Net neutrality is dead

https://nypost.com ^ | 12/14/2017 | Reuters

[heterosupremacist]

WASHINGTON — The US Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines Thursday to repeal landmark 2015 rules aimed at ensuring a free and open internet, setting up a court fight over a move that could recast the digital landscape.

The approval of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposal marks a victory for internet service providers like AT&T Inc., Comcast Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc. and hands them power over what content consumers can access.

Democrats, Hollywood and companies like Google parent Alphabet Inc. and Facebook Inc. had urged Pai, a Republican appointed by President Donald Trump, to keep the Obama-era rules barring service providers from blocking, slowing access to or charging more for certain content.

Consumer advocates and trade groups representing content providers have planned a legal challenge aimed at preserving those rules...

[Major Matt Mason]

Here is a solid - and frightening - explanation of Net Neutrality, or more precisely, what Obama, Clinton, and the Left were trying to accomplish with their rules. Bit of a long read, but worth it. You'll have to click on the image to enlarge it.

[Osage Orange]

Why is Europe internet...so much cheaper and way faster than in the U.S.A.?

[G Larry]

Requirement???

That is a product of consumer demand!

I don’t watch streaming videos and I damn sure don’t want to subsidize yours!

Get it?

[Yaelle]

If any libs want to talk to me about this, I’ll just ask them what they’ve done about YouTube, Facebook and Twitter censoring conservative viewpoints.

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I asked a lib about just this today. Dennis Prager’s videos from PragerU are being censored and demonitized just for not being leftist views.

The response was that this content is “controversial” so the advertisers don’t want to be on it.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Can the story be correctly re-written?

"The approval of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposal marks a victory for internet service providers like AT&T Inc., Comcast Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc. and other smaller ISP's, who will not be forced to subsidize major content providers who use excessive bandwidth to deliver their products at the ISPs' expense.

"Democrats, Hollywood and companies like Google parent Alphabet Inc. and Facebook Inc. had urged Pai, a Republican appointed by President Donald Trump, to keep the Obama-era rules giving them subsidized Internet distribution and handing them power over what content consumers can access." :)

[G Larry]

Obama appreciates your endorsement of government controlled markets.

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality<

[Mr.Unique]

Google bad. Comcast good.

Freedom good. Competition good. Markets good.