FCC approves net neutrality!

[Tell]

http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/26/fcc-net-neutrality/

What would have happened if they voted No:

Well let's say your service provider is Comcast. Comcast owns NBC Universal and a bunch of other entities. If you want to stream some SNL clips from Hulu (with commercials), Comcast will pass it through at full speed. But let's say you want to spend some time on your gaming forum. Comcast doesn't make any money off that, so they'll slow it down to the point where you'll get frustrated and say "fuck it, I'll just watch SNL clips on Hulu."

And the worst part is, because of the way the networks work, this won't just affect their own customers but anyone downstream also trying to access the gaming forum.

Anyways,

[Vinyl]

So hella

Spoiler:

[cats]

The only thing that's changed is that people on the internet will be disproportionately happy for a small period of time.

[Tau]

Yeah. Soon it'll be back to our usual collective bitterness and memeslinging.

Speaking of, how does one patch KDE2 under FreeBSD?

[Ivan2006]

The only thing that's changed is that people on the internet will be disproportionately happy for a small period of time.

That's kinda the point.
That things have, in fact, not changed, although there was a dangerously high chance of them changing.

[Solar112]

We just need to survive the impending lawsuits.