Timothy Lochner

Here's my shot: when AT&T announces their new Tweetar service, it means they can't limit Twitter to 5kbps to ensure their "service stability."https://twitter.com/crucially/status/933067589529432064 …

The issue is compounded by the fact that you don't get to choose your ISP most of the time. So if Comcast throttles a service you like, but AT&T doesn't, and AT&T doesn't service your area, you're stuck.

Exactly, the answer is to switch provider, except you can’t. Net neutrality doesn’t solve that, it’s a smoke screen. Also doesn’t apply to cell service.

Sure it does. Some cell service providers have towers in places others don't. I'm from Alaska and we didn't even have AT&T until late 2000s. Not even sure if Sprint or Verizon are up there (I moved away). There are local carriers.

And you can't argue that because a circumstance doesn't affect a percentage of internet traffic it therefore doesn't matter. It still matters. FWIW, I don't think Title II is the best solution, but I'd rather refine regulations than remove them wholesale.

The people I've read in the last few months supporting this all attack the same edge arguments. Provider availability. Rural adoption. Tiered pricing. But I have yet to hear a response to my concern. (1/?)

Remember Musicnet and Pressplay? You still can't, here in 2017, watch a PPV event on your computer. I remember my mind being blown that GMail offered me 1GB of email when RoadRunner was giving me 5MB!! (2/?)

I had DirecTV TiVo. The TiVo forums less than a year after we got ours were flooded with Comcast and TWC customers saying "CableCard isn't actually supported" and that was only even *possible* because the FCC dragged them kicking and screaming. (3/?)