All the news over net neutrality is wonky, jargon-heavy, and — if we’re honest — reports about the impending changes leave readers with more questions than answers.
But there’s one taboo topic that really puts things into perspective: pornography.
The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision Thursday to repeal the Obama-era net neutrality rules, which barred internet service providers (ISPs) like Verizon and Comcast from giving preferential treatment to some content over others, could drastically impact America’s jaw-dropping porn consumption.
In 2016 alone, Pornhub viewers watched 4,599,000,000 hours — which equates to 5,246 centuries — of pornography, according to the website’s data. Viewers also used 3,110 petabytes of bandwidth, most of which was consumed freely.
But all that could really change without net neutrality in place, as Mashable reported.
Moving forward, ISPs will be able to control what consumers have access to, which could put an end to — or at least severely slow down — the free availability of copious amounts of pornography.
Porn, it should be noted, is certainly not in jeopardy of disappearing. Instead, the undoing of net neutrality could just make accessing smut more expensive — especially for the millions of Americans who have never paid a dime for it — because ISPs will now have the option of charging users large sums of money in order to stream the explicit content.
Full story at IJR.
That would be a good result. A bad result would be having to pay for good sites.
Or we could just read a book or something….
No wonder so many are so upset!
We need good, strong laws once again, in our country, against pornography, and obscenities of all sorts! And all the churches should teach and preach Christan morality, and put strong presure on the public, against filth and sin!! Our country became far too corrupt in the filthy “hippie” 1960s! Generations since the filthy 1960s, have been paying a horrific price, for their filthy sins!! Life is a big responsibility– to God, to your family, to your community, and to your country!
I read a horrible news story today, of a woman who complained to airline flight attendants, because the passenger she was sitting next to on her flight, was viewing child pornography on his computer! The flight attendants just told the upset woman, that there was nothing they could do, about this situation! The woman also warned, that the man may be involved in sex trafficking! But the flight attendants just told the lady, they could do nothing— and to just write a complaint letter, and send it to the airlines, after the flight was over! I think that the airplane should have made a big stop at the nearest airport, called police, and had the man de-planed and arrested!
The irresponsible airline company in this recent news story, was Delta– not sure if Cal-Catholic will print the name.