John Oliver crashes the FCC. Maybe they should have paid more for higher server loads.

[deadsong]

John Oliver Helps Rally 45,000 Net Neutrality Comments To FCC
by ELISE HU
June 03, 201411:56 AM ET

Things are running smoothly now, but the Federal Communications Commission's public commenting system was so waylaid by people writing in on Monday that the agency had to send out a few tweets saying "technical difficulties" due to heavy traffic

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[shortsweetcynic]

not just you. this was one of the best segments i've ever seen.

[blackjedii]

It makes me happy that so many people are doing something but

10-1 the FCC and cable companies will let the furor die down, wait another 6 - 8 months and try to pass anti-net neutrality again.

Srsly it pisses me off something awful. our ex-Congressperson was probably one of THE biggest supporters of it before the Tea Party wave of 2010. Where he was replaced by an asshole who thinks that net neutrality is censorship and believes in companies being able to ~*make a profit*~ I think half the problem is that no one even understands what net neutrality IS and the lobbyists and company get to frame it as evil socialism. -.-

[deadsong]

Oh, these poor downtrodden ISPs, being bullied by these horrible socialist business owners who use up all their precious bandwidth and don't give them the money they deserve for using more of it! Who will ever protect these precious, defenseless ISPs?

...you know, the same ISPs who are already charging customers for data speeds on a tiered system where you pay more if you want faster internet, and often don't have any options for other, cheaper service providers in limited market areas. So basically they're trying to make businesses pay for a product that's already paid for. Customers already paid to have their content delivered to them at X speed for Y price. You don't get to demand that someone else pay for that a second time.

[astartexx]

Customers already paid to have their content delivered to them at X speed for Y price.

This, this, this.

[deadsong]

Isn't it illegal to charge a separate customer (the business owners) for a product/service that's already been paid for and delivered to another customer (the broadband clients)? Or will they just claim the cost has gone up and they're splitting it between the two classes of customers?

[mercystars]

I keep forgetting about this show, is it any good?

[deadsong]

I don't know. I keep forgetting, too, even though I've always liked him on The Daily Show. I just ran across that while wandering down the internet wormhole.

[lovedforaday]

it's okay. it's a lot like the daily show except with uncensored cussing, fewer interview segments, and a slightly more international slant. his segment on the death penalty is the one thing so far that i would say is a must watch.

[clevermanka]

Gold star to OP for that subject line.

[deadsong]

<3

...on a more serious note, though...companies and organizations already do pay more to their service providers for higher server capacity, bandwidth, etc. While bandwidth and such are infinitely cheaper than they used to be (I remember 10 years ago having to pay $70 a month just to host a moderately popular webcomic that only got about 5,000 views a month, serving images that were about 250kb each, because that was considered exorbitant enough to need a private virtual server--while now I pay $14.99 a month for unlimited everything)--right, starting over. I'm horrible about parenthetical asides like that. While bandwidth and such are infinitely cheaper than they used to be, as companies grow they do end up paying more for higher capacity, availability, and reliability with automatic failover services, etc. so that they don't lose customers who may never come back when they get the dreaded "This website has exceeded its capacity/allocation/etc." error for hours at a time--if they even see that and not some other server error. Major

[ladycyndra]

Not strange at all, OP. XD

[deadsong]

<3 It's the accent. Except I know it's not, because I'd totally take Jon Stewart and/or Stephen Colbert. Snark + brains = love potion, for me.