Has enshittification noticeably increased across the entire Internet in the past 10 years? Yes.
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2025
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Would repealing the current net neutrality rules make enshittification even worse? Definitely. It would hand ISPs even more control over what we see, how fast we see it, and who gets prioritized, all based on, at best, who pays them more. You think the internet is shitty now?
It's a false dichotomy anyway, framing anyone concerned with net neutrality as a panic-driven alarmist, and anyone opposed to net neutrality rules as calm, rational, and intelligent. It's rhetoric designed to discredit one side without addressing its actual arguments.
I feel like that's more of an inevitable entropy kind of thing.
I absolutely adore her.
Surely she will win the 2028 Democratic Primary.
a man can dream.
Tech was better in 2015. It's all corporate squeeze now.
Remember when Google participated in the blackouts to protest SOPA and PIPA? How things have changed...
until trump's bitcoin setup is going to allow all of them to receive funds under the table.
That is 9 months of median Texas salary btw
Lol Ted Cruz still gobbling up scraps. Texas sure does love absolute weak ass politicians lol
Fun random Comcast fact: founder Ralph Roberts, famous for wearing a bow-tie (and infamous for other reasons) died in 2015. My then-boss, a Comcast veep, decided to wear a bow-tie to the memorial service. He was fired a week later. When an executive is fired at Comcast, they just instantly disappear around lunchtime and are never seen or heard from again or even mentioned by anybody. I'm not entirely certain they're not killed and dissolved in acid.
I haven't seen any of the predictions come true. Anyone else? I'm honestly a bit shocked. Anyone want to show us how the death of net neutrality hurt the internet?
Lots of ISPs block certain incoming ports.
Or all of them, thanks to CGNAT.
Some block outgoing ports too.
Nothing really changed because the rules havent been set in stone. It was reinstated in 2024 and then struck down by the courts with the new administration. Plus, California and other states have their own net neturalality which puts pressure for the rest of the states to continue to abide.
Tbh it was never going to have as big of an effect as many made it out to. Net neutrality is very much a good thing since not enforcing it just fuels monopolies, but many places don't have strict net neutrality rules and the internet is still alive there.
Though, a big thing preventing this are anti monopoly laws - companies won't pay to restrict access to competition because all it would do is get them broken up. So the worst that happens is sometimes preferential treatment when it comes to data limits.