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...
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Verizon Unlimited plans that have come out since Trump has been President are throttled after 25GB.
sounds like your problem lies with you town and/or county then.
funny... these rules have only been around since 2015... I don’t remember armageddon before then.
True, conversations generally doesn’t last very long before they end up there!
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.
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.
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.
Except for the fact that the last mile of internet connection consists of locally granted monopolies, your comparison is 100% correct!
ROFL!!! Dammit man, you need to warn people before you post humor like that. I damn' near spewed my bourbon all over my monitor!
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.
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.
Spectrum/Charter is 60mbs but not capped
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.
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.
Play cards, read a book, take a hike, do some snogging, etc.
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