Letter to FCC chairman Tom Wheeler

Been a while since I wrote anything. I suppose it is too easy to get distracted by other shiny things but I need a place to put these thoughts in public. Sorry for it not being "database" related but this is something that needs to be said and at least in some ways it is a unique point of view. Here's the letter I just sent to FCC chairman Tom Wheeler in response to the latest _suggested_ changes to how the internet should be setup.

As context I did a quick search on "fcc net neutrality" and found this article on a petition against the proposed changes.

And this one encouraging the POTUS to push the FCC to regulate the ISP's as "Common Carriers". 

Doing so will allow the FCC to regulate them the same way they do for phone, electricity, etc. The Internet is a utility now not a luxury.

===Begin Letter===
I'm a work from home programmer who enables others to work from home. A key factor in how the people who service our customers do their work is the ability to make and take VOIP calls and access our customer's support applications.
I regularly have to "bypass" the throttling that my ISP does by using a personally purchased Virtual Private Network (VPN) service. When I work using the VPN my bandwidth is fine, without it, I often can't do my work. This is the same connection in both cases but the traffic just looks different because they can't look inside it when I use the VPN.
I get similar behavior with movie streaming (fine with VPN, barely usable without), monitoring my nanny cams, etc. You can't tell me that your new ruling won't affect my service. These quality of service (QoS) throttles started only days after the Supreme Court ruled against the previous policy.
THAT ISN"T A COINCIDENCE!
If it were then my using VPN service (something our contractors likely can't afford) wouldn't improve things.
Making them "provide a base level of service" is a fine statement but without enforcement and oversight it won't happen. As an amateur radio operator (KF4MOS) I know that the FCC can't enforce the laws keeping rogue broadcasters in check. Keeping a large corporation in check who wants to hide their unfair business practices is basically a fox hunt for WMD's with lots of red herring about.
The Supreme Court said that the previous policy wasn't wrong, just done under the wrong umbrella. Go back and do it right. Please. If you don't then you _will_ be affecting many peoples ability to work from home and indeed make a living.
===End Letter===

I encourage you to reach out to:
Tom.Wheeler@fcc.gov
Chair Tom Wheeler Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20554

We all have our stories so reach out by both email and a letter. Yeah I know it sucks to go to the post office but he needs to see our response in both ways.

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