{"id":34181,"date":"2009-10-28T08:44:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T12:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=120816"},"modified":"2009-10-28T08:44:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T12:44:02","slug":"this-is-what-it-sounds-like-when-net-neutrality-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/34181","title":{"rendered":"This is what it sounds like when Net Neutrality dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/net-neutrality.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/net-neutrality-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"net-neutrality\" title=\"net-neutrality\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-120817\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/tag\/net-neutrality\/\">Net Neutrality argument<\/a> is fairly nebulous for the average user but this image from a Reddit reader shows the effects of the law in a way everyone can understand. If you&#8217;re tired of paying tiered pricing for stuff like cable and Internet access, how would you like to pay tiered pricing for the websites you visit. Want to watch Hulu? Add $10. Need eBay, even for a month? $5, please. <\/p>\n<p>While this is obviously a worst case scenario, this sort of bundling is a favorite pastime of most stream providers. For years voicemail was a privilege, not a right, and there are still grannies out there renting phones from the phone company. While month-to-month the costs might not seem like much, this sort of thing adds up to delicious profit. [via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/pics\/comments\/9yj1f\/heres_a_new_scenario_i_just_created_illustrating\/\">reddit<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/KVBo9cpMJiiWCoAG-pFo-VxFh6s\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/KVBo9cpMJiiWCoAG-pFo-VxFh6s\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/KVBo9cpMJiiWCoAG-pFo-VxFh6s\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/KVBo9cpMJiiWCoAG-pFo-VxFh6s\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=hfSNRR4ihrI:LuH-grf5zKQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=hfSNRR4ihrI:LuH-grf5zKQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=hfSNRR4ihrI:LuH-grf5zKQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=hfSNRR4ihrI:LuH-grf5zKQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=hfSNRR4ihrI:LuH-grf5zKQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Net Neutrality argument is fairly nebulous for the average user but this image from a Reddit reader shows the effects of the law in a way everyone can understand. If you&#8217;re tired of paying tiered pricing for stuff like cable and Internet access, how would you like to pay tiered pricing for the websites [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}