User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Battle for the Net: Internet Slowdown/@comment-1387259-20140910215532/@comment-173.168.30.119-20140910225037

Meh, you're only a roach in the cauldron; problem is roaches breed like crazy and soon you have an infestation. What is going on here is "misrepresentation of proposed law for the goal of perpetrating hate against government agencies" nothing more, and nothing less. So when someone says "who cares about the FCC" they show an utter lack of understanding how much handholding the FCC has to do to keep the internet working.

Now yes, the "Anti-government" types like to claim that you can "open source" everything, including the internet... but then turn around and use the patent system to wait for "the work of hard engineers" to expire so they can act like they're creating rather than copying. Without the FCC, the internet/RF communications would be the wild west type lunacy with everyone bleeding into other people's bandwidth and creating problems; many things have been rejected due to strong considerations by engineers on how they'll affect existing systems.

Now why would certain sites be targeted? Slowing down SITE traffic won't stop piracy in the slightest (torrent traffic is peer to peer, a slight slowdown in getting peer info isn't going to do much), nor will it do anything against Tor or "Net Neutrality." Honestly, other than targeting porn sites, they don't have much they CAN do... until you consider antics like anonymous. Now realize that ISPs allocate a limited amount of bandwidth per unit area and this is due to REAL complexities in running a large scale network; so if someone thinks it is funny to try bringing down "Whocares.com", ISPs can quickly slow all traffic directed at the site and keep high bandwidth in a given area without resorting to deep packet inspection, or cutting the site off.



Why the FCC really wants slowdowns, I don't know... but it is pure ignorance to act like the current system is perfect and this is only to get at "freedom". "Freedom" is just a catch-all appeal to emotion; a meaningless appeal because the line is always moved around like crazy with no one agreeing on when things have gone too far.