It’s great news. Although several months ago, many Freepers didn’t see it that way, as you can probably discern from some of the comments in that old thread.
They were cheering on the government to step in and dictate how private enterprises manage their own network resources. ‘How dare these companies think that they have a say in how they manage their own assets and bandwidth resources! It’s ‘MY’ internet, after all...’ was the jist of it.
This was a win for Lady Liberty today, whether they understand or not.
My understanding of the net neutrality concept was that the internet providers are simply providing data, ie: 0’s and 1’s. And that as such, they had no business slowing down one set of 0’s and 1’s as opposed to another set, for all data is... is data.
Considering I pay my internet provider for 10Mps download speed, I’d consider it a breech of contract if they decided to slow down my download speeds depending on what site or information I download. But considering my internet provider is Comcast, the same provider who was slapped by the FCC for slowing down the download speed for anyone using bittorrent, it looks like they now have the go-ahead to restrict download speeds regardless of what the contract states.