[DigitalS3r4ph]

It's been a long ass time since I studied this for the net+ exam, but basically from what I remember, the entire infrastructure for what would become the start of the Internet was laid out by government funding through ARPANET for research purposes between universities and communication between military bases. It was initially laid out as an unsecure (by today's standards) telnet, spawning the need for TCP/IP protocols (big list of different pieces of software that tell the different components of the Internet how to do things, particularly in a fast and secure way).

Pretty much the simplest terms I can explain it to those who don't know the history of the internet, which is pretty blatant from what I've read from people's comments on here lol.

FCC's push for a "Fast Lanes" proposal is really bad news for enterprising Internet users and small business owners because it allows ISPs to create a tiered charging system for different speeds based on the type of content you are downloading. For example, Netflix is really against this because they are a stream - based network, and they're already being throttled like a new born baby trying to grasp for air. Imagine what Comcast could do with Carte-Blanche access to do whatever they want with regard to charging Netflix additional premiums to be able to utilize their infrastructure for streaming.

EDIT: Another thing worth mentioning is this would ultimately jack up prices to use said services from those providers. Secondly, this makes it harder for small business Joe Shmoe ISP startups to launch and provide cheaper services than Comcast because they as well could (and will) be charged to utilize their infrastructure to provide for customers.

After seeing what Google did to YouTube after the acquisition, imagine what kind of crazy shit we might run into with Twitch. Some of the people here that are posting what to expect after this are more or less on the right track. Moving to a different streaming site is easy for you to say as consumers, but for people who own twitch channels, that is not so easy. You basically have to completely rebuild your entire fucking user base to make as much money as before.

Basically this whole thing is about eliminating competition, jacking up prices, and controlling the flow of information. And there are still more reasons I haven't even begun to expound upon as to why this whole situation is fucked up rofl.

Just be a grown ass adult for once this time, contact your people, or welcome your new Internet Overlords. Lol

I'm also just going to be frank and say there needs to be a sticky about this posted by the admins.