Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
Then he goes on to describe ISPs as evil. Pristine superciliousness is when he doesn't understand something yet moralizes about how much better he is.

Here is the kicker man: ISPs are evil.


Why would I say such a thing?


EFF Highlights How ISPs Are Lying To Californians To Try And Kill New Broadband Privacy Protections
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...tections.shtml


AT&T Tricked Its Customers Into Opposing Net Neutrality
https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneu...utrality.shtml


The FCC Has To Remind ISPs Not To Spend Taxpayer Subsidies On Booze, Trips To Disney World
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...ey-world.shtml


I had to dig up this article specially for you
https://web.archive.org/web/20080202...10_002683.html


because:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2...10_002683.html


PBS is a part of the government. have you heard they started scrubbing climate change data from there? Turns out it wasnt the only thing they were scrubbing.




Inserted advertising
https://techcrunch.com/2007/06/23/re...d-advertising/


They will sell your browsing data (buhbye privacy lolz)
https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/31/1...owsing-history


American carriers can refuse to improve infrastructure and augment capacity without the fear of losing customers.
http://blog.level3.com/open-internet...net-middleman/


Verizon have worked hard to keep this status quo by preventing the FCC from doing its job.
http://gizmodo.com/5845654/verizon-a...trality-ruling


Americans hate all of their ISPs (with the possible exception being google fiber)
http://www.slate.com/articles/busine...companies.html


An ISP was injeecting affiliate links into browsers (to earn dat affiliate money yo)
https://erichelgeson.github.io/blog/...avior-and-won/


Marsha Blackburn is their best friend
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news...ipal-Broadband






I can keep going