“What saddens me the most today is that the agency that is supposed to protect you is actually abandoning you.”

P.M. Roanhouse
Editorial Opinion

While not codified into law by the government until 2014 network neutrality was the underpinning of a gentlemen’s agreement at the start of the internet as a commercial venture after then Senator Al Gore helped write the legislation that took the military Darpa Net and Educations university network system into what would become the internet we know today. No provider […]

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Why There Is A Political Right Vs Left War Over Broadband Title II Reclassification

P.M. Roanhouse
Culture / Editorial Opinion / Internet Culture / Tech Politics

Those who beat a drum for deregulation while on the take from legacy big business don’t care about the issue of broadband monopolies. They have made this a buzzword 24 second news clip Right vs Left debate. Further showing the republican party dragging the worst performing and actually laziest congress in the history of the United States into a further […]

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FiOS customer shows Verizon does serious throttling shenanigans with Netflix

P.M. Roanhouse
Culture / Internet Culture / Internet Services / Tech Politics / Technology / Technology Policy / Televisions

FiOS subscriber Colin Nederkoorn, a startup CEO who resides in New York City, pays for FiOS Internet that promised service of 75 Mbps download and 35 Mbps upload. However, his Netflix video streams were limping along at just 375 kbps (0.375mbps). Which is about only 0.5 percent of the speed he’s paying for.  So on a lark he decided to connect […]

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Verizon just got caught lying their pants off about purposely slowing Netflix speeds

P.M. Roanhouse
Culture / Internet Services

American multinational telecommunications and Internet service provider company Level3, is siding with Netflix in posting a letter from Level3’s Mark Taylor. In it they show how Verizon has just opened itself up to a world of hurt. It goes to show  proof that Verizon is purposely throttling Netflix’s service to end customers who are on Verizon. This is something big, proof […]

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