jonbronson

California has announced they plan to.

You have it backwards. These companies can benefit financially from the repeal. But that's short-sighted, and they know it. Innovation will suffer without Net Neutrality, and these companies are more worried about that long-tail loss than any short-term windfall that this would cause.

We have years worth of instances of telcoms already trying to throttle and filter traffic to their choosing. They were blocked each time. So we know exactly what they will do now that they are legally off the hook.

Accurate. It's bizarre that a large segment of the country considers these things "differences of opinions" or merely politics.

The lawsuits have already started. The lawsuits will be covered by consumer interest groups, tech blogs, and tech news sites. So we will in fact be hearing a lot about this for the foreseeable future.

Net Neutrality is the default position, so in a sense has always existed from the inception of the internet. Only within the last 10 years have telcoms begun a series of intentional efforts to begin throttling, and manipulating traffic in a way that falls outside of the bounds of Net Neutrality.

There's literally nothing partisan about this topic. The technical and academic worlds are virtually unanimous on the support of net neutrality. Even political support for net neutrality is around 83% across both parties. Don't shut down discussion because you personally feel ashamed that your party is complicit in this thing. It's not political.

Start a kickstarter/gofundme. I'll contribute.

The author writes "Human children don’t need such explicit and extensive training to learn to recognize a household pet."

This claim seems dubious. Study's have shown humans can react to visual stimuli in as little as 1-3ms. If a child observes a cat in the room for only 10 seconds, that's already between 3,000 to 10,000 samples from various perspectives. While our human experience may describe this as a single viewing 'instance', our neurons are actually getting an extensive, continuous training. Is this accounted for in the literature?