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Net neutrality is dead
https://nypost.com ^ | 12/14/2017 | Reuters

Posted on 12/14/2017 10:54:49 AM PST by 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...

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: ajitpai; fcc; netneutrality
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To: Major Matt Mason
This is a lie. Obama's rules did no such thing, and this has already been proven.

Verizon Unlimited plans that have come out since Trump has been President are throttled after 25GB.

81 posted on 12/14/2017 12:14:22 PM PST by IamConservative (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.)
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To: Max Tactical

sounds like your problem lies with you town and/or county then.


82 posted on 12/14/2017 12:30:08 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Max Tactical

funny... these rules have only been around since 2015... I don’t remember armageddon before then.


83 posted on 12/14/2017 12:31:44 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: heterosupremacist
The US Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines Thursday to repeal landmark 2015 rules aimed at ensuring a free and open censoring the internet, setting up a court fight over a move that could recast the digital landscape.
85 posted on 12/14/2017 12:40:14 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: beergarden

True, conversations generally doesn’t last very long before they end up there!


86 posted on 12/14/2017 12:44:00 PM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: ConservativeMind
Yeah! Now ComCast will tell me, "Nice Amazon feed you got there-- I can make sure you continue to receive it without buffering for only an additional $10/month."

Look for your ISP to rape your wallet while offering "discounts" on their own bundled services.

It's one thing to support free markets, it's another thing to open a market to restraint of trade by monopoly abusers.

89 posted on 12/14/2017 1:03:58 PM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: G Larry
By striking it down, providers will be able to provide increased performance for those willing to pay.

Really? When there's no requirement whatsoever for increased performance?

Here's what's actually going to happen: every user of a streaming service like Netflix or Hulu or Amazon not tied to AT&T or ComCast or their ISP will be forced to pay more to receive the same quality of service.

In the name of "free" markets, we will all be charged more for the same service by monopoly abusers.

90 posted on 12/14/2017 1:07:12 PM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: Poison Pill
LOL-- absolutely correct. Look for an immediate slow down of subscription services unless you pay more to ComCast and AT&T for the same level of service you have now.

The celebration of removing net neutrality here is pretty close to the same mindless ideological barking you see at NRO about the glories of "free trade" with China.

91 posted on 12/14/2017 1:10:31 PM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Except for the fact that the last mile of internet connection consists of locally granted monopolies, your comparison is 100% correct!


92 posted on 12/14/2017 1:12:02 PM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: Poison Pill
No one stands for innovation, customer service and value like Comcast and AT&T.

ROFL!!! Dammit man, you need to warn people before you post humor like that. I damn' near spewed my bourbon all over my monitor!

93 posted on 12/14/2017 1:13:32 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: pierrem15
When there's no requirement whatsoever for increased performance?

That's what the market is for. If your provider is screwing you silly, you drop it and look for another. I think ditching net neutrality will spur competition, not stifle it. But even if it doesn't, the Constitution doesn't guarantee folks cheap internet.

94 posted on 12/14/2017 1:16:42 PM PST by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: All

Again, I’d like to play devil’s advocate since nobody answered my question. I’d really like an answer to the question if whether providers will now do what Obama claimed they’d do with:

,,,rules barring service providers from blocking, slowing access to or charging more for certain content.


95 posted on 12/14/2017 1:28:00 PM PST by JerseyDvl ("If you're going through hell, keep going.")
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To: IamConservative
The rules for Obama's "Net Neutrality" have been in place until now, so, as stated, this happened under Obama's scheme. There was nothing in Obama's phony rules that prevented companies from throttling service.
96 posted on 12/14/2017 1:29:37 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (The U.S. Senate - where American freedom goes to die.)
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To: heterosupremacist

Spectrum/Charter is 60mbs but not capped


97 posted on 12/14/2017 1:35:21 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

You pay for the highest speed available, not the highest speed possible. Government control makes it financially unfeasible for cable companies to increase speed without increasing costs.


98 posted on 12/14/2017 1:38:41 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (Islam is Satans finest work.)
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To: heterosupremacist

The appeal to democracy is a red herring. Communism and all other forms of tyranny are based on democracy, the rule of the majority. Federalism protects the rights of the minority against the will of the majority. I have absolutely no interest in living in a democracy.


99 posted on 12/14/2017 1:45:05 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (Islam is Satans finest work.)
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To: Pete Thomas
And when the planes are grounded?

Play cards, read a book, take a hike, do some snogging, etc.

100 posted on 12/14/2017 1:51:47 PM PST by onona
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