able to look at what these tech giants want you to and they'll tax or punish you if you insist on looking at other stuff, because they can.

Censorship ahead of the 2020 elections is at an extreme already, because they can.

[cbpayne]

When Obama's admin took the net(ICANN) out from under US freedom of speech protections and handed control to a global consortium it opened the door for censorship, which we now see the major social media platforms doing arbitrarily and with political bias, because they can.

What has any of that got to do with 'net neutrality'? Suggest you look up what net neutrality actually is. Nothing to do with freedom of speech and censorship!

[Essex_boy]

The speed of broadband has steadily been increasing and has NOTHING to do with repeal of Net Neutrality - Agreed, weird comment IMO

[tangor]

I suppose seeing that the web did not die and we have seen new speeds after the frantic frenzy of doom predictions is not a chuckle/hilarious is too obvious?

Approaching Death of the Internet's Second Anniversary.

Sometimes passion needs a bit of humor. :)

[JS_Harris]

The web didn't die? Try expressing an opinion that the platform doesn't agree with and see how quickly your voice is silenced.

[phranque]

Try expressing an opinion that the platform doesn't agree with

you can voice your opinion on your own platform on the web.

[tangor]

Okay, this was silly from the start (I started it back in 2018!) and it has come back around?

THE WEB CANNOT DIE! IT IS A HUGE MONSTER THAT WILL EAT US UP!

GOVERNMENTS WILL TRY TO CONTROL IT AND FAIL!

THE MARTIANS ARE COMING!

END OF DAYS!

Not. (sigh)

There's a lot of passion re: neutered net ... and few who actually look at what it really means ... for those in power and control. If fingers in ears there's no way to communicate those issues.

Seriously ... this was a HUMOR post from 2018!

Can a mod close this?