U.S. appeals court strikes down net neutrality. (Off-Topic)

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 18:09 (4044 days ago) @ ShadowOfTheVoid

What's really nice is even if you don't live in the US, this can still affect you. This sets an example/gives an excuse for other countries considering doing this. A lot the equipment and connection that make up the Internet, especially the fastest, widest, highest-bandwidth parts of it, passes through the US. There's also a lot of that that's in non-national areas (undersea cables and satellites, really) but controlled by American companies, so this could slow down/mess with your connection regardless (especially if you live close to the US). Plus of course tons of websites are in the US (and more have most or all of their connection routed through it), and they could feel the pain of this, along with their users the world over-- of course, this would probably be more of a problem for smaller sites, which just makes it worse.