PornHub, OK Cupid, Imgur, DuckDuckGo, Namecheap, Bittorrent, and a bunch of other big sites have joined the Internet-Wide Day of Action for Net Neutrality on July 12 (Amazon, Kickstarter, Etsy, Mozilla, and Reddit were already on board.)

The issue is complex to say the least, and, unfortunately, rife with emotions and also politicized. It isn't right or fair for cable companies to keep one toe in the old non-a la carte model that should have been abolished years ago, and then another in the new streaming services model, that puts them at a footing with Netflix, and that affords them an opportunity to throttle their competitor's service to promote their own. Still, maintaining and creating new infrastructure is probably on par with keeping up the U.S. military. The costs are staggering. Something has to give. Title II is basically the regulation of "no regulations" and is the best we have atm, irregardless that it is 80+ years old (and honestly, can even be traced back to ancient Roman "carriage laws"..). There's just too much mis and disinformation out there on this subject, and I personally scoff at pieces such as John Oliver's, who finds the time to spend seconds on infrastructure, only to say, "cable companies will continue to spend money on it no matter the outcome.." Bullshit! The death of Google Fiber proves that wiring the entire gd country -- a 3rd time mind you -- is just monstrous. Most likely, the govt will have to take over the infrastructure, and it will be some semblance of what we currently have with utility companies: we'll have no choice, the user will pay a premium, but hey .. it'll be the same for all.

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