I unsubscribed from Netflix due to their backtracking on Net Neutrality. If you are an engineer at any company I would suggest organizing a walk out if your company is abandoning a free and open internet.
I think it was Bruce Schneier who brought up the idea of digital feudalism. I want to own my data, and that is incompatible with the business of Netflix and Spotify.
Very sad about it, since both those services are very easy to use and I was experiencing more new film & music while subscribing than I am when not subscribed.
i never understood how people thought netflix was for net neutrality in the first place.
their whole argument was 'we are big, we desire special privilege to put pipes directly into the backbone for us', which would have been a competitive advantage.
what im saying is, the event that people say netflix stood up for net neutrality is when they were telling ISP's to allow netflix to build pipes directly into their backbones, and didnt want to pay for it.
and people were like hell yeah netflix, fight the good fight!
they weren't standing up to 'the man', they were asking for special privileges because they were big - they were already big at this point, not small
The leap of logic that brings you from net neutrality (that is - fully open free market where services compete) to "everything is poisoned by ads) is really baffling.
