Net Neutrality

[StalinsThighs]

Hello all!

I haven't posted here much, and not for awhile, but this is important, so please hear me out. Net Neutrality is under attack in the United States.

The definition of Net Neutrality is "the principle that Internet service providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source, and without favoring or blocking particular products or websites."

This simply means that all data is equal, regardless of the source. If you wanted to watch a movie on Netflix, and then watched the same movie over on Amazon.com, or even a streaming site, the data flows at the same speed from all three of those sources, and cannot legally be slowed down or blocked.

 

But this principal is being struck down here in the US. Our FCC voted to remove it, and by August of this year, if nothing is done about it, Net Neutrality will be a thing of the past. Internet Service Providers such as Comcast will have free reign of your connection, and will be able to throttle or block it for any reason, and then charge you to have it returned to it's normal state. This is bad for both consumers, and for websites like RenX's. I don't know where Totem Arts is based, what your finances are like, or what ISPs will end up charging to restore normal connection speeds, but it will at the very least have an effect, if not make the website and the servers of the game unusable. Please, support Net Neutrality, whether or not you live in the US, because this likely will affect everyone in some way. If you are in the US, call your representative, call the FCC, join a march, or anything you can think of. If outside, every little bit of support helps. This could severely hurt the Command & Conquer community, and damage the internet if we don't do something. The FCC and their ISP backers are fighting tooth and nail to get this through, but there's still hope.