More people will learn the techniques for hiding contents of data traffic and making interpretation of metadata hard.
It will be similar to the effects of authoritarianism. Those who get the privileges will stare baffled at you and ask why you're upset and the rest will have to lay low until they get their cartels and networks in order and mobilise some resistance. If they don't they get punished in nasty and sophisticated ways. See for example how certain muslim groups in western China are treated. This is what will come here sooner than anyone today expects, and implementations will be even more insidious and horrid than any practical ones in use today.
But it will also take some time. It won't happen overnight.
First we'll see some global corporations twist out more profits from their USA markets by segmenting them further and playing out things like status or race markers in their commercial communication and advertisements to a bigger extent than before.
Further down the line these changes affect culture and society and the originally commercial decisions turn into bigotry, stratification and hierarchies. Politicians will use racial slurs based on who can pay for what Internet services and how they have been marketed with markers of class, status, sex, race. Bigots will invent new ways to do it based on how they feel about being in the same market segments and feel left behind by the marketers.
It is about allowing companies having different prices for services aimed at different people, where the poor will be fed the impression that they pay very little and get very cheap bestest awesome deals yeah, even though they get sucky services for the same price or more as they used to pay. On a structural level it is a massive value transaction from the less fortunate to the very fortunate, as it is sometimes put. In reality we're all less fortunate and stuck on a tiny, inhospitable rock hurling through deadly emptiness that we've somehow managed to make even more inhospitable in just a few centuries.
Many politicians will use the issue to get elected or reelected, mainly by creating the illusion that this is an isolated issue and has more to do with quality of technical services than social stratification and justice, proponents of net neutrality and antagonists alike. It is more a question of what illusions are feasible among the voters they aim for than material factors.
So the response will be to develop secrecy, networking and resistance, slowly, cautiously. Because that's what mammals do when evolutionary pressure and material hostilities tighten up, with mice-like creatures being the early examples around the extinction of the dinosaurs.
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More people will learn the techniques for hiding contents of data traffic and making interpretation of metadata hard.
It will be similar to the effects of authoritarianism. Those who get the privileges will stare baffled at you and ask why you're upset and the rest will have to lay low until they get their cartels and networks in order and mobilise some resistance. If they don't they get punished in nasty and sophisticated ways. See for example how certain muslim groups in western China are treated. This is what will come here sooner than anyone today expects, and implementations will be even more insidious and horrid than any practical ones in use today.
But it will also take some time. It won't happen overnight.
First we'll see some global corporations twist out more profits from their USA markets by segmenting them further and playing out things like status or race markers in their commercial communication and advertisements to a bigger extent than before.
Further down the line these changes affect culture and society and the originally commercial decisions turn into bigotry, stratification and hierarchies. Politicians will use racial slurs based on who can pay for what Internet services and how they have been marketed with markers of class, status, sex, race. Bigots will invent new ways to do it based on how they feel about being in the same market segments and feel left behind by the marketers.
It is about allowing companies having different prices for services aimed at different people, where the poor will be fed the impression that they pay very little and get very cheap bestest awesome deals yeah, even though they get sucky services for the same price or more as they used to pay. On a structural level it is a massive value transaction from the less fortunate to the very fortunate, as it is sometimes put. In reality we're all less fortunate and stuck on a tiny, inhospitable rock hurling through deadly emptiness that we've somehow managed to make even more inhospitable in just a few centuries.
Many politicians will use the issue to get elected or reelected, mainly by creating the illusion that this is an isolated issue and has more to do with quality of technical services than social stratification and justice, proponents of net neutrality and antagonists alike. It is more a question of what illusions are feasible among the voters they aim for than material factors.
So the response will be to develop secrecy, networking and resistance, slowly, cautiously. Because that's what mammals do when evolutionary pressure and material hostilities tighten up, with mice-like creatures being the early examples around the extinction of the dinosaurs.