And so it starts... Virgin Media in talks with content providers to offer better service - Bye bye net neutrality

Here we go, first company to fuck over net neutrality.

The new CEO of Virgin Media is putting his cards on the table early, branding net neutrality “a load of bollocks” and claiming he’s already doing deals to deliver some people’s content faster than others. If you aren’t prepared to cough up the extra cash, he says he’ll put you in the Internet “bus lane”.

What the fuck is wrong with people putting up with this? Here in Scandinavia ISPs are falling over themselves to offer faster and cheaper connections, no packet shaping, no bandwidth limitations, everything's flatrate. In the last couple years my ISP has DOUBLED my line speed without charging more, I started with 2mbit way back, then it was upped to 3, then 4 and around last year 8mbit and all that keepting the same price, hell it even got cheaper I think. Last month I downloaded (According to my newsreader) around 80 gigs, yes that's EIGHTY GIGABYTES and I have been doing around that pr. month the last 4 years at least, never heard a peep from my ISP, they just keep giving me more bandwidth, shit they even give us a free news server to leach from.

This is not only me, most of my friends do the same. Prices keep dropping, bandwidth keep increasing. What the fuck is wrong with the rest of the worlds ISPs that they constantly search for new ways to screw over thier own customers?

More here: http://torrentfreak.com/virgin-media-ceo-says-net-neutrality-is-a-load-o...

Also a good video explaining the situation here in case you are confused about what net neutrality is, and why this is important: http://stopvirgin.movielol.org/

If you can, please link the above site on as many places as you can, apparently youtube/google is in on this deal somehow because the videos about this on googlevideo and youtube are being marked as spam even when the video has over 30.000 subscribers by now, very fishy.
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